Word: confucianism
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...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...
...foundation of private enterprise is already firmly established in the countries along the Pacific Rim, which has been the world's fastest-growing region in the past ten years. Their prosperity is based on a unique mixture of planning and enterprise sometimes called Confucian capitalism. Says Edward Chen, director of the Center of Asian Studies at the University of Hong Kong, about newly industrialized Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore: "The government always leaves some room for the private sector to excel and to compete and to get a reasonable rate of profit." Stressing education, hard work and social harmony, state...
...remote, isolated areas in Kampuchea have made a leap so broad that they do not understand gas stoves, toilets or refrigeration. But only women immigrants have been taught to be, or at least , to appear to be, passive, obedient and submissive. A Vietnamese woman, for example, finds that the Confucian ideals of cong, dung, ngon and hanh -- versatile homemaker, subtle beauty, soft voice, gentle behavior -- do not always work as survival skills in the U.S. Said one such woman to her counselor in California: "It is harder to learn to be aggressive than I thought...
...stir hatreds, but if anything, the new Asians at least may be more welcome than most of the Italians in the generation of Lee Iaccoca's father. So many of the Asians come from the middle class, or aspire to the middle class, and are driven by a stern Confucian ethic...