Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior Amy Chua is the author of “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior‚” where she describes the differences in Chinese parenting versus American parenting. In the book‚ Chua‚ describes Chinese parents as very structured‚ only expecting the best from their children. Anything less than the best is not good enough. This structured way of living is stressed in both education and sports. Chua details that the Chinese mother‚ will spend up to 5 or 6 hours a day with their children
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In the article‚ “Why Chinese mothers are 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
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debated subject‚ where there is a very negative attitude towards the modern Western way of raising a child. This attitude is coming from the Chinese parents living in the Western countries. Amy Chua is one of those parents. She has written an article about the differences between Western parenting and Chinese parenting called‚ “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior.” She believes in a strict upbringing where TV and play dates are not part of the agenda. An upbringing where grades lower than an A are
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Freire describes the pivotal role that educators hold in the educational system. The authority figures in “The Achievement of Desire‚” by Richard Rodriguez show the impact of educators on an individual student. In another text called “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior‚” by Amy Chua illustrates the specific conditioning that authority figures implement onto students so that they can succeed in their education. What it means to attain educational success is to fulfill the expectations of authority figures
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mother’s relative‚ my mother was saying that “don’t inform the children because the house is so far and if we take them they will become tired and also let them to study their lessons. When I heard it I became very happy because on my childhood I really liked to participate in different kinds of parties‚ I just continued playing‚ When my mother prepared herself for going to the wedding‚ I went and asked: “Mother where are you going?” Because I was so obstinate my mother hid it from me and said
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Josh Tucker Engl. 1010 2 October 2011 Reading Response: “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior” Q1: What is Amy Chua arguing? Chua is arguing the differences between the Chinese “eastern” mentality on raising children and importance on being the best at everything versus American “western” mentality where we stress that everything that we try to accomplish should be fun. Chu quotes a study where 50 “western” and 48 “eastern” mothers were polled. 70% of western women stated that stressing academic
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Why Chinese mothers are superior Amy Chua a Yale professor who specializes in topics such as ethnic conflict and globalization‚ believes that the American parenting style is weak and cuddling. This article is from her essay titled Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother‚ explains her opinions in more detail. “In one study of fifty western American mothers and forty-eight Chinese immigrant mothers‚ almost 70% of the western mothers said either that stressing academic success is not good for children
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In the article‚ “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior‚” the author Amy Chua‚ talks about how “Chinese mothers” identify different than “Western mothers.” Amy has two daughters and was brought into the U.S. at the age of one. She writes this to show how she raises her daughters as westen kids brought up by a Western father and a Chinese mother. She writes this to inform mislead people about the common stereotypes of Chinese kids that tend to be the best at academics. Chua joins the argument that Western
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Why Chinese mothers are superior 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
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Amy Chua wrote “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” for Wall Street Journals‚ this paper deals specifically in an alternative style of raising kids and how it may be better to the western counterpart. She argues that a Chinese style of raising kids are what makes them “such stereotypically successful kids”. Explained in the article are some of the things western parents and western minded people may find disagreeable or even cruel. Humiliating your own child for not being the best will appear distasteful
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