you can call it White Privilege, Puritan Work Ethic, Protestant Work Ethic or North European Work Ethic.
It doesn’t matter what it is called. In America, having a good work ethic is the key to success. regardless of skin color, national origins or religion.
A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but calling it “dung” will confuse people. And that’s the point of “white privilege” as a phrase: to demean the ethic, dismissing the hard work and claiming the consequences are unearned. Words have meaning; using “white” makes it a racist issue, “privilege” makes it unfair, severing any religious/worldview reference demotes it to base hedonistic morals. Hence my insistence on “Puritan work ethic”: references a religious basis as superior, emphasizes labor & productivity, and makes it a personal decision/action.
And it has to start the first day of school, when you are six. Early education is like yeast. That’s the work that really counts, and it has to continue. Asian students know it like their own name.