Amy Chua‚ Why Chinese Mothers are Superior As a young adult raised in a Chinese family‚ my experiences with my parents are drastically different compared to parenting style Amy Chua suggests. In her essay "Why Chinese Mothers aresuperior" Chua explains that being strict can help her children become "successful"‚ has a positive impact for them‚ and is a better method for raising a child. Chua believes that Western parents are too free with compliments‚ and easily let a child give up on tasks they
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Superior‚ Chua describes her efforts to give her children what she describes as a traditional‚ strict “Chinese” upbringing.] This piece was controversial. Many readers missed the supposed irony and self-deprecating humor in the title and the piece itself and instead believed that Chua was advocating the “superiority” of a particular‚ very strict‚ ethnically defined approach to parenting. In fact Chua has stated that the book was not a "how-to" manual but a self-mocking memoir. In any case‚ Chua defines
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Tiger Mums The text “Why Chinese Moms Are Superior” is written by Amy Chua‚ a professor at Yale law school. The article is an excerpt from her book “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”‚ which were the cause of much discussion because her methods of raising her kids to many “Western parents” were too strict and almost inhumane. The article deals with the differences between Chinese and Western perception of how to raise a child seen from the perspective of a Chinese mother. Although the Chinese tends
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entire novel. Chua is questioning the traditional Western parenting ways and inevitably promoting her self-righteous “Tiger Mom” ideology. While I understand certain positive aspects of her extremist theory‚ I believe that Western parenting is in fact the way to go. Not only should parents respect their children’s opinions and desires‚ her definition of success is tremendously subjective and is most likely not representative of your average parent’s definition of the term. What is Amy Chua really achieving
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cultural upbringings can be quick to spark the ever so famous argument of who is right and who is wrong. Author Amy Chua shares her opinion of how kids in Eastern and Western cultures are brought up‚ the stringent versus more relaxed disciplinary actions taken‚ and some different stereotypes that follow. Someone all the way across the country could
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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
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book “Chinese Tiger Moms” by Amy Chua. It is a very controversial book‚ where Amy Chua explains how she raised her children “the Chinese way” in America. It’s about a mom who raises her children and afterwards become the Tiger mom. Amy Chua’s children were not allowed to watch TV or play Computer games. They were also not allowed to have play dates or sleepovers. They also had to play violin or Piano. If Amy Chua’s children said “they could not do something”‚ Amy Chua command‚ them to do it until
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successful career path requires discipline which can come from various national backgrounds. Discipline creates a label of parenting‚ by either being critiqued or accepted by others. One parent in particular‚ Amy Chua‚ makes her own label as a strict parent. In Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior by Amy Chua‚ the main focus is to show how Chinese parenting leads to stereotypically successful kids. A critic Victor Sherman assesses that “Chua’s premise that Chinese mothers raise ‘stereotypically successful’ children
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raising their own children. Parents have to figure out the right passage through their traditions and values on to their children; it can either be in a conservative‚ liberal‚ or anything in between. In her essay‚ “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” Amy Chua explains why her strict disciplining methods are better than anybody else’s. She compares the way Western parents and Chinese mothers teach and parent in two completely different ways‚ and describe the indifferences‚ “Even when Western parents think
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In reading “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom” by Amy Chua‚ I was surprised how Chua shared in detail about her life journey as a parent and raising two children. This is a book about Amy Chua’s experiences in raising her two daughters‚ Sophia and Luisa (Lulu)‚ in what she believes is the “Chinese mother” style of parenting. She is quick to point out in the first chapter‚ entitled “The Chinese Mother‚” that she uses the term “loosely” as it would be ridiculous to try to assume that every mother from
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