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- From: launce@medusa.med.utah.edu (Tri-Ungulate)
- Newsgroups: rec.skiing
- Subject: Re: National Asian Brotherhood of Skiiers?
- Message-ID: <LAUNCE.92Nov18155628@medusa.med.utah.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 20:56:28 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.190342.234@nas.nasa.gov>
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- In-Reply-To: grant@clarinet.com's message of Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:58:49 GMT
-
- In article <1992Nov18.195849.8938@clarinet.com> grant@clarinet.com (Grant Robinson) writes:
- In article <1992Nov18.023520.6376@nas.nasa.gov> eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) writes:
- >>>>I don't regard Asian cultures as highly conducive to skiing.
- >>> why not?
- >>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!
-
- I do. one of the main reasons I decided to go for a thesis here in
- Ootah is to get a few more years of skiing (and climbing) in before
- moving on. Of course, being in a good lab helps things loads, but...
-
- There are *easier* ways to ski/hike/bike/climb than flailing about in
- an _ad hoc_ MD/PhD program, of course...
-
- > 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.
-
- Ah, grasshopper, you have not been raised with the Confucian work
- ethic -- 4 out of 5 Asian-Americans recommend it over the Puritan
- type.
-
- heh heh
-
- > 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."
-
- Wow. Cool idea Grant. Go for it. That's how I ended up here in
- Ootah in the first place. School was secondary, when I decided to "get
- a real life" (tm) -- (not that graduate school in any way resembles
- real life of course)
-
- > 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!
-
- OK, I'm a heretic. So what.
-
- >To stress: I mean people take real flak for not towing the work
- >ethic line, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ^^^^^^^^^^
-
- Is this referring to water skiing? Or the new, extended rope tow at Alta?
-
- >especially closer to 1st generation immigrants.
-
- Hey, I'm first-gen born here in the USA. My parents took me skiing
- when I was little, even though they had never been before, either.
-
- >Stress on
- >academics, wait until you get to be an adult (at which time you don't
- >have time), etc.
-
- Perhaps there is a middle path...
-
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