Dear all,

I seem to have lost my fight for this question as it is getting closed for being too broad now. I appreciate that many people looked at the question and upvoted it (despite probably most being from Europe/US where such a situation would be really different). I thought some time about this question, read articles about Chile and I think something we could all (including me) learn is that Academia varies more than stated in the question

"Academia varies more than you think". That question describes different things in academia -- but all happening in functional universities without corruption. It's important to realize that not all universities are like that (there are universities where profs openly want money for good grades, universities where you become prof not for merit but for being in the right political party and so on). We all should keep this in mind before we downvote/comment a question with our Western

view. It's not too long ago that there was racial discrimination in Western universities and my gut feeling is that a question about that would have been treated in the same way.

That being said, I will leave this site for now:) Thank you all for interesting answers, questions, discussions -- it was a pleasure being here!:) I wish you all the best, you are doing a great job!:)