Overseas Graduates are Better Than Local Graduates (A Critic to Local Culture)

I think you may agree with me that it's not true, however I notice that:

- Overseas graduates tend to be more preferable by employers

- Overseas graduates tend to get higher salary

Is it fair? it may be since overseas graduates pay more than local graduates (they invested more fund for their education).

Before I share my thought about overseas graduates who are better than local graduates, I would like to discuss about lifestyle of Indonesian households and some local business:

1. The household of families that can self-fund their children to tertiary education usually consist of parents, children, and helpers. The helper will help the family members to do things that need to be done in a household, such as washing dirty clothes, going out to buy things as instructed by the family members, cooking dishes, and so on.

2. There are local business to help people do things, for example:

- In Airport, when the passenger is claiming his baggage, there is a porter that comes to the passenger and offers help to take the baggage from baggage claim area to parking area or taxi area.

- As an alternate to renew or make a driving license in the police station or motor registry, an administration bureau can take care of it (it will save time to queue, do tests, and so on).

It's different with living overseas, in Indonesia people can get help in doing even simple tasks. The effects of this are:

1. People tend to depend on others.

2. People have less achievements since they did less, thus there are a lot that they can't do (because of the intermediaries).

Further effect of those is that people have less confidence that they can do even those small things by themselves. If they don't have confidence over the small things, how can they have confidence over the bigger matters.

Thus, I think that overseas graduates, who usually do things on their own and depend on their own abilities, will be able to do better than local graduates who depend on others a lot and not confidence with their own abilities.

It's all about confidence.