There are distinct differences between the Chinese culture parenting style and the Western, but the key commonality is that both parents desire the success for their child’s future. Chua, starts her article by addressing the most common question. “How Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids?”(Chau1). Her answer is quite simple: most of the things that other children are allowed to do, hers were not. Take playing an instrument for an example.
In other words, Western parents are concerned about their children’s psyches. They assume strength, not fragility, and as a result they behave very differently. Page 3 They seem to have a very different view of how to respond to a “bad” grade. This is only a stereotypical Western family’s reaction, but it looks like there is much more room for the emotional part of a child, than there is in a Chinese family. I don’t think that we should jump ahead to the conclusion, but it seems like both parts
Chua’s text is very harsh toned, yet effective due to the use of all three appeals: Ethos, Logos, and Pathos. The author is raised by Chinese parents, which defines a big part of who she is. In the text Chua uses Ethos to establish her personal experience with parenting. She chooses a hard, and a time consuming parenting technique “ The Chinese method” to raise both of her daughters. For instance:“ A lot of people wonder how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids well I can tell them, Bachour 2 !
These two methods typically occur in two different cultures; western culture and Chinese culture. In the article “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” by Amy Chua, a professor at Yale Law School, USA she discusses the differences on how Chinese mothers raise their children opposed to how western mothers raise theirs and she tells us why she thinks that the Chinese method has worked best for her. We know from the article that Amy Chua is Chinese and that she has grown up in a Chinese household. She therefore knows how it is to be raised by parents who use very strict guidelines and methods on their children in terms of raising them. However Amy Chua, and a huge variety of Chinese parents, mostly mothers, seemingly think that these methods actually work, and therefore use them on their own children.
The point that Amy Chua stresses the most in Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother is the difference between “Chinese parenting” and “Western parenting.” It is clear that in her opinion Chinese children excel more than American children because they are constantly being pushed by their mothers to be the best at everything they do. There are even studies Chua quotes that suggest the same thing: 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, roughly 0% of the Chinese mothers said that they believe their children can be ‘the best’ students, that ‘academic achievement reflects successful parenting,’ and that if children did not excel at school then there was ‘a problem’ and ‘parents were not doing there job.’ (5). Whether this study and her book proved that Chinese parenting is better than Western parenting is not the point to be made. However there is much to be said for parents encouraging their children to strive to do well and not give up. A child who grows up to have poor work ethics and a track record of laziness will typically come from an upbringing where they were neglected or never pushed to do much of anything.
There’s a gap there between LuLing and Ruth. They have different perspective about what ‘privacy’ and ‘individualism’ are. Individualism In my opinion of the American individualism, it means the American parents always respect children’s ideas and seldom intervene their decisions or developments. While in China or the orient society, people treat family status seriously. For Chinese, children or youngsters’ decisions should be taken parents’ considerations.
Compare/Contrast Essay In ancient Chinese and Indian societies, women were not thought highly of, however they did play differing significant roles in their own societies. Their main points of significance were found in the qualifications for a wife, duties inside the home, and the relationship between them and their husbands. Chinese and Indian women are very similar in their societies because, although they go about it in different ways, they both have the ultimate goal of making their husbands, families, and villages look good. Qualifications for a wife are where the Chinese and Indian women differ the most. Chinese women are supposed to appear modest, which is why they must ever use inappropriate language, always keep their clothes on and fresh, and hide their chastity, if they have any.
Tiger Mom’s parenting is a form of empowerment in my opinion. Tiger Mom’s have a way of wanting you to do better in life and especially in the future. If more mothers parented the way Amy Chua did, there would definitely be more gifted children in the world. “Never, ever disgrace me like that again,” Chua’s father told her (18,2), this to me in a since is empowerment because the mean and negative things can infact make children want to push themselves to do better. Many children in an America are lazy and don’t strive to give themselves goals, especially academically.
The Daughters in The Joy Luck Club battle the cultural differences between the ancient values of their immigrant mothers and the American way of life they live in. In China, the mothers were taught strength of character was built through obedience. In modern American, the daughters are exposed to a society where women have more freedom of expression. Even clothing is different in each culture. The daughters are being raised on conflicting cultural differences.
This essay, mainly focusing on Suyuan Woo and her daughter June, is aiming to further analyze the causes and manifestations of this complicated mother-daughter relationship. The relationship is by no means conflicting and it is not hard to understand. First of all, the conflict is due to the daughters’ attitudes towards their Chineseness, which can be normally understood as the Chinese character and traditional culture, in all, it can be understood as the temperament of a Chinese. Different from their mothers, the daughter generation is born and raised in America, what they have experienced is enculturation, and they are trying to get rid of their Chineseness and every influence of the mother generation. Far from knowing Chinese culture and without the awareness to know, the mother generation is alien and ridiculous to them.