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...Wasp style placed a high value on industry and success and a correspondingly low value on anything that was not useful. All the nose-to- the-grindstone maxims of Benjamin Franklin found eager Wasp readers. Unchallenged by medieval or socialist countermodels, the Protestant work ethic flourished here like an animal species without predators. Admiration for hard work and the expectation that hard workers would have something to show for it became the starlings of the American soul...
...England Primer. (They weren't big on self-esteem in the 18th century.) Conscience has the added advantage of being portable. Many cultures rely on peer pressure to enforce their rules and regulations. The Wasp with a conscience could feel guilty all by himself. Conscience also reinforced the work ethic: if you made good, you -- and everyone else -- knew that you were good...
...Yilva, 35, the struggle is not just to preserve her native tongue; she also wants to suffuse her home, which has grown with the addition of Kristen, 3, with the Latin ethic that values family above all else. "Here, you live to work. There, we work to live," she says. "In Venezuela we take a two-hour lunch break; we don't cram in a hamburger at MacDonald...
While that ethic does not necessarily resolve identity conflicts, times are changing. Says Stephen Chen, a 20-year-old liberal arts major at Atlanta's Emory College: "When first-generation Asians talk about Caucasians, they tend to say 'Americans.' That leaves the impression that we're foreigners and always will be, and we have to accept that -- which I don't agree with." Elaine Kim, professor of Asian-American studies at Berkeley, comments, "It used to be that you had to be assimilating or foreign. Now we have young Asian-American writers who are refusing that choice. What they...
What explains such dedication? An unrelenting work ethic? An unquenchable thirst for knowledge? Or Harvard Dining Services' mouthwatering holiday menu...