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In my debate class, I had the students reorganize the desks into a square and divide themselves into four groups based on their opinion of what shaped their personalities the most: genetics, family, society, or themselves. Roughly half the students choose family and the rest almost evenly divided themselves among the other three. This is not to say science should vote with their feet, but it isn’t all that surprising that Chinese kids would weigh their opinion so heavily towards the influence of family. I would contrast that with an article I read from the West, about how the generation gap may have been created by Western parents being too busy to raise their kids and letting their peers have more influence.