No one can deny the superior academic performance and achievement by Asians.
Your reasoning is post hoc ergo propter hoc. Furthermore, Asians aren’t the only academic achievers in history. Having come from a strong Asian cultural background, I can assure you that a majority of my Asian relatives and friends do not resort to the type of “discipline” and abuse the Tiger Mother uses.
It comes down to concentrated commitment to family with a particular focus on academic achievement. Also, the Asians traditions concerning respect towards your elders plays a pivotal role as well in their academic performance.
Thats where we get to the nitty-gritty of the question - what, exactly, make Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese 3-year olds - it starts that young - outperform white, black and hispanic 3-year olds ?
Its NOT an academic tradition. In most cases we are talking about the children or grandchildren of peasants and laborers; I have been to many poor Asian immigrant homes in the US, and in most cases there ARE NO BOOKS in the house.
What we desperately need are detailed comparative time-and-motion studies of these mothers, tiger or otherwise.