What is the grammar behind を being used in this sentence?

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今のような学歴社会をいいことだとは思っていない日本人もたくさんいる。

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 07 '22 at 15:39

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The structure of this sentence is AをBと思う, meaning "to think of A as B", "regard A as B" etc, where A is 今のような学歴社会 and B is いいことだ.

Putting it together we get something like:

There are a lot of Japanese who do not regard the current academically focused society as a good thing.

Note that I'm not 100% sure on my translation of 今のような学歴社会.

answered Oct 07 '22 at 15:39

user3856370

Thank you! Is it that this same structure can be used with other verbs as well? It reminds me of AをBとして~ but I haven't seen it in a textbook yet – K N Oct 07 '22 at 19:13
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@KN Yes! See this. – naruto Oct 08 '22 at 01:32

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