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From: matloff@bizet.Berkeley.EDU (Norman Matloff)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Are Americans Intellectually Inferior?
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Date: 30 Jan 89 01:27:44 GMT
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In article <27586@bu-cs.BU.EDU> cd@bu-cs.bu.edu (Clarence K. Din) writes:
>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:

*>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.

Would you please rephrase this?  Either I've misunderstood your point,
or you meant to say something else.

Certainly suicide after failed exams is something one hears about in
Japan.

Last year a Taiwanese immigrant at UCLA took her own life, because of
academic problems.

   Norm