China is a country who in the latest couple of decades has started to grow and excel in a lot of areas. One of the most apparent aspects is China’s talent to produce wonder kids, who on the leaderboards of the world are scoring top results in math, music and several other categories. A lot of people; the so called ‘Westerners’, have started wondering how it is possible for Chinese parents to raise their children into these top-scoring elitists. Western people have almost begun, to become concerned about their own way of upbringing, when compared to the Chinese who is showing such success.
In Amy Chua’s article ‘’Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior’’ this exact topic is in the main focus. Amy Chua discusses the differences between Western parents contrary to Chinese parents, as well as her own personal experience of the Chinese way of raising children. Amy Chua is a professor at Yale Law School, as well as Chinese mother herself. Amy Chua has raised both of her children in the way of the Chinese mothers, thus with her first-hand experience she tries to answer; a question common among Western parents - how exactly does Chinese parents raise such successful children?
This essay will elucidate Amy Chua’s way of enlightening this topic by analyzing her way of engaging the reader, in which there will be looked at her intended function of this article, and how the quality of her rhetorical features are, which she uses to make way to the function that she desires. Furthermore the essay will contain a discussion on possible consequences relating to the adoption of Amy Chua’s values and methods of upbringing.
Amy Chua tends to bring a lot of focus on the differences between being Chinese parents and Western parents; to her defense, she uses the words Chinese and Western parents quite loosely. In extend, she compares the two ethnicities throughout the whole text, always summing up the differences in a little conclusion. To begin