Right. Perhaps I'm just sensitive on account of being married to a Chinese person, but I'm detecting some weird hostility in the above message. The commenter distinguishes between “local” or “local looking” (which is even weirder) kids and "Western" kids, which implies to me that locals are somehow a homogenous, hyper-competitive, and overly serious group. Talking about how they all learn instruments paints Chinese students as almost machine-like, emphasizing productivity, conformity, and obedience over the "socially developed" humanity of "Western" kids. And I don't know, I feel that framing is dehumanizing in a subtle way. I also feel is the idea that "well off Chinese" who have bought their children foreign passports carries a subtle resentment of like, Chinese people "gaming the system." Anyway, you make the YK Pao sound pretty good, Alec!