Competition is muted.
I doubt it. Children, as they go along through life, do go up against these comparison-situations, in which they discover that they are slow at reading, or slow at swimming, or slow at learning mechanical skills, or clumsy at games, or not so pretty, or whatever. In my own American upbringing, this was greatly magnified, with all manner of competitive games. In the village, a child is not forced into so many of these, but some are inescapable. Efforts are made to be kind to the losers.