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...advice was also bad, at least for me.In fact, my brother's Confucian wisdom wasprobably the worst advice I could have followed. Iwas reared, as a good number of Harvard studentsare, to be an over-achiever, to do everything sothat it's done right (and, more importantly, sothat someone will praise you). So following mybrother's advice made me follow my worst instinctthroughout my first year: to succeed academicallyat any cost, even if it got in the way of mypersonal life...
...addition, she noted that a Chinese woman of any social standing was expected to conform to the Confucian ideal of submissiveness Bound feet were symbols of this ideal in the traditional culture, she said...
...governments may decry the surge in Western adoptions, millions of children around the world are abandoned and homeless -- about 7 million in Brazil alone. Only a tiny percentage of these children find homes locally, and in some cases they are doomed to eternal stigma. In Korea, for example, a Confucian value system places such a premium on male gender and blood ties that the adoption of a baby girl, or an unrelated male, is virtually unthinkable...
Lewison Lee Lem, a Harvard admissions officer, calls this parental attitude "the Beida syndrome." Beida, which refers to Peking University in Mandarin, is shorthand for the push in Asian countries to be accepted at the top national institution, a tradition that stems from the Confucian emphasis on bureaucratic status via education. Once admitted, students are guaranteed a secure future, and parents feel they have done their duty...
...preachings of the liberal West, Elegant argues, are undermined by the effectiveness of authoritarian Neo-Confucianism from Seoul to Tokyo to Taipei, from Beijing to Bangkok to Kuala Lumpur. Japan's energy comes from a disciplined adherence to the hierarchical loyalties demanded by the ancient philosophy. In Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew reigns as a benevolent but stern patriarch. South Korea prospers because of -- not in spite of -- Park Chung Hee, the dictator who laid the foundations for his country's phenomenal economic expansion. Though Elegant does not quite make the argument, the Confucian ethic, with its emphasis on obedience...