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“The Master said: ‘Stupid and yet desirous of doing things his own way; ignoble and yet desirous of taking himself as sole authority; born in today’s world, yet reverting to the Tao that has come down to us from antiquity â€" People like this will bring calamity on themselves.’ ” â€" Doctrine of the Mean, Zhu Xi

I’m delighted that Tiger Mom Amy Chua brings “Chinese values” â€" a phrase that brings to mind a big sign on I-93 when it swung into Boston before the Big Dig tunnel: “Chinese Church” â€" to the West. But what is more impressive, in my opinion, are the Chinese agricultural workers who worked California’s Central Valley during the Great Depression, some without pay: “We were lucky,” an elderly Chinese woman said recently. “We had ducks and chickens to eat while others had nothing.” My Irish relatives are still complaining about the potato famine.

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