Well U.S., the legacy of living off of slavery money and bombing Japan and Germany into the stone ages is gone. You have lost to many, many peoples around the world who will risk their health and well-being for their children, whose children are happy to have a pencil, and (mostly) to the countries that have newly rich people via actual industry. You are over-entertained and under educated (blame Freud's nephew...yes, the few of you with patience/ambition might get that or look it up).
I think Amy Chua isn't the worst. I've seen kids who has more strict parents. Once I broke my classmate's correction tape (he's asian), he was caned my his mother. Atleast in the book, Amy is reflective and she is kind of conflicted at some points and sometimes wonders but alot of other Tiger Mums are just full force like a train and more narrow minded.
You can not train a lion in a nice zoo. Being overly strict may make the kid go mental disorder and hateful toward you, being overly pleasing may turn them into a sugar cake which is terrible for their own future. The key is not how to force them to success or how to please them but how to grow in them a will to strive for success and how to make them happy in a positive ways.
If you are interested in this topic, you might also enjoy watching the episode of our talk show "Thoughtful China" which addressed issues related to "tiger moms" inside China. Please look for the Thoughtful China - "Tiger Mom Consumers" episode on our channel. The episode was inspired by the debate ignited by Amy Chua's book.
First of all, Asian parents DO NOT call their children "garbage." Asian parents want their kids to the do the best. Asian parents always talk about their lives to their kids about hardships and etc...... they DO NOT call their kids "garbage." The lady who said that was an idiot.
This is why I don't understand western parents!! Your kids are not your friends, they are your freaking kids. Your parents are not your friends, they are your parents and you better show them respects!!! the thing about Asian parents, they love their kids, protect their kids and always want their kids to be successful... they support their kids financially, emotionally and etc... I don't know about western parents. My mother IS my mother, she's the best, she's not my friend... she's my MOM.
I LOVE this style of parenting I love a drive for excellence to me it shows true love for your children. I do however think it needs tweeking it can be a little much, but I love it. Being African American I wish the parents that I know would have pushed us to do better. I will do this for my future kids, I will drive them to be the best. I think us Americans are confused .
@ineedya123 Why choose between two extremes? If most American parents simply turn a blind eye when their kids bring home borderline-failing report cards, the solution isn't to go the opposite direction and spank your kid for bringing home an A instead of an A plus. *That's* where most of us Americans are confused - We see everything in black and white instead of a spectrum with many shades of gray in between. Please read up on the "authoritative" parenting style.
@wicaco I don't think the confusion comes from lack of knowledge about balance, I think its a lack of understanding that celebrating mediocrity, we end up hurting stifling kids. I never called it perfect no parent is perfect. I do think that there are values that we need to embrace that I see found in people of an Asian background. There is a reason why in our country Asian students smash other backgrounds across the board especially in math and science.
@ineedya123 What should we consider mediocre, though? I think many of us can agree that the whole, "C's get degrees" attitude that is prevalent in American colleges is deplorable, and even the acceptability of B's as a "good" grade is questionable. If your kid came home with a 95 out of 100 on a test, though, would you see that as a grade worthy of celebration, punishment, or indifference?
@wicaco Medicority should be based on the abilities of the student. I think that the kids here and everywhere are so Bright many of our kids can do beyond the imaginable I think that we should be pushing more for the very best because thats what they can do. As for the 95, yes a very good grade, but if I know my kid can do better then yes I would encourage them to study harder, cut out TV for a little while, study with them, do what I can to make sure that they are up to the fullest they can do.
@ineedya123 I definitely agree with you that we aren't fostering the best of our kids' abilities, it's just a matter of how far we should go with it. Where Amy Chua goes wrong, in my opinion, is in cutting out things like recreational activities and sleepovers that help to develop social skills in children - At least, her original philosophy. Apparently in the book she realizes she goes too far and gives her children a little more breathing room.
By the way, official statistics in Japan and South Korea and several independent studies of China (its own government-censored statistics are questionable) show that rates of suicide are very high in the region, and part of the reason why is because of the high levels of pressure and shame placed upon individuals in traditional East Asian cultures. Your kids might grow up to be doctors but they might not be okay mentally.
@wicaco - Really?? what do you consider mentally okay? How many asian's do you hear in the news killing someone or openly start shooting people in public? or decapitating a person or molesting and abusing kids?. I tell you it is rare, you get a census from somewhere that in Gapan and korea people commit suicide and you suddenly think the reason why they kill themselves is because of what the values that the parents have instilled in them is what caused the suicide? ....
