In the 1997 movie “Gattaca”, how far you could go in society was determined by your genetic profile. Impossible to fake, people who wanted to “cheat” the system were forced to use someone else’s profile to climb the societal rungs, hence the term “borrowed ladders”.
That same scenario has moved beyond science fiction and is currently being played out in China, where students are having their life-long files pilfered by dirty teachers, and sold to underachieving students to pass off as their own
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The files are irreplaceable histories of achievement and failure, the starting point for potential employers, government officials and others judging an individual’s worth. Often keys to the future, they are locked tight in government, school or workplace cabinets to eliminate any chance they might vanish.
But two years ago, Xue Longlong’s file did vanish. So did the files of at least 10 others, all 2006 college graduates with exemplary records, all from poor families living near this gritty north-central town on the wide banks of the Yellow River.
With the Manila folders went their futures, they say.
Local officials said the files were lost when state workers moved them from the first to the second floor of a government building. But the graduates say they believe officials stole the files and sold them to underachievers seeking new identities and better job prospects — a claim bolstered by a string of similar cases across China.
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Written by Jean Valjean
