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.
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.
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
The daughters are being raised on conflicting cultural differences. In China, the mothers were raised to learn by obedience. It was a common belief in Chinese culture that “children must be must be obedient and imitate the elderly because they have learned wisdom through their elders.” (Lee) In chapter 7 Suyuan explains to her daughter, there are “only two kinds of daughters…those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!” The idea of a woman following her own mind was considered a poor character flaw in ancient China. That is how Suyuan and the rest of the mothers in the joy luck club were raised. In contrast, the same idea of a woman following her own mind is considered normal in American society.
Amy Chua is a professor of Law at Yale, an author of “World on Fire”, and a Chinese mother. In Chua’s “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” (an excerpt from Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother), Chua takes a serious approach demonstrating the Chinese parenting method, and how it is effective in her life. Her main claim from this article is to state the differences between Western; Chinese parents, and how great Chinese parenting method is. The text is also connected to the identity theme; it conveys different aspects of figuring out one’s self , and how the parenting method is a big part of that. Chua’s text is very harsh toned, yet effective due to the use of all three appeals: Ethos, Logos, and Pathos.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Response to Mother Tongue Amy Tan, the author of “Mother Tongue” shares her personal opinion upon the English language, and the power that language could influence us these days. She is fascinated with language, spending most of her time thinking how language can induce one’s emotion, creates a visual image, elaborates on one’s ideas, or simply tell a truth. We could not imagine how powerful language could be, and how language could be used as a tool for her. As a Chinese-American, the form of English she uses been fully influence by her mother, but this does not mean that her mother’s English is affecting how she writes, nor affecting Amy to use standard English. She pointed out that mother tongue could affect everyone one of us, just like how she is affecting her husband without noticing.