@devonferris "How many asian's do you hear in the news killing someone or openly start shooting people in public?" Uhhh, were you in a coma for the year of 2007? Does the name Seung-Hui Cho ring a bell? You know, the college student who was born in South Korea, partly raised there, and partly-raised in a large Korean American community by South Korean parents in Virginia, who killed 32 people and wounded 25 others? Your essentialist belief in cultural superiority fails hard... Sorry.
@devonferris Seriously though, if that's not enough for you, allow me to give you some phrases to google: "Human rights abuses in Myanmar" "2008-2010 political unrest in Thailand" "North Korean labor camps" "Nanking Massacre" "Khmer Rouge" "Hundred Flowers Campaign" "Genghis Khan" Seriously, just open a history book. There are no perfect cultures or races.
@wicaco - WOW you are comparing Amy Chua's memoir to the atrocity of those videos you recommended? You are way over reacting. Did you even read the book? Even if her book was about how to raise your children successfully I would still follow her recommendations but not to the extreme. Calm down, talk to actual chinese kid or korean kids see if they are thinking of committing suicides and regret what they're asian parents instilled in them instead of what you read in the media.
@devonferris You asked a question, and I answered it. No, I don't believe all Asian kids commit suicide. Do you believe all Western kids go on shooting sprees? Don't be ridiculous. My point is that no one set of values has all of the answers.
@wicaco - I never said that Asians were perfect, and Amy Chua never wrote the book saying Asians are better. The Wall street were the one that titled her book "Chinese mom are superior" to get attention. Amy even said dozens of times that her book was her own memoir and how she changed in the end. Everyone in the media is portraying her as this BITCH FROm Hell. I would rather raised my kids this way, why do I say that? Because the positive results outweighs when you dont.....
Respond to this video... I remember myself when I was young I hated everything my parents told me to do, but as I grew up I saw all the benefits it produced and I thank them for it. The day that your parents stop being hard on you is the day they stop CARING..and for you to compare her ways as Nanking massacre is a mental sickness to your part I think. You are going overboard gust like everyones who is commenting and hating on her methods and race. You are as racist as they are...
Respond to this video... I would rather produce a hard working kids that becomes successful than produce a person who kills, shoots people and molest kids that so many western people seem to produce. Good luck on that.
@salma19100 not at all...Tiger mother parenting does not "force you into a particular path." Amy Chua's book, first of all, is a memoir...not a parenting book. But as far as her parenting style she said herself that her aim was never to limit her child's choices but to develop a work ethic and a self discipline and self worth that will ALLOW you to do follow whatever path you choose as far as you want to.
Personally, I think Amy Chua is the reason why Chinese people can never produce a Steve Jobs or Lady Gaga. Tiger mother parenting (which forces you into a particular path) will never encourage innovation or to follow your dreams. Outliers follow their dreams and passions, and not what their parents tell them to do.
@salma19100 true chinese may have less outliers, that one star out of a million, but they will always have hundreds of thousands of decent, well-educated, brilliant minds out of a million. But America's blind promotion of innovation risks the result of producing extreme idiosyncratz who may not always benefit the society
@salma19100 Umm you probably don't know this but China is gonna overtake US as the next economic superpower in 30 years time. Besides they do have the Steve Jobs' though not the Lady Gaga's. But who wanna be Lady Gaga outside US anyway. Only Americans love crazy people.
@giriisindahouse I'd bet in less than 30 years...much less. People in the U.S. will have to get used to how the "real world" operates, with closer to global median pay for unskilled labour (if you're lucky enough to have a job), a lack of safety concerns/laws for unskilled jobs, no real workers compensation...all very quickly. They're already beginning to shift towards it with minimum sentences and prison slave labour...so maybe they'll weather this storm :)
@salma19100 you dont understand it is the discipline that tiger mothers instill that makes them superior...Western society lacks a lot of discipline and work ethic... I am talking about working 12 hour days, 6 or 7 days a week
@salma19100 - HAHAHA Your a Douche, have you even read the BOOK? if you have read the book you would know she is not even FAR A tiger mom the media frenzy is claiming to be. It is a typical asian parents. China don't have Steve and Gaga but they sure have magority of asians smarter than your ass, but besides WHO IN THEIR RIGHt mind wants to be like LADY GAGA?? Only insane people like you I guess.
