{"id":60589,"date":"2014-11-30T11:44:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T19:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=60589"},"modified":"2014-11-30T11:44:29","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T19:44:29","slug":"the-japanese-work-ethic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=60589","title":{"rendered":"The Japanese Work Ethic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A major reason, I suspect, that Japan has such a <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=60275\">low unemployment rate<\/a> is that the Japanese have a big work ethic. They like to work and to conduct themselves in an honorable way. When they have a disaster in Japan, the Japanese don&#8217;t use it as an opportunity to loot. They are the opposite of New Orleans blacks, for instance.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers tend to be race realists. 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