Word: ethically
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...immigrants, because they almost universally see their children's future in terms of higher education. In part, this blind faith in academic achievement stems from the normal yearning of all immigrants to bootstrap their families into the comforts of middle-class American life. But it also bespeaks a deeper ethic permeating many Asian societies. Says Yong-Il Yi, 55, a New York City real estate broker from Seoul: "In Asia, if you don't have a higher education, you are a second-class citizen...
...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...
...today's serious efforts to reform immigration. Simpson and other proponents recognize that most new immigrants, like the generations who came before them, work long and hard, and as much as possible on their own. Says Melvin Holli, professor of history at the University of Illinois, Chicago: "Their work ethic serves them well, and it serves us well. In a sense, they are refurbishing our work ethic." The new immigrants, says Lawrence H. Fuchs, chairman of American Studies at Brandeis, "have gumption, courage, ambition. They want...
...Boston area can be deceiving. Like most first-time travelers here, you may think the only things these people care about is maintaining the Puritan ethic and polishing monuments of guys who killed Brits more than 200 years...
Once the epitome of the helter-skelter ethic of life on the lam, authorities say, the Angels of late have embraced business-school techniques to run their operations, using computers to manage administrative and financial matters and imposing strict accountability on drug dealers. Each chapter of the Angels contributes profits from its deals to a national treasury. "Motorcycle gangs have come a long way in recent years," said FBI Agent James Greenleaf. "They are much more sophisticated than most people in society would expect...