I find it hard to believe that someone can ever become highly proficient at something, create a new law, cure a disease, ect.. without actually investing time and effort. However, the debate is on whether we should force our children, or 'encourage' our children to direct their attention. I have nothing against encouraging children by providing them books, computers, and other environmental opportunities. But 'forcing' a child , via emotional pressure is limited in how much it can do.
@zadeh79 A tiger mom may raise a child to obtain a Master's or PHD degree, but 'giftedness' cannot be forced into a person. Higher levels of insight require broad and open minds. Restricting a child's activities, limits their range of experiences, and results in a type of intellectual lop-sidedness, which ultimately limits real world problem solving ability. Real world problem solving ability requires a broad range of specific (and deep) knowledges, and their experimental products.
I don't understand parents who monitor their kids schoolwork and progress like it's their job. I finished high school and college because I knew it's what I had to do if I didn't want to work at burger king forever. Nobody had to hover over me and I'll be damned if I do that for my kids.
Amy Chua is an attention whore like the rest of realty T.V. stars. Her immigrant parents didn't suffer hardship in the U.S.. Her father received full scholarship to MIT graduate school at age 25 and probably made a very nice living soon after graduating. She was born in the good 'ol U.S.A. to parents with high IQs and very nice incomes. C'mon...it's not like her dad was slaving away all day at a Chinese restaurant and her mom worked as a nanny. She had all the ingredients for success.
@timlin0607 i see...im sure it was easy to abandon his family, come to a new country, new language, get a scholarship(easy as anything) and start a new life(with his wife) and raise kids.....>_>. getting to upper-middle class in a new country shouldve been real easy for them.
the nonsense u wrote up can only be justified if ur aged 15 or less OR american(in which case i forgive u. its not ur fault.)
she eats one sprout,2 prawns and 6 muscle a day this is the woman you are talking about her husband is always shunt down he even needs permission to blink
Duh, you think so? Conservative Christians have known this forever! The friends of children came from liberals. Finally some light is shinning on these idiot liberals.
Read the Bible about rearing children. Find the truth!
Chinese kids are treated like kings these days. Every middle-class Chinese kids have servants, private rides to international schools, and the love of 4 grandparents per kid. I think ""tiger mom" is not "real" Chinese anymore.
@mercedescl i agree that the "tiger mom" way of raising isn't a real representation of ALL chinese people..some but not all.
as a matter of fact, Amy Chua's book is being marketed in China as written by an american mom. they have her on the cover with an american flag.
the difference in marketing is because most chinese mothers(who live in China) wouldn't be interested in reading a book about "chinese parenting"(not that there is one way of homogeneous parenting style in china).
@mercedescl let me rephrase.of course, amy chua is american too! american is a nationality as opposed to just one specific ethnicity.
but i think you get what i'm getting at. i visited shanghai a few years back and you're right.the kids there(atleast in the cities) grow up very privileged with nannies, housekeepers, personal drivers who drive them everywhere. and there are many chinese parents who don't impose too much like amy chua(academically speaking).
Well U.S., the legacy of living off of slavery money and bombing Japan and Germany into the stone ages is gone. You have lost to many, many peoples around the world who will risk their health and well-being for their children, whose children are happy to have a pencil, and (mostly) to the countries that have newly rich people via actual industry. You are over-entertained and under educated (blame Freud's nephew...yes, the few of you with patience/ambition might get that or look it up).
newguy33X 4 days ago
I think Amy Chua isn't the worst. I've seen kids who has more strict parents. Once I broke my classmate's correction tape (he's asian), he was caned my his mother. Atleast in the book, Amy is reflective and she is kind of conflicted at some points and sometimes wonders but alot of other Tiger Mums are just full force like a train and more narrow minded.
galiciadba 2 months ago
You can not train a lion in a nice zoo. Being overly strict may make the kid go mental disorder and hateful toward you, being overly pleasing may turn them into a sugar cake which is terrible for their own future. The key is not how to force them to success or how to please them but how to grow in them a will to strive for success and how to make them happy in a positive ways.
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ThoughtfulChina 5 months ago
First of all, Asian parents DO NOT call their children "garbage." Asian parents want their kids to the do the best. Asian parents always talk about their lives to their kids about hardships and etc...... they DO NOT call their kids "garbage." The lady who said that was an idiot.
niamtxiv 6 months ago
This is why I don't understand western parents!! Your kids are not your friends, they are your freaking kids. Your parents are not your friends, they are your parents and you better show them respects!!! the thing about Asian parents, they love their kids, protect their kids and always want their kids to be successful... they support their kids financially, emotionally and etc... I don't know about western parents. My mother IS my mother, she's the best, she's not my friend... she's my MOM.
