Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Public School Kids Are Just Tougher
While most other private schools in the city declared closed even on yesterday, public schools are still open--I am sure Amy Chua approves though I doubt any of her kids go to public school well that's beside the point. Anyway. Public school kids are just tougher. I guess.
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Oh, you read Chua's article too. It stirred lots of discussion among my Asian friends. I think most parents secretly think that they are superior to other parents. Don't you think?
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Yes, I do think like that. It's a secret how do you know? At the same time, I know I am delusional.
ReplyDeleteA lot of parents live their failed dreams through their children. Though that's the not the case of Amy Chua. She belongs to the second category, she has already won and she makes sure her winning streak extends to her children. She hates losers.
Hey, parents have to be a bit delusional. Otherwise, how can they keep doing what they do everyday. No offense, parenting isn't easy.
ReplyDeleteWhat my Asian friends hate most about the article seem to be the reminder of their own shitty childhood. I don't think Chua is completely off base but the tone of the article is off-putting. She could have packaged it a bit nicer.
Exile
Ha ha, she doesn't need to be nice. Humility is one Chinese ingredients she doesn't need. Somehow I wish I had that kind of shitty upbringing. I think I know where she is coming from. She can brag about herself and her kids all she wants. I mean what she says is really nothing new to me. And I kind of like the way she says it with smug and all just for added entertainment value.
ReplyDeleteSmug is her middle name. It's her writing style though like it or not. I'm old school (very Chinese to judge someone by what they do for a living!). If someone made it to be a Professor at Yale, I mean for god's sake I will give her benefit of the doubt. I wish I had that kind of upbringing too. Just imagine how much smarter I would have been, haha...I don't mind the model minority stereotypes like some of my friends do, I just suck them all up. Oh, yes, nothing new to those of us who were from Hong Kong. If you translate her piece into Chinese, it'd be like "what's the big deal?"
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I've seen worse parents in Hong Kong than Chua. If one thinks her way works, wait until you read this from The Diplomat about over-protective, demanding parents in China. Parents like Chua are great manufacturers of little robots with little, if any, creativity. Little wonder that the Industrial Revolution and the advent of computers did not take place in China.
ReplyDeleteExile: Yeah she is pretty smug and her kids too. look at the picture at wsj. They earned their smugness. What can I say?
ReplyDeleteSidnet Sweet: Wow, Amy Chua wouldn't approve the message.
I glanced through her book (called Hyberpower or whatever) a couple of years ago, nothing too original. Not enough to write a book anyway. Ditto her experiences as a tiger mother.
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