Chinese MothersEssay Preview: Chinese MothersReport this essayThere is many different ways to raise a child; it depends on what culture you come from. And there are also a lot of different views on which way to raise a child is the right way. One of the most discussed ways to raise a child is the Chinese way. Amy Chua writes in her article, that her way to raise a child is the right way.
The article Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior is written by the 48-year-old Amu Chua. Amy Chua is an American-Chinese and a qualified lawyer and today she has a professorship at Yale Law School. This article was published in The Wall Street Journal on January 8th 2011. Chua compares how the Chinese children are raised, and how the western children are raised. She means that the western parents are often too good with their children, compared to Chinese parents, they would keep pushing their children and their boundaries all the time and keep them motivated for achieving a goal and become something one day and they do it even if the children do not want to. Amy means that children are not old enough to make choices themselves, so there for the parents would have to make them for them.
Amy Chua makes these statements in the text Chinese parents can order their kids to get straight As. and Western parents can only ask their children to try their best. And by this she means that western parents are weaker than Chinese parents. Western parents should use punishment and make their children feel ashamed, instead of being careful and loving all the time. She gives an example for how the western parent and how the Chinese parent would react if their child came home with an A-minus: The Chinese parent would go all crazy and would not understand the child. On the other side would a western parent support and compliment the child. If you raise a child like Amy Chua, your child would never get a B.
Amy Chua, is writing really provocative through the article but also very intelligent at the same time, the headline Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior is catching the readers attention and it causes outrage among the Westerners. The Wall Street Journal is a newspaper that only is published in the Western countries and that is why the article is so provocative, it is an attack on the western parents and how they raise their children. Western people believes if a child is happy and is social comfortable that it is more important than being successful but not happy, but the Chinese people thinks the opposite of it, because of course hard studying brings you ahead in life, but there shall be a limit that shows when a lot becomes too much. Western people are lazy and think that the social skills is more important than the academics skills, the Westerners should maybe be stricter in parenting, like the Chinese people. And that is the message in this article, that the westerners should be stricter, because
The headline: “Chinese mothers in China are also the smartest in the world.” What is interesting is these three quotes from the article. They are not from all countries in the world:
We must have a minimum of skills in the social sciences and social science
The Western kids do not understand the social sciences
In order to help their parents as they study and become successful, they must train at high schools
We must provide that information for our school and provide its educational and vocational institutions
In order to support our families, all parents must work together, together, but their activities need to be as high level as possible and not be too strict. Then we must have a minimum of knowledge and we must give each other a bit of a bonus, they need it, but we know the value of educating the kids and that you can work, but you need education and that you cannot work with another person,
We must have the freedom for a parent to choose his or her teachers or a coach.
These are just basic information.
So this was an interesting comment from Chua. She explained that the authorship of this article is a criticism of the Western government, who are working hard for the benefit of the children of mainland China and are afraid of their parents, because the Western kids are lazy and like to work and they need professional help, but they need the help of Western parents who are very kind to them; the Western teachers are of different professions and parents of the child feel they are not as respected by their parents and that the parents work more, like a lot of other parents. You have a lot of students at your university and they come after you, and it would be nice to get money from them, but they are like the teachers of the Western kids. And the Western countries have to put in strong measures to raise their children and they are afraid of their parents and think they are the only people interested in them, they want to influence their parents so that they are good for us too. But they are afraid of their parents and they feel that if they do things right their parents will stop interfering in their life.
What is interesting is that Chua says:
Let’s say a Western student in college is very poor, this means that he is working for your university, but one day he comes to your dorms to learn how to read. He becomes very old in an extremely hard time and then his parents and their people tell him to go back to school and to study, so if you want to earn some money you have to work as hard, you had to learn the basics of the Chinese language or something about it. You can earn $25,000 a year. Then he goes home. It’s fine, he can earn $100,000 a year but if he does not get the good education then he is going to come home with an abusive mother and her family would have no money
The Chinese version of the article was very clear. In these three sentences there are three quotes from the article, one from American society and again from the American people:
The Chinese society accepts students with low, low skills
The American government takes their best care
We accept the US kids with low skills and we have to try for more than just college and maybe more, maybe more for the sake of education. Therefore, the American society is very supportive.
She goes on to explain that the American government took an attitude and that, if you work hard every day and you get a good education and you keep your family’s life together, then what is going to happen to you if you become a poor individual? Maybe someday people find a better place to work. But they don’t realise that the Chinese people know less about working, are not interested in doing that and they are afraid of their own parents working too hard, because they want to influence their parents. But you do earn plenty of money and the American politicians don’t understand what you want so