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The answer to this video is, yes. DUH.
In 10 years the world will be run by Asians.
ambition415 7 months ago
There are definitely many people out there who gauge their own happiness based on if they can't beat the next guy.
hellodinojamie 8 months ago
I think most of the people criticizing this book haven't actually read the book. And yes, I did read the book.
iLime14 8 months ago
I LOVE this style of parenting I love a drive for excellence to me it shows true love for your children. I do however think it needs tweeking it can be a little much, but I love it. Being African American I wish the parents that I know would have pushed us to do better. I will do this for my future kids, I will drive them to be the best. I think us Americans are confused .
ineedya123 8 months ago
@ineedya123 Why choose between two extremes? If most American parents simply turn a blind eye when their kids bring home borderline-failing report cards, the solution isn't to go the opposite direction and spank your kid for bringing home an A instead of an A plus. *That's* where most of us Americans are confused - We see everything in black and white instead of a spectrum with many shades of gray in between. Please read up on the "authoritative" parenting style.
wicaco 7 months ago
@wicaco I don't think the confusion comes from lack of knowledge about balance, I think its a lack of understanding that celebrating mediocrity, we end up hurting stifling kids. I never called it perfect no parent is perfect. I do think that there are values that we need to embrace that I see found in people of an Asian background. There is a reason why in our country Asian students smash other backgrounds across the board especially in math and science.
ineedya123 7 months ago
@ineedya123 What should we consider mediocre, though? I think many of us can agree that the whole, "C's get degrees" attitude that is prevalent in American colleges is deplorable, and even the acceptability of B's as a "good" grade is questionable. If your kid came home with a 95 out of 100 on a test, though, would you see that as a grade worthy of celebration, punishment, or indifference?
wicaco 7 months ago
@wicaco Medicority should be based on the abilities of the student. I think that the kids here and everywhere are so Bright many of our kids can do beyond the imaginable I think that we should be pushing more for the very best because thats what they can do. As for the 95, yes a very good grade, but if I know my kid can do better then yes I would encourage them to study harder, cut out TV for a little while, study with them, do what I can to make sure that they are up to the fullest they can do.
ineedya123 7 months ago
@ineedya123 I definitely agree with you that we aren't fostering the best of our kids' abilities, it's just a matter of how far we should go with it. Where Amy Chua goes wrong, in my opinion, is in cutting out things like recreational activities and sleepovers that help to develop social skills in children - At least, her original philosophy. Apparently in the book she realizes she goes too far and gives her children a little more breathing room.
wicaco 7 months ago
By the way, official statistics in Japan and South Korea and several independent studies of China (its own government-censored statistics are questionable) show that rates of suicide are very high in the region, and part of the reason why is because of the high levels of pressure and shame placed upon individuals in traditional East Asian cultures. Your kids might grow up to be doctors but they might not be okay mentally.
wicaco 7 months ago
@wicaco - Really?? what do you consider mentally okay? How many asian's do you hear in the news killing someone or openly start shooting people in public? or decapitating a person or molesting and abusing kids?. I tell you it is rare, you get a census from somewhere that in Gapan and korea people commit suicide and you suddenly think the reason why they kill themselves is because of what the values that the parents have instilled in them is what caused the suicide? ....
devonferris 6 months ago
@devonferris "How many asian's do you hear in the news killing someone or openly start shooting people in public?" Uhhh, were you in a coma for the year of 2007? Does the name Seung-Hui Cho ring a bell? You know, the college student who was born in South Korea, partly raised there, and partly-raised in a large Korean American community by South Korean parents in Virginia, who killed 32 people and wounded 25 others? Your essentialist belief in cultural superiority fails hard... Sorry.
wicaco 6 months ago
@wicaco - read it again I said "RARE".....
devonferris 6 months ago
@devonferris Seriously though, if that's not enough for you, allow me to give you some phrases to google: "Human rights abuses in Myanmar" "2008-2010 political unrest in Thailand" "North Korean labor camps" "Nanking Massacre" "Khmer Rouge" "Hundred Flowers Campaign" "Genghis Khan" Seriously, just open a history book. There are no perfect cultures or races.
wicaco 6 months ago
@wicaco - WOW you are comparing Amy Chua's memoir to the atrocity of those videos you recommended? You are way over reacting. Did you even read the book? Even if her book was about how to raise your children successfully I would still follow her recommendations but not to the extreme. Calm down, talk to actual chinese kid or korean kids see if they are thinking of committing suicides and regret what they're asian parents instilled in them instead of what you read in the media.
