Having worked with Asian-educated peers in entry-level IT, I can confirm that "can't think for themselves" is a literal truth, not hyperbole. People who had been doing my job for decades couldn't think of the obvious first steps to take when a fault occurred, nor could they understand why a much younger, American-educated individual like myself couldn't recite the Gettysburg Address from memory. This was MY history, after all, not theirs. What had I done all those years in school, then?

Meanwhile, the gaokao brain-eating virus is spreading to Harvard and Yale, from which we inexplicably continue to draw our national leaders in the political and corporate spheres.