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Old 04-22-2005, 11:51 AM
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Asian student confesses: 'we work harder'

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Originally posted by Phasad1913

Also, to assume that just because someone calls himself a leader does not make them so. They are SELF PROCLAIMED. If YOU want to make them out to be, that's you, but don't impose your sense of who is and who is not a leader onto folks you know NOTHING about.
For better or worse, do these "leaders" not get TV stations to show up when they hold a press conference? One could possibly blame the media for helping these people to perpetuate the stereotype of hopelessness. Why is it that dissenters with these leaders are generally thought to be running against the grain of "the community"?

I think that the problems are largely cultural, but produced and perpetuated by socioeconomic factors more than anything else (or am I just stating the obvious?).
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