devonferris 6 months ago
@devonferris You asked a question, and I answered it. No, I don't believe all Asian kids commit suicide. Do you believe all Western kids go on shooting sprees? Don't be ridiculous. My point is that no one set of values has all of the answers.
wicaco 6 months ago
@wicaco - I never said that Asians were perfect, and Amy Chua never wrote the book saying Asians are better. The Wall street were the one that titled her book "Chinese mom are superior" to get attention. Amy even said dozens of times that her book was her own memoir and how she changed in the end. Everyone in the media is portraying her as this BITCH FROm Hell. I would rather raised my kids this way, why do I say that? Because the positive results outweighs when you dont.....
devonferris 6 months ago
Respond to this video... I remember myself when I was young I hated everything my parents told me to do, but as I grew up I saw all the benefits it produced and I thank them for it. The day that your parents stop being hard on you is the day they stop CARING..and for you to compare her ways as Nanking massacre is a mental sickness to your part I think. You are going overboard gust like everyones who is commenting and hating on her methods and race. You are as racist as they are...
devonferris 6 months ago 5
Respond to this video... I would rather produce a hard working kids that becomes successful than produce a person who kills, shoots people and molest kids that so many western people seem to produce. Good luck on that.
devonferris 6 months ago
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why be successful if you cant be happy?
sammiton1 8 months ago
Somebody else's idea of success is better than your personal happiness? BULLSHIT!
Jinflower23 8 months ago
PEOPLE NEED TO READ THE END OF THE BOOK....REALLY. SHE LEARNED FROM HER MISTAKE ALREADY....
c830124 8 months ago
@salma19100 I agree that forcing your kid to become a doctor is awful, though. But I don't think that is Amy Chua's view.
EmeraldSong 8 months ago
@salma19100 not at all...Tiger mother parenting does not "force you into a particular path." Amy Chua's book, first of all, is a memoir...not a parenting book. But as far as her parenting style she said herself that her aim was never to limit her child's choices but to develop a work ethic and a self discipline and self worth that will ALLOW you to do follow whatever path you choose as far as you want to.
EmeraldSong 8 months ago
Personally, I think Amy Chua is the reason why Chinese people can never produce a Steve Jobs or Lady Gaga. Tiger mother parenting (which forces you into a particular path) will never encourage innovation or to follow your dreams. Outliers follow their dreams and passions, and not what their parents tell them to do.
salma19100 8 months ago 5
@salma19100 true chinese may have less outliers, that one star out of a million, but they will always have hundreds of thousands of decent, well-educated, brilliant minds out of a million. But America's blind promotion of innovation risks the result of producing extreme idiosyncratz who may not always benefit the society
papafish0 6 months ago
@salma19100 Umm you probably don't know this but China is gonna overtake US as the next economic superpower in 30 years time. Besides they do have the Steve Jobs' though not the Lady Gaga's. But who wanna be Lady Gaga outside US anyway. Only Americans love crazy people.
giriisindahouse 6 months ago 15
@giriisindahouse HAHAHHAA SO I agree with you 100%...
devonferris 6 months ago
@giriisindahouse I'd bet in less than 30 years...much less. People in the U.S. will have to get used to how the "real world" operates, with closer to global median pay for unskilled labour (if you're lucky enough to have a job), a lack of safety concerns/laws for unskilled jobs, no real workers compensation...all very quickly. They're already beginning to shift towards it with minimum sentences and prison slave labour...so maybe they'll weather this storm :)
newguy33X 4 days ago
@salma19100 you dont understand it is the discipline that tiger mothers instill that makes them superior...Western society lacks a lot of discipline and work ethic... I am talking about working 12 hour days, 6 or 7 days a week
hudsonjamesc 6 months ago
@salma19100 - HAHAHA Your a Douche, have you even read the BOOK? if you have read the book you would know she is not even FAR A tiger mom the media frenzy is claiming to be. It is a typical asian parents. China don't have Steve and Gaga but they sure have magority of asians smarter than your ass, but besides WHO IN THEIR RIGHt mind wants to be like LADY GAGA?? Only insane people like you I guess.
devonferris 6 months ago
Respond to this video... and 5 other idiot insane people thumbs up your comment..
devonferris 6 months ago
@salma19100 Very well stated.
