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November 6, 2012

Education dominates Singapore's 'different'

Brent Larkin:

"People in America and other places in the West always talk about Asians being so smart," said the 20-year-old college student as she helped shuttle tourists onto buses outside a spectacular new convention center, casino and hotel complex.

"But it's really more about discipline than intelligence. And we are more disciplined. It's built into our culture to study all the way through school.
"In America, your culture is much different."

Is it ever.

In less than 50 years, the culture here has transformed a tiny patch of tropical land at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula into one of the great economic success stories of this or any other century.

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Posted by Jim Zellmer at November 6, 2012 2:35 AM
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