It's strange, but many young chinese people also walk around with a chip on their shoulder. Must be the extreme repression and then subsequent unleashing into society.. But I agree, meeting in the middle would probably be most ideal!
I do wish I went through a foreign education system though, there are so many things I see kids in the west enjoy as kids growing up. Extra-curricular activities in China are usually quite limited because we just didn't have time outside of studying to do anything else.