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From: cd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Clarence K. Din)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Are Americans Intellectually Inferior?
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Date: 29 Jan 89 16:26:10 GMT
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In article <15993@joyce.istc.sri.com> gds@spam.istc.sri.com (Greg Skinner) writes:
>In article <27541@bu-cs.BU.EDU> cd@bu-cs.bu.edu (Clarence K. Din) writes:
>Perhaps (some) Americans cannot compete with Asians because their
>parents did not shame them into being straight A students.  I take my
>hat off to those parents.  In my opinion, it's far better to provide a
>child with care and nurture than to criticize them for failure.

I, too, agree with your opinion, however, the Asian culture has been
around for ages, so it's obviously a formula that works.

>If more people were encouraged to learn for learning's sake, as
>opposed to for some reward (or punishment if they fail to learn), we
>wouldn't have the situation where students jump off of bridges or hang
>themselves because they failed to live up to expectations.

Believe it or not, almost all suicides are "performed" by non-Asians
who have parents who have tried an Asian-approach way of discipline.

-clarence