Why does Asia have such a high rate of mental illness and suicide then? I know people who lived under that looming fear as children. Not all of them became successful. Even those that did spent their lives like they’re walking on egg shells about to explode.
Do you have a citation?
The thrust of your argument has two parts, both false:
1) People everywhere are basically the same. They are not. Whether this is genetic, environmental, or both remains to be seen. Europeans have the desire, and the ability, to exhibit mercy, which extends to child-rearing practices. East Asians have great difficulty with this.
2) Education is something that is given to you, or done to you, like a shot of penicillin or an operation. It is not. It is something you do. African children with very low IQs become educated simply by attending school in a Quonset hut with a few books. Public schools are spiritually devastating, which is why they should be abolished, but they possess sufficient resources that any child capable of education will easily become educated there.
“Why does Asia have such a high rate of mental illness and suicide then?”
I have no reason to believe their rate of mental illness is any higher than ours. Go into almost any modern college classroom and you’ll be SHOCKED at how many of the girls in that room are on anti-depressants. If their suicide rate is higher than it is for cultural reasons (i.e., there is no powerful religious underpinnings to their society opposed to suicide. Suicide is even viewed as virtuous in some cases).
“I know people who lived under that looming fear as children. Not all of them became successful.”
And how many who are not pushed as children become successful? Seriously, you don’t seem to grasp the obvious. Of course not every kid who is pushed becomes successful, but I bet the rate of success is lower among those kids who are not pushed. So what’s you’re point?
“Even those that did spent their lives like they’re walking on egg shells about to explode.”
And those who don’t succeed often spend their lives wondering why they didn’t succeed. Again, so what?