The argument seems more relevant to big city families than flyover states. I'm from Manhattan and the private school competition here is brutal only because the only other option for wealthy families is to send their kids to school with urban kids from less than desirable families who don't aspire to get into Harvard like they do.
I assume in affluent suburbs like the one Charis is living in, most public schools will be a pool from the same kids from wealthier neighborhoods so it's probably not that big of a concern for her. I don't really see the value in sending kids to private in a flyover state anyway... at least in NYC, your kid will be going to school with a dad who's a partner at a top 5 law firm or a kid whose mom owns a multibillion dollar hedge fun, or even in California, maybe your kid becomes best friends with someone whose dad co-founded the next big start-up. But what's the point in a flyover state? There aren't any more connections or networking that can be made than if the kid just did well at a nice public high school and got into a good college for better connections.
I grew up in the midwest and our public high schools were just as competitive as any good private school and we all got into decent colleges where we made bigger and broader networks for ourselves. I don't know if I'd feel the same having kids now in a bigger city like Manhattan. It's either pay 50k a year for private or have your kid go through a metal detector in public if you don't get zoned for the very few public schools that are still desirable.
Her husband's a doctor, he's obviously not an idiot. I'm sure he chose to buy a house in a good public district for their kids. And Chinese families who raise doctor sons are no joke.. I'm sure they did their research for all of this for their grandkids before letting their daughter-in-law go blow everything on designer bags. I once dated a Chinese doctor whose parents used to drive him 2 hours every single day, to and back, because he tested into one of the top 3 high schools in the state but they lived a few boroughs outside of it. They take this shit seriously.
And the whole Koreans getting plastic surgery to look white has been debunked over and over. This is an interesting article to read if you have the time:
https://www.businessinsider.sg/south-ko ... on-2018-6/. Korean beauty standards DO NOT align with western beauty standards at all. Koreans prefer flat cheek bones whereas westerners prefer the higher the better, and prefer slim jaw lines that end in a point at the chin, whereas westerners prefer more angular, square jawlines. Light skin and big eyes have been status symbols in Asian culture for hundreds of decades for their rarity and sign of wealth before white people decided to claim it as their own for superiority.
Charis and her beauty preferences are more aligned with Korean standards than western... she has a super pointy chin that Americans would find grotesque, and she's in her mid-thirties and still chooses to wear eye-enlargening circle lenses, which obviously Americans do not ever wear. Her make up style is also very, very, Korean with none of the strong contouring features that western make up style prefers. Korean make up is all about flattening and softening features out with eyes, glossy skin, and soft lips as the focus whereas western make up style is about amplifying your bone structure with baking your contours in and bold eye and lip colors while mattifying the skin to further emphasize those points.
Normally I wouldn’t judge anyone for having crooked teeth, especially if one couldn’t afford to, but this is super trashy. 
