EY talks about “work ethic” in HPMOR to explain Askenazi success
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Padma Patil (whose parents came from a non-English-speaking culture and thus had raised her with an actual work ethic), Anthony Goldstein (out of a certain tiny ethnic group that won 25% of the Nobel Prizes)
Padma Patil is not Ashkenazi, she’s Indian. The passage explains Anthony Goldstein’s success via ethnicity simpliciter, but Padma Patil’s via her parents’ cultural parenting style.
I explicitly recalled him talking about an “actual work ethic” as a positive trait of a culture as an explanation for success and I recalled him making a throwaway line about Goldstein’s ethnicity. I morphed them into one.
Bad brain, terrible brain! Trust your recollections less! Or maybe I should just reread HPMOR after all this time, I’m guessing new chapters have been released in 2012 :D
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Padma Patil is not Ashkenazi, she’s Indian. The passage explains Anthony Goldstein’s success via ethnicity simpliciter, but Padma Patil’s via her parents’ cultural parenting style.
Sorry I was speaking from memory. Retracted.
I explicitly recalled him talking about an “actual work ethic” as a positive trait of a culture as an explanation for success and I recalled him making a throwaway line about Goldstein’s ethnicity. I morphed them into one.
Bad brain, terrible brain! Trust your recollections less! Or maybe I should just reread HPMOR after all this time, I’m guessing new chapters have been released in 2012 :D