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From: sigma@usl.UUCP (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.flame
Subject: Re: Discrimination and Affirmative Action
Message-ID: <558@usl.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 8-Jun-85 13:48:26 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun  8 13:48:26 1985
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Reply-To: sigma@usl.UUCP (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos)
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Summary: 

In article <2968@drutx.UUCP> wed@drutx.UUCP (DeibertWE) writes:
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>> ...with the possible exception of Asians, whose culture predisposes
>> them to work inordinately harder than us honkies.
>> [I am not aware of the original poster's id (spiros)]
>
>Utter BS.  Hard work is largely a matter of personal pride irregardless
>of race, sex, color, creed, *culture* or age.
>
>William D.

Ha!! Boy, do I got good news for Ya! In talking to some friends at
hi-tech businessess, their managers tend to hire Orientals (Asians also
implies Indians, Iranians, et. cetera) because of:

(a) far lower job-hopping (& company loyality)
(b) (managers' perception) higher throughput w/less complaints
(c) willingness to work hard and adopt to alien environments

Also, their rather consistent character (see stereotype) makes it
rather easy to predict future performance (my opinion, but based on
a pretty good sample size (~2500) in our school). 

<mandatory flame? nope, it's 95 F outside>

Spiros