Chinese students are ruthlessly pragmatic.*
Come on here and see a million threads of advice like 'Study what you love!!' 'Dont listen to your parents, follow your passion!!' 'Its important to study what you love, otherwise you wont give it your all!!'
Chinese kids:
Why would I study what I like? In school I had no choice, after graduation I am highly likely to get a job I dont fully like, so why should I not just maximise my career and earning potential by studying the right choice of degree?
Ask them if they will be more likely to drop out/not try.
They say:
Ofcourse I will try hard, you don't have to like something to stick at it, and try hard. Most of our adult lives/school lives we have to work on things we don't love, so why should university be an exception to this? Why all of a sudden at uni cannot not cope with working on something I don't like, even if I know its good for me?
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