Word: buddhists
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...strongest Confucian influence - Japan, Korea, China and Viet Nam - perform best. "The Confucian ethic," he says, "drives people to work, excel and repay the debt they owe their parents." By comparison, San Diego's Rumbaut points out, Laotians and Cambodians, who do somewhat less well, have a gentler, Buddhist approach to life...
Nonetheless Jayewardene, 80, is taking the biggest gamble in his nine years as President. The accord has angered his party and strained the loyalty of the 45,000-strong armed forces. The opposition parties and Buddhist monks, who are an influential force in Sinhalese society, were in the vanguard of the demonstrations. Said Madihe Pannanseeha, chief priest of the Amarapura Chapter of Buddhists: "India's aim is the total subjugation of Sri Lanka...
Sinhalese distrust of India runs deep. Over two millenniums, Sri Lanka's Buddhist majority has fought back periodic invasions from Hindu India. Sri Lanka's Tamils are Hindus too, and the Sinhalese tend to regard them as India's natural allies. The current round of Tamil-Sinhalese conflict goes back to 1956, when the Sinhalese-dominated government made Sinhala the sole official language and restricted job and educational opportunities for minorities, effectively reducing the Tamils to second-class citizens...
While the ceremony took place, Prime Minister Ranasinghe Premadasa was busy giving alms of yellow rice, curd, fruit and cake to Buddhist monks. "I asked them not to sign this, even yesterday," he told the monks. "There is terrorism in Sri Lanka only because India is backing it." Since many of Jayewardene's ruling United National Party members feel no different, the agreement stands a slim chance of winning ratification in Parliament. Mere identification with the document appeared to be dangerous: late in the week a U.N.P. deputy who had attended the signing ceremony was assassinated by a group...
...funeral, which included half a dozen speakers and prayers offered by Buddhist and Christian clergymen, began solemnly on Thursday morning inside Yonsei's leafy campus in western Seoul. At the end of the service, pallbearers hoisted the victim's coffin, draped in a South Korean flag, and carried it on their shoulders in a mass procession leading to the city hall...