Word: confucianism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extravagant, dangerous, ridiculous garden of the '60s, when the young were "forever young," as Bob Dylan's later anthem said, fierce and primal juices fired through the nerves. Complexity fell away. Deferrals of pleasure and deferences to age, the old Confucian virtues that had made their way into America through the Protestant ethic, blew away at the concussion of youth. "Don't trust anyone over 30" became the slogan of the conspiracy...
...extravagant, dangerous, ridiculous garden of the '60s, when the young were "forever young," as Bob Dylan's later anthem said, fierce and primal juices fired through the nerves. Complexity fell away. Deferrals of pleasure and deferences to age, the old Confucian virtues that had made their way into America through the Protestant ethic, blew away at the concussion of youth. "Don't trust anyone over 30" became the slogan of the conspiracy...
Most researchers are unconvinced by the natural-superiority argument. But many do believe there is something in Asian culture that breeds success, perhaps Confucian ideals that stress family values and emphasize education. Sociologist William Liu, of the University of Illinois at Chicago, argues that immigrants from Asian countries with the 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...
...talent pool for future officials, the Chinese undergraduates are supremely political-minded. They feel it their duty to have political views, almost as though they were running for political office in local government or for Congress. Their education, much as in the old Confucian terms, has given them a responsibility to speak out on behalf of the national interest and the public welfare. In this moral sense they feel they "represent" the Chinese people at large...
What he does end up saying is that his traditional Chinese upbringing and schooling in Confucian principles of moderation, patience, balance, and simplicity stuck with him throughout his rise in American academic and corporate life...