Are you a typical western-parent, as so many others, searching for the holy grail of parenthood? You might want to search across waters, to find just the answers you are looking for. At least according to Amy Chua, who despite living in the United States has her strict parenting directly from her roots in China. A form where the hard work invested in school is rewarded with more. Where kids have no saying cause mummy knows best or where a social life is not allowed. She got the results, but is that really the right way?
“Why Chinese mothers are superior” was an article written by Amu Chua and brought in the Wall street journal in 2011. The article enlightens the cultural differences between the Asian- and …show more content…
After giving the statement Amy Chua follow up with a story from her own life, where one of her daughters refuses to play a piano piece given by Amy Chua, because she simply finds it to hard to learn, despite spending two hours at the piano and still being unable to play the piece correctly Amy Chua does not give up on her and the two of them ends up sitting in front of the piano playing it for five hours straight without interruptions, until her daughter finally gets it and afterwards plays it to perfection. Here as Amy Chua emphasizes is one of the two core differences of the two cultures, as she sees it a stereotypical western-family would have given up after the first two hours and given an easier piece, where Amy Chua has the immense belief in her child and is ready to spend the hours needed for her daughter to make it there.
Amy makes her compelling arguments through the use of Ethos and Logos. Ethos in the way she presents the reader to her two highly successful kids, one who has played at nothing less than Carnegie Hall and another who is practicing to accomplish the same.
Logos is used in the way she drags studies into the article, specifically a study that tells Chinese parents spends around 10 times as long as the western parents do on academic activities with their children or the study that showed how the western-parents felt their children should feel about school and studying contra