Chinese mothers If you ask parents all over the world, what they wish for their children, most of them would answer that their children should have a happy life. Does it mean that parents dictate every single step for their kids to take? When a child get used to follow orders from his/her parents all the time and doesn’t have any kind of freedom in his/her spare time, wouldn’t this dictatorial upbringing and zero tolerance toward the child lead to weak points and errors in child’s life? To get
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forth a distinct character. From the start, she identifies herself as a tough and strict “Chinese mother”. Throughout the piece she uses several personal experiences that support this assertion. The reader recognizes a sense of confidence from Chua as she repeatedly contrasts Western-parenting ideals from Chinese-parenting ideals. As far as her credibility as an author, it is questionable. She writes, “ Chinese parents believe that their kids owe them everything. The reason for this is a little unclear…”
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Tiger vs a Cat -Difference between Chinese and Western Education- Yu Kang Pace University Fall 2011 ELI 084A Midterm Research Paper Tara Vassallo November 9, 2011 Abstract According to A cultural perspective for the differences between Chinese education and Western education, there are considerable differences between Chinese and Western education due to the influence of culture and history. What’s more, the article- Views on differences between Chinese and Western education from quality
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Essay of the article: “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior” The writer of the article, Chua, uses the terms “western mother” and “Chinese mother”, respectively about a mother who doesn’t expects a lot from one’s child and a mother who doesn’t accept lesser than the best. Chau, who herself is a “Chinese mother”, means that the “Chinese mothers” believe in and support their kids more than the stereotype western mother does. According to her ”nothing is fun until you are good at it”, and therefore
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2015 Parenting: Amy Chua vs. Hanna Rosin Is there a right way to raise your child? There are really no set rules on how to raise your child, as we can see throughout the articles written by Amy Chua, a self-described “Chinese Tiger Mom” and Hanna Rosin, a “Western Mother,” in The Wall Street Journal in January 2011. These articles show that the two authors have completely different parenting styles. On one hand, Amy Chua believes kids should not go to sleepovers, be in school plays, and get
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am a Chinese girl. I adhered to my parents’ whishes that I get top grades and perform well in the activities they had chosen for me—I did homework for hours after school to get straight As, practiced piano to perfection, and spend grueling weekends learning Chinese calligraphy and painting with brushes and ink. I once felt like I was a bird being captured in a cage by my parents and decided to be myself, but after years of wasting time to enjoy freedom, I realized that although my Chinese tiger
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The Roar of the Tiger Mom Had I grown up with Tiger parents, I would have probably been the valedictorian of my class only filled with sadness and stress. Why be successful if it can’t be enjoyable? In “The Roar of the Tiger Mom”, the author Amy Chua says that the reason why Chinese parents raise stereotypical successful children is because of their strict parenting. In contrast she says that Western parents are not which is where I disagree. Growing up and being the first child, I was really
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Amy Chua sparked a lot of conversation and controversy with her Wall Street Journal article “Tiger Mom” referring to the fact (in her opinion) that Chinese mothers are superior to Western mothers when it comes to raising successful and productive kids. (Chua) Amy Chua believes Western mothers don’t have the tough love techniques that Chinese mothers possess in order to carry out the necessary task in raising productive kids. She gives an example of her then 7 year old daughter Lulu who at the time
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Comparison of Child Rearing Practices Donna Sarvis ANT 101 – Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Instructor – David Jenkins September 2, 2013 Comparison of Child Rearing Practices The purpose of this paper is to express the different ways culture affects child-rearing practices. Culture and child rearing are both essential in child development. Culture and ethnicity can have a deciding effect on the child-rearing techniques that families implement throughout the world. Differences such
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cultivated person who had the ability to reach out and bring forth a positive impact on the lives of those that resided in her community. Marguerite was a young girl who was trapped in her own shell and had a hard time speaking to, so much, that her mother thought that Sister Flowers could assist with breaking her out of this structure. Mrs. Flowers begun to gain unbelievable control over Marguerite and over a period of time, Marguerite would considered Sister Flowers to having tremendous influence
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