Chinese parents believe their children should excel.
Chinese children try hard not to disappoint.
First of all, if you live under communism, you have no right to an opinion. As cancel culture shows us, once people are randomly criminalized for having an opinion other than the approved one, most people will self-edit their speech.
I once had an eye appointment and the eye doctor was not my regular one but a woman who also did eye exams at Fort Hood. She said the most frustrating thing for her was to give eye exams to Asian wives of soldiers because the women are raised not to have an opinion.
The eye doctor would put that big vision device in front of the patient’s face and ask ‘which one looks clearer - this or that?’ The Asian patient would say “They’re okay”.
“No,” she demanded, “This one or that one?”
“It’s fine really”.
“There’s no wrong answer here. Just tell me which one is clearer. This or that one?”
“They are both good”.
You can see how frustrating those exams must have been.