Comment by viccis

>When they lose (and especially when they lose to foreigners) they get extremely resentful and behave as if something has been taken from them.

I you even know how often I've heard students complain about "having my A taken away from me". It's insane, but it's also what to expect from a society just like you described who has been told that the point of school is to get good grades.

Now, a lot of students here are discovering that minmaxing to get a high GPA in a degree like compsci lands them firmly in jobless land if they failed to use those 4 years in an environment of learning to actually learn things. Doesn't even have to be from courses, things like student groups and competitions, research opportunities, etc.

Employers don't really want people whose sole interest is to do nothing and be rewarded for it.