The Barbarity of Chinese Mothers

The Barbarity of Chinese Mothers

As the Paramount Leader of China, Hu Jintao, the Chinese Tiger Father, wings it back to the homeland after eating alive the American dove, there’s a new the talk of the town, the Chinese Tiger Mother, Amy Chua.

The Yale Law School professor and author of The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Chua doesn’t pull many punches on what she believes is the proper upbringing of children in America. In a Wall Street Journal article, “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior,” Chinese-American mother Chua unequivocably outlines her, and the Oriental philosophy, on why they are superior. In essence, they care far more about their kids’ academic lives than their social lives.

That parenting approach results in successful and accomplished kids but at a cost, some say, which raises the question of what America and Americans want most from and for our kids–success and accomplishment or happy-go-lucky dolts.

That Chinese kids almost always outshine their non-Oriental counterparts shouldn’t be a revelation to any parent with children in American public schools. Unless those parents are totally ignorant, they must have noticed that the kids who invariably excel academically, win awards–and not for Athlete of the Year– and get scholarships to the best colleges and universities in the land are children of Chinese, (and Indian), heritages.

While not disparaging other parents, although she very reasonably looks askance at the American obsession with inculcating a sense of self-esteem in their kids above all else and with education experts who insist that learning has to be fun, Chua has other priorities. Some of those priorities and do’s and don’ts would cause busybody self-esteemers to grab the phone and notify Child Protection Services of abuse.

While millions of other kids are watching child porn on MTV’s “Skins,” her kids are being subjected to what American, Western ”progressives” might charge is parental abuse. The true abusers is a matter of debate.

For example, Mrs. Chua forbids her two daughters . . .
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