Reply #10: You know, I do not think I've ever met a lazy asian... [View All]

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I think that Asians, in general, have a much stronger work ethic culturally. I mean the Japanese have a word for death by over work.

They die because they work themselves to death, and Americans die because we clog our arteries with double bacon cheese burgers.


The same way the American dream works, it also works in reverse. We work hard to make a better life, and then once we have it, we don't have to work so hard. So the next generation, and the one after that get less and less driven to work as hard but they want more and more stuff. So somebody has to work hard.

We want to achieve and consume and obtain, so we no longer want to work so hard. We work hard as a means to an end, not as a way of life or a philosophy of establishing self-worth and self-esteem.

So once we get there, we're done. Whereas some of these immigrant workers and migrant labor, they have a very strong family support mechanisms and a drive to work hard to care for their family.