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Perhaps the Confucian work ethic is the source of motivation for some Asian-Americans. But to describe this as the sole reason for the entire group's relative academic success is a shallow analysis of a complex interplay of forces...

Author: By Laurance L. Lee, | Title: The `Model Minority' Myth | 3/1/1990 | See Source »

...underlying assumption of the Confucian work-ethic theory is that all Asians are culturally better equipped to learn. This shallow view of the group's academic ability places undue expectations on the many less-educated, lower-income members. For them, the myth of Asian superiority only exacerbates the problems of being a member of this minority group...

Author: By Laurance L. Lee, | Title: The `Model Minority' Myth | 3/1/1990 | See Source »

...changed our practice ethic this week, we were much more focussed and intense," Ehrlich said. "I think it carried over into the first game...

Author: By Tom Kane, | Title: Spikers Swing By Big Green in Four Games | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

...show his support for fume-free mass transit and visited a motor vehicle factory to admire the prototype of a methanol-powered bus. At a country club in Santa Barbara -- as Republican a setting as any to be found in Southern California -- he assured a matronly audience, "An environmental ethic will pervade the administration of Governor Wilson from Day One." Obviously, Wilson was trying to distance himself on the environment from California's outgoing Republican Governor George Deukmejian and to lay at least some conservative claim to the issue. Insists Wilson strategist Otto Bos, with etymological aplomb: "The words conservation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California Greenin' | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

...there is such a thing, cannot come simply by attempting to artificially create a new person, a heaven on earth or a perfect welfare state. These can never replace humane attitudes towards others. The willingness to make personal sacrifices for the good of all, along with a social ethic that encourages that willingness, is the only path to true social justice...

Author: By Liam T.A. Ford, | Title: Did Prayer Bring Down the Wall? | 2/17/1990 | See Source »

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