Word: ant
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...work had to be beaten into a mostly balky peasantry in Europe, even while such dedication flourished under Confucianism. Today the work ethic in China puts the U.S. to shame. Imagine what will happen when technology and innovation join with what some U.S. experts in the 1960s contemptuously called "ant labor" in China...
...Just for the record, the whole rough-tough-combat-boot thing is a very well executed illusion. The wrestlers wear shoes with soft, pliable rubber souls that would leave an ant unscathed...