For those interested in reading reviews (by Conservatives. They're easy to spot because their concern for the authors daughters are evident), just visit Amazon. The descriptions of Chua's cruelty towards her own children should make your stomach turn.
I failed to mention that the Liberals LOVE her. Are we surprised?
The turned stomachs, however, fail to answer the question of why such a small minority -less than 3% of the population - manages to take 20% of the places in our top universities. And lets not fool ourselves, if it were not for active discrimination against them (by eminently enlightened liberals no less) they would be at 50%.
And this superiority in academics starts very early. The reasons can only be “tiger mothers”, AKA a rather fundamental cultural influence, or genetics. Better for all of us if the reason for this is “tiger mothers”, because there is a hope of adaptation. If its genetics, forget it, we are doomed.
Cruelty or otherwise is irrelevant. Its all about superiority.
Is this Chinese mothers of boys, or girls ?
Because it does make a difference, in China.
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Didn’t they make a movie out of that ? Crouching Tiger-Hidden Dragon. Which was a cool chick fight.
I fit a lot of stereotypes in that one paragraph...lol
She threw a hand made card back at her child and said it was not good enough? Wow. Doesn’t make for great childhood memories. I think there’s more to life than being able to attend Harvard.
My wife is Chinese. The answer is no.
If on the other hand the question is "Are overbearing mothers better than loving, caring mothers?" then the answer is absolutely not.
No
I asked a tiger once if she ate her own young. She said, “Yes, if they don’t get into Harvard.”