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eropple on May 10, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: What happens to all the Asian-American overachieve...

Cargo-cult social behaviors don't work any better than cargo-cult programming.

People can smell a fake a mile away.

carussell on May 11, 2011 | [–]

And yet, there seems to be no shortage of buy-in for them.

leot on May 10, 2011 | [–]

There are lots of different kinds of people.

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