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Article #1058Re: Anti-Japanese prejudice (Was Re: Bias on IQ tests)
From: Guy M. Smith
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1988 15:22
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1988 15:22
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> >Many Japanese have commented on the rigidity of the Japanese educational > >system and the consequent lack of creativity. It's difficult to discuss > >creativity objectively because it's difficult to define and quantify. I got into a discussion of this issue with a friend of mine who's a professor at Tokyo University (geophysics). He felt that a lot of the problem was related to the monolithic structure of Japanese industry. Much of the inn- ovation in American technology comes from small firms which apparently are virtually unknown in Japan where giants such as Mitsubishi dominate.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!wucs1!wucs2!slustl!slu70!guy From: guy@slu70.UUCP (Guy M. Smith) Newsgroups: sci.misc Subject: Re: Anti-Japanese prejudice (Was Re: Bias on IQ tests) Message-ID: <121@slu70.UUCP> Date: 25 Apr 88 15:22:41 GMT References: <49690@sun.uucp> <111@avsd.UUCP> <1238@petsd.UUCP> Organization: St. Louis Univ., St. Louis, MO Lines: 8