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his work — as if each of his
columns is a report card he
has brought home. "It's a pro-
cess that still goes on," says
Cohen. "I continue to want
their approval. There are
pieces of mine that they don't
like, and I feel I have let them
down. On the other hand, I
get an enormous kick when
they like a column and tell
me so. I still want to please
them."
It is just such a sense of in-
debtedness to totally involved
parents that has helped
motivate many contemporary
Asian children to reach
remarkable levels of achieve-
ment. "In the opening years
of the child's life," says Har-
vard University professor of
psychology Jerome Kagan,
"the Japanese mother
devotes herself to satisfying
all his needs and wants. By
her every word and action,
she reminds him of her deep
love and devotion — that he is
the most important thing in
the world to her." Then, when
the time comes for him to go
off to school, the child has an
intense desire not to disap-
point her. Similarly, when
CBS news correspondent
Mike Wallace asked a group
of Vietnamese children, now
growing up in New York, to
explain what it is that drives
them to garner such con-
sistently high grades, their
answer was, "It's the family
honor."
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