Amy Chua (1962- ), better known as Tiger Mom (born in the Year of the Tiger, no less), is an American law professor at Yale and a Chinese mother at home. She has written four books so far:
2002: World On Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability. Free-market capitalism allows ethnic minorities, like Jews or Chinese, to gather huge fortunes, controlling much of a country’s wealth. Democracy, meanwhile, rewards leaders, like Hitler or Mugabe, who appeal to the hatred of the ethnic majority.
2009: Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance – and Why They Fall. How the Persians, Romans, Chinese (Tang Dynasty), Mongols, Dