For teachers, I guess they’re the biggest figure for students as they grow up. Confucian culture emphasizes enormous respect, and tbf, conformity to teachers.

I grew up wanting to be a YouTuber, and now work as a professor somewhere in East Asia with deep Confucian influence. The teacher-student dynamics here is truly shit.

In terms of politics, yes. But we are better in almost every other aspect.

Comparing numbers is not whataboutism. That’s literally why numbers exist in the first place, to compare and count.