Why do Asians try to ace the test? As an Asian myself who have lived in South Korea, located in the far east asia next to Japan, for whole of my life 21 years, I do not know many westerners, since I did not hav many opportunities to meet them. However, what seemed to be strange is that they tend to put more weight on their extra curricular activities rather than on their academic work. When my Asian friends went home to take private lessons from tutors, western friends did somethings like club activities, or volunteering. I do not think this is the opinion I only have around me, since many media also handle this topic. What makes the difference between these two people? The first thing come to my mind was that back then in history in Asia, Confucianism ruled the Asia,except for Japan where the Samurai spirit is considered the most important, which laid much emphasis on Studying. The ruling class had a tendency to believe that physical activities were humble, so only low class could do excercise or farming. What the governing class did was only sitting behind the desk and reading or writing books, since the father of Confucianism, Confucius talked things only about the abstract things such as Tao or manners of people. However, in Western land, the case was little different. People there also had discussed things of Abstract world as Plato did. Moreover, the different opinion surrounding Christian belief made westerners divide and fight each other, requiring thousand of people's lives. However, Greeks put their feet on the ground(I want to tell that they were realistic, not likely to be fanciful.) and the thoughts of Greeks changed the way of thinking of people in western world, like the Renaissance did. This is the fraction of my thought and I do not want to make this piece longer than this. Enjoy my work and please give me comment or corrections, which are more than appreciated to me. Thank you in advance and have a nice day!!