What is with the Asian work ethic and it being promoted in the US? The exact thing that's leading so many to kill themselves in these countries is being praised as the thing that can save the west. I remember kids in my school being disgusted and horrified when a Chinese teacher was casually telling us how some parents force their kids to follow the parent's dreams if the parents did not succeed in getting it and make the work hard to get it, even to the point of losing friends, as well how we are so lazy in the US and don't work as hard as them. blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2014/05/05/asian-americans-are-high-achievers-because-they-work-harder/#.WnuexminHrc