When comparing different students, especially from different countries, one has to be careful as of which standards the students are being read.
The documentary was pretty biased in trying to say, 'AMERICANS HAVE IT EASY!' Academically, it's true that Americans have less pressure for school in general and they don't necessarily go to the same levels of math or other subjects as often as in other countries, but here we also have much lower stress levels and as mentioned about India how students don't generally deviate in what they do by a relatively early age, American students have more openings and opportunities to participate in a wider variety of activities, instead of solely in the biology or engineering departments.
The ideal audience fro this video seems to be Americans, focusing on the students and teachers. It clearly was calling for a more reformed education system in America, border-lining calling American education lazy and implying that there is little effort from the students; for example, the guy from the American high school said he never studied for the PSAT and didn't really try in much, academically speaking. The info concerning American students seemed limited, but in order to make a stronger point, they used their statistics well by giving only certain aspects of the spectrum.
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