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compared how long they tried before
giving up. The Japanese children spent
an average of 13.93 minutes on the
puzzle before calling it quits, whereas
the American kids spent only 9.47
minutes. Fewer than 27 percent of the
American students persisted as long as
the average Japanese student—and
only 10 percent of the Japanese students
gave up as quickly as the average
American. Blinco attributes these results
to the Japanese quality of
persistence.
The quiet persistence shown by many
Asians, and Asian-Americans, is not
limited to the fields of math and science.
Several years after my first trip to
Cupertino, I caught up with Tiffany
Liao, the Swarthmore-bound high
school student whose parents had
praised her so highly for loving to read,
even in public, when she was a young
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