While surfing anonymously........................
http://flying-low.net/?p=878
http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/STIStory_524012.html
Quoted from http://flying-low.net/?p=878
To blame this all on their laziness, lack of competitive spirit or lack of desire is simplistic and helps no one. Everyone starts life at different starting points – some, through sheer luck, are born into wealthy families and have everything at their feet. Others start out life less fortunately and are born into families who are barely able to support themselves. Who has a better chance at success? The child who can attend tuition, who has the opportunity to travel and see the world, who worries about nothing except his/her studies, who attends independent schools with wonderful facilities or the child who has to work part-time to help his family, who has parents who cannot help him/her in his/her school work, whose parents are too busy working to be around, who attends schools filled with similar students and thus are unable to provide a similar experience as the “elite” schools?
Quoted from my memory to the above quoted
If I did remember properly, there was this SOMEONE, who said, blame your fore fathers for not working hard enough to let you have what you should have today.
My conclusion
Malay people don't over exert themselves because they are humble. Where else other races want faces, "die die" wants fame. I have seen very hard working Malay people. Some are my friends and some was my superior and boss.
I agree with the above quoted phrase, as how a child is being brought up, will affect them in their later part of life. If you're being brought up by "You'll only get what you want if you work hard." theory. Then you'll see the difference in personality.
Some told me that they are really lazy in everything they do, but it's just that they won't be lazy when it comes to earning money. This is also the way they are being brought up. Because they need to live on in life, and money is their source of survival. They have to work so that to feed their family and to pay all other expenses.
So, I can conclude that being lazy is not a race problem. It is how a person is being brought up. Social Influence.
