Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior The article ”Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” focuses on the fact that chinese children are turning out to be so stereotypically successful. Amy Chua points out that there is a big difference between Chinese mothers and Western parents and the way they raise their kids: ”What Chinese parents understands is that nothing is fun until you’re good at it. To get good at anything you have to work, and children on their own never want to work, which is why it is crucial to override their preferences. This often requires fortitude on the part of the parents because the child will resist; things are always hardest at the beginning, which is where Western parents tend to give up.” I think this quote makes a good picture of how she thinks of herself as a parent and the Western people as parents. 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.
She comes with examples throughout the book on how she raised her two girls. Studies show that Chinese parents use around 10 times as long studying with their kids everyday compared to the Western parents. Chua has ten rules that her girl were never allowed to break: • They may not attend a sleepover. • They must not have a play date. • They mustn’t be in a school play.
If a family ignores the policy, and has more than one child, they will have to pay a large fine; can lose their job, and any bonuses at work. The policy has a few exceptions, for example people with no siblings are allowed more than one child, along with rural families, ethnic minorities, and foreigners living in china. In rural areas, families can apply for a second child if their first child is a girl, disabled or has a mental illness. The policy caused a drop in fertility rate, from 3 children per woman in 1980, to 1.54 children per woman in 2011. Chinese authorities consider the policy, a great success, as it was estimated that China had three to four hundred million less people in 2008 than it would have done, had the policy not been introduced.
In China its not all about finding the “perfect” match, but more about finding someone you are compatible with and can be with over the long term. Some Chinese stay married for their entire lives and never truly are in love. Most Chinese couples do not have sexual relations until they are married. Chinese consummate their wedding after huge wedding celebrations with both family and friends. In the United States it seems everyone is seeking Mr. or Mrs. “right” and there are so
Chua listed all the things she doesn’t allow her children to do, and she believes that it is correlated to how successful her children will be. There are many differences between the ways that Chinese mothers and Western mothers raise their kids according to Chua. Chua points out many differences between Chinese mothers and Western mothers; one of those differences is that Chinese mothers spend ten times longer working with their kids’ academic activities in contrast to Western mothers who prefer to spend more time working with their kids on sport activities than academics. In contrast, Western mothers believe that academic success should not be something that their children stress about. According to Chua there are three differences that cause the Chinese mothers to be “superior.” First, Chinese parents don’t care as much about their kid’s self-esteem as Western mothers do.
In 1979, when the One Child Policy was introduced, the purpose was for the Chinese population to decrease. With the policy in place, it has stopped 400 million births happening. This is a huge amount for only 35 years of being in place, so isn’t China happy with the results it has obtained? China, still believes that it needs to carry on the policy even though it has prevented so many births already; however if the policy is to be continued, it is essential for the Chinese government to work on the issue of gender equality. Due to the policy, China has too many men and not enough women, there are 120 men to every 100 girls.
There are many villages in southern part of China where predominantly such women live. This situation has created many social and legal issues, because unlike arranged marriages, polygamy is not forced, it is voluntary. In China, males or more likely to be enrolled in school then females at every level, because of this tendency the gender gap widens with
Some studies show that Chinese parents spend about 10 times as long as Western parents on academic activities with their children on a daily basis. But will discipline and high expectations create content and successful adults or does it in fact create children who will eventually resent their parents? At first the article introduces, which activities her daughters aren’t allowed to do, like sleepovers, watching television or having a playdate, like normal stuff a western child could not live without. But it gets even spicier while one of the activities on the list is that they aren’t allowed to; complain about not being in a school play or choose besides their other obligatory activities, what they want to do in their free time. What is good and bad about Amy’s method can be well discussed, but from a child’s point of view the upright would be; That they would rich their maximum of their abilities and will be prepared to an adult life in the real world with best opportunities to a good and well educated life.
If I would invest the time needed to organize I would have received a better grade. English has never been my forte in high school; I failed one whole semester because I was infected with senioritis. My mentality was that I didn’t HAVE to do anything because graduation was just around the corner, but boy was I wrong. This set of mentality pushed me back in my senior year and it prohibited me from enjoying my last year as my friends were living it up at all the parties while I was home finishing up my online class as a result of my failure. Online classes required self determination and a lot time.
Why most Chinese people have no religion? Many western scholars had studied and researched on it, and the answer is, Chinese culture can be considered as Chinese people’s religion! Chinese culture is based on Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism and etc. Compared with other religions, Chinese traditional culture promulgates properties and meanings of space, society, and human life based on both Philosophy and science. It is highly reasonable, and it can be proved.