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Reid spent several years in japan as a bureau chief for the washington post and confucius lives next door is on one level about his and his family s experiences.
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In confucius lives next door he brings all these attributes to the fore as he examines why japan china taiwan and other east asian countries enjoy the low crime rates stable families excellent education and civil harmony that remain so elusive in the west.
Reid s weekly commentary on national public radio or read his far flung reporting in national geographic or the washington post know him to be trenchant funny and cutting edge but also erudite and deeply grounded in whatever subject he s discussing.
The low crime and drug use rates the stable family structure the relatively.
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Reid s observations are his own and they are slanted indeed.
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Reid examines why asian countries enjoy low crime rates excellent education and relative civil harmony in contrast.
What living in the east teaches us about living in the west.
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Confucius lives next door is a memoir and as a memoir it carries bias.
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He praises things about japan that are praisworthy in certain situations like japan s cultural adherence to rules and suggests westerners do the same.
Fascinating and immensely readable confucius lives next door prods us to think about what lessons we might profitably take from the asian way and what parts of it we want to avoid.
Reid who has spent twenty five years studying asia and was for five years the.
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Reid however is most interested in the social miracle he observes in most of east asia.