You don’t agree with the wikipedia definition of work ethic that i linked to in the beginning of the post, is it?

1. The collapse of morality, particularly in the recent few decades .

2. The occupation of political space by unethical persons.

3. The continuous slavery for more than 4-5 generations coupled with suppression & collapse of native industry & education. (5 generation is a considerable one, where we tend to lose the virtues & focus)..

4. The utter poverty created by british looting, which led to people struggling even for their own lives. I think, india faced utter famines since 1850′s, particularly the bengal famine. When people struggle for their survival, how could they educate their children. And people tend to lose the confidence when atleast 3 generations lived in poverty.

5. Imposition of a alien education system, which contained science, but lacked teaching of ethics and morality.

I can cite an anology on how an elephant is tamed.. first its left to suffer out of hunger, where it loses its initial vitality.. then its tied to chains for quite some time..

particularly in temple elephants, since they are always tied to chains, they would forget their inherent power over the period of time.. after that, even if we tie the elephant with a mere rope, it will not be aware of that.

We are in such a condition..

Particularly when we look at the polity till 1990s, there was always license raj, giving unaccountable & unlimited powers to the beurocracy.. so, with all these negatives, we cannot all of sudden blame ourselves .

Today america has such great work ethics, because they have a continuous legacy of that culture, which gradually evolved since they colonized america. And this is not the case, even with many of the european countries.