To make her point clear she uses a lot of pathos and a lot of examples from experiences with herself and her two daughters, Louisa and Sofia. At the beginning when she tells the stories about her daughters trying to fight back you think ’what a terrible mother’, but she uses this feeling to support the view the readers have on the Chinese mothers as being mean to their kids so that afterwards she can tell how it turned out good and therefor the way she raises her kids is the best. Amy Chua has a high ethos because she is a professor at Yale which is a very respected job, and as a parent it makes her more reliable because she tells the reader that her parents treated her the same way that she treats her daughters, and as we can see she has been very successful. Also she uses loghos: ”In one study of 50 Western American mothers and 48 Chinese immigrant mothers, almost 70 % of the Western mothers said either that ”stressing academic success is not good for children” or that ”parents need to foster the idea that learning is fun”. By contrast,
This is the first time that Kingston explicitly tells which additions to the story are her own. Not only is she referencing the story at hand, but she is also alluding to her life. While her mother very much colored her childhood, Kingston will be dictating the direction of the rest of her life. Kingston tells the story of Ts’ai Yen, a poetess captured and made to live with barbarians. Towards the end of the tale, Kingston tells of a song Ts’ai Yen sings: “Her words seemed to be Chinese, but the barbarians understood their sadness and anger…her children did not laugh, but eventually sang along” (209).
<br>Some children do what their parents want out of respect and obedience, just as Jing-mei in the short story “Two Kinds†<br> <br> The short story “ Two Kinds†by author Amy Tan depicts the life of a young Chinese immigrant girl and her family. The young girl’s name is Jing-mei. Jing-mei’s mother always wanted the best for her. She wanted her daughter to be a prodigy at age nine. Jing-mei’s mother chose the type of prodigy she would be.
It was harder for women because lower class women had to leave the inner quarters because they need to feed there family’s. In “A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Women” by Ida Pruitt, it is a first-hand look at the life of a lower class women in the late late-Imperial China. Ning Lao Taitai’s life is described and how as a lower class women and her struggle with Confucian values. Ning pre-married life was much like girls of upper class families. She was able to play with any children, it didn’t matter what gender, until she was thirteen.
In Edith Eaton read she writes about how Pan, a Chinese girl, born in a foreign society all her life still manages to respect her native culture and puts it before anything or anyone. Eaton shows that no matter how much you value a person, your religion or culture will always mean more to a person since it defines who you are as a person. The same applies to the short story written by Pauline Johnson “The Red girls’ Reasoning”. In this narrative Johnson tells a story about a young Indian girl, Christie, who is married to a White man named Charlie. In this narrative the readers see that Charlie considers his culture and nationality much more superior to his wife’s but Christie values both the cultures equally because they represent the two individuals.
Shirley family holds on to their Chinese tradition; they also adapted to the United States way of living. She had to go to a new school in Brooklyn. On Shirley first day of school she was nervous, and all Shirley wanted to do is try to fit in with the others. As Shirley adapted to the culture Shirley met her Brooklyn hero, a black baseball player by the name of Jackie Robinson. Shirley Temple Wong is a young girl, a girl whom never loses her connection of her birth.
The poem begins with the perspective of the sister in China as she describes the tradition of her people and the adaptations they have made. After some brief background into the Chinese culture, Song moves to focus on the relationship between the speaker and her sister. “And the daughters were grateful: They never left home. To move freely was a luxury stolen from them at birth” (Song); Song uses these lines to describe the realities that come with living in China and the idea that one may never actually leave to discover America. In the first part of the poem Song conveys that the life lived in China is not a glorious one.
According to Chua, Chinese parents do not only set strict rules and regulations that their children have to abide by, but they also use negative reinforcement when their children do not want to obey their orders. In contrast, western parents believe that it is unnecessary to control their children preferences such as, no watching T.V, studying excessively and only participating in extracurricular activities that they are assigned to be successful throughout life. However, Chua claims that the children brought up by the “Chinese mother” style of parenting still turn out not only to be mentally, physically, and emotionally stable but happy and as well as successful later on in life. Chua says she knows this because the “Chinese mother” methods help her raise two successful kids. She gives a list of things that her children were not allowed to do, which consist of them not taking part in any school plays or getting any grades less than an A and that it all paid off for her in the end.
Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior The article ” Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” is a new article, written by Amy Chua in the beginning of 2011. The text is about the Chinese way of raising kids, and the comparisons in the article gives us a view of what the pros and cons are, when it comes to high expectations and stereotypical raised kids. In the beginning of the text Amy Chua has included a column with things she never would’ve allowed her own kids to do, and this is actually some of the things, which builds the stage for many of her comparisons through the text. Things like sleepovers, attending in a school play or to watch television are in the western world regarded to be very normal stuff to do when you are a kid, but in China it’s not the kids who decide what talent they want to cultivate, but the parents. In most cases they choose school and a classic instrument to be the first priorities for their kids.
Response to Article “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior”: Justification In the article, “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior,” Amy Chua argues her point that Chinese parents have the best ways in parenting their children in comparison to the ways of Western parents. She supports her point by giving a personal example of how she parents her daughter with harsh discipline and how it proved to be effective for her daughter. I disagree with the author’s position and find that this is not a valid claim. Amy Chua writes that the best way to protect their children is to prepare them for the future by testing their abilities and reinforcing strict rules. Chua emphasizes that the different parenting mode Chinese parents use in comparison to that of Western parents reflect how “they would give up anything for their children.” However, from children’s perspectives, would children appreciate and acknowledge such a parenting mode and believe that their Chinese parents truly care them?