Credential society is result of the interaction between social demand and educational expansion.

学历社会，是社会需求与教育扩张互动的产物。

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While condemning users of fake credentials on both legal and moral grounds, we somehow tend to sympathize with them as they are victimized by a society addicted to the credential mania.

虽然我们会基于法律和道德的理由去谴责这些购买和使用假冒文凭的人，但我们仍然会对他们怀有某种恻隐之心，因为他们也是这个唯文凭是论的国度的牺牲品。

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And a lot of these rules are arbitrary, and unstated. (One of the greatest arbitrary rules in our society is that you need a formal credential to be successful.) If you are creative, willing to take some risks, pick yourself up after some failures, and keep trying new approaches until you succeed, you can usually make your own game in life a wide open blue ocean with your own rules.

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