StevenCBlah 6 months ago
@salma19100
They are one in a million. She is following the safe path.
HelloStanleyHello 6 months ago
I find it hard to believe that someone can ever become highly proficient at something, create a new law, cure a disease, ect.. without actually investing time and effort. However, the debate is on whether we should force our children, or 'encourage' our children to direct their attention. I have nothing against encouraging children by providing them books, computers, and other environmental opportunities. But 'forcing' a child , via emotional pressure is limited in how much it can do.
zadeh79 9 months ago
@zadeh79 A tiger mom may raise a child to obtain a Master's or PHD degree, but 'giftedness' cannot be forced into a person. Higher levels of insight require broad and open minds. Restricting a child's activities, limits their range of experiences, and results in a type of intellectual lop-sidedness, which ultimately limits real world problem solving ability. Real world problem solving ability requires a broad range of specific (and deep) knowledges, and their experimental products.
zadeh79 9 months ago
I don't understand parents who monitor their kids schoolwork and progress like it's their job. I finished high school and college because I knew it's what I had to do if I didn't want to work at burger king forever. Nobody had to hover over me and I'll be damned if I do that for my kids.
StephanieLin 9 months ago 2
@StephanieLin yes, good for you....but a lot of kids dont turn out as well as u did. Amy's kids turned out fine(not resenting her) so whts ur point?
jaycbll 9 months ago
Amy Chua is an attention whore like the rest of realty T.V. stars. Her immigrant parents didn't suffer hardship in the U.S.. Her father received full scholarship to MIT graduate school at age 25 and probably made a very nice living soon after graduating. She was born in the good 'ol U.S.A. to parents with high IQs and very nice incomes. C'mon...it's not like her dad was slaving away all day at a Chinese restaurant and her mom worked as a nanny. She had all the ingredients for success.
timlin0607 10 months ago
@timlin0607 i see...im sure it was easy to abandon his family, come to a new country, new language, get a scholarship(easy as anything) and start a new life(with his wife) and raise kids.....>_>. getting to upper-middle class in a new country shouldve been real easy for them.
the nonsense u wrote up can only be justified if ur aged 15 or less OR american(in which case i forgive u. its not ur fault.)
p.s u failed when u used the word "probably"
jaycbll 9 months ago
SO TRUE AMERICAN MOM WANT ONLY WHAT PEOPLE CAN SEE ON THE OUTSIDE ... NOT INSIDE
2submit 10 months ago
If an athlete wants to succeed, they need to work hard.
If a singer wants to succeed, they need to work hard. I think Tiger Mom is someone that will produce excellence.
TheRyuya123 10 months ago
did you really write a book derrick?
faithbringsit 10 months ago
My tiger mother was worse. I wrote a book detailing my experiences and how I have terrible relations with her now.
Tiger Mother: Son of a Bitch By Derrick Lin
moshetbuitz 11 months ago 16
she eats one sprout,2 prawns and 6 muscle a day this is the woman you are talking about her husband is always shunt down he even needs permission to blink
gsm73 1 year ago
Duh, you think so? Conservative Christians have known this forever! The friends of children came from liberals. Finally some light is shinning on these idiot liberals.
Read the Bible about rearing children. Find the truth!
Walhei960 1 year ago
@Walhei960 go to hell fag.
cpretartedmuch 1 year ago
Chinese kids are treated like kings these days. Every middle-class Chinese kids have servants, private rides to international schools, and the love of 4 grandparents per kid. I think ""tiger mom" is not "real" Chinese anymore.
mercedescl 1 year ago
@mercedescl i agree that the "tiger mom" way of raising isn't a real representation of ALL chinese people..some but not all.
as a matter of fact, Amy Chua's book is being marketed in China as written by an american mom. they have her on the cover with an american flag.
the difference in marketing is because most chinese mothers(who live in China) wouldn't be interested in reading a book about "chinese parenting"(not that there is one way of homogeneous parenting style in china).
heomak 1 year ago
@mercedescl let me rephrase.of course, amy chua is american too! american is a nationality as opposed to just one specific ethnicity.
but i think you get what i'm getting at. i visited shanghai a few years back and you're right.the kids there(atleast in the cities) grow up very privileged with nannies, housekeepers, personal drivers who drive them everywhere. and there are many chinese parents who don't impose too much like amy chua(academically speaking).
heomak 1 year ago
@mercedescl excuse me? servants? international schools? i think you need to check your facts ASAP
PurpleGlitterCat13 9 months ago