On one side, the asians who love to work that "meritocratic" system.
On the other, the asians who both subscribe to &promote the social hierarchy of the distribution of civil liberties.
Any issue regarding the "fairness" with which one may or may not enter "university" is already unfair.
Like.
Duh.
The issues of equity, in this country, with regards to "higher education"
is an issue of the equity of the K-thru-12 public education system, in this country.
Oh wait, I'm sorry, those aren't schools,
those are the places where we corral our children
&murder them
at gunpoint
in the cold light of day.
Nothing screams powerlessness more loudly than
bickering.
The powerless bicker &bicker &complain
because they lack power
thus, obviously,
they shout into a void.
True Power does not need to announce itself.
Humans are social creatures.
We understand power dynamics.
To not-understand social dynamics is considered a human oddity.
&Those dynamics can be manipulated.
To the will of those who would overtly exercise their power.
Overt exercisers of power are villains, according to "them."
Covert or Reactive exercisers of power are heroes, according to "them."
&Again, True Power cannot go unacknowledged, secretly unknown, cannot wander anonymously.
&So, while existing in "known reality," the day-to-day of jobplace social interactions,
these days,
is rife with the power dynamics of humans jobbing together in the flesh,
the type of power dynamics that strain the already stressed social interactions of daily life,
which, if one is astute, can be played.
This behavior, however, is typically frowned upon.
Toying with people is, generally, frowned upon.
The point of responsible power-wielding being restraint, that one ought not use one's power,
unless absolutely necessary,
&obviously, for the "good," whatever that means.
&Obviously, there's no "good advice" about how to wield one's power.
Powerful people are few&far between.
Between what? You should never end a sentence with a preposition!
Powerful people are between Few &Far.
But the strain of socially interacting with cojobbers who want friends at their jobs
&those who are amicable but not affable is
tedious.
They bicker. They bicker that you're not friendly.
Being closed to friendship at a jobplace is, generally speaking, frowned upon.
Being befriended at a jobplace makes me frown.
&The most important thing that I realized, today,
while jobbing at my jobplace
is that power also grows, expands, shifts, &contracts,
because, these days, I don't even have to bicker to my higher-ups
about a goddamn thing,
for a simple line of questioning to the person in question about the problem in question
solves the problem.
&Honestly, it feels so good &so empowering to be silent.
I cannot simply run my mouth off about whatever or whoever, cause it will be listened to &looked into.
Power
the thing that everyone wants
but so few get
&of the few who can claim it,
even fewer competent wielders of it.