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- From: grant@clarinet.com (Grant Robinson)
- Subject: Re: National Asian Brotherhood of Skiiers?
- Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp.
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:58:49 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.195849.8938@clarinet.com>
- References: <1992Nov16.190342.234@nas.nasa.gov> <1992Nov16.204556.29374@news.cs.brandeis.edu> <1992Nov18.023520.6376@nas.nasa.gov>
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- In article <1992Nov18.023520.6376@nas.nasa.gov> eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) writes:
- >>>and our numbers are relatively small. I don't regard Asian cultures as
- >>>highly conducive to skiing.
- >
- >1) Greater stress by our cultures toward education and work and less on
- >"play."
-
- There's the problem. Not enough people see skiing as an important part of
- one's overall education!
-
- Seriously though, I find the "greater stress" part worrysome, I thought
- things were bad enough here. In my statistically insignificant opinion
- of one, in the majority of North American, and majority of people, there
- is still an overriding Puritan work ethic: work and school are "good," and
- except in extremely small and controlled (not to mention socially
- condoned) doses, fun and/or unemployment are bad.
-
- It seems any time I mention the idea of quitting my job and ski bumming it
- for a year or two, I immediately become an outcast. In fact, I have yet
- to meet one person who says "Cool idea."
-
- If I understand Eugene correctly, then I empathize with Asians for whom
- such an idea would not merely be socially undesireable, it would be akin to
- heresy!
-
- >To stress: I mean people take real flak for not towing the work
- >ethic line, especially closer to 1st generation immigrants. Stress on
- >academics, wait until you get to be an adult (at which time you don't
- >have time), etc.
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- Grant Robinson -- ClariNet Communications Corp, Sunnyvale, CA (408)-296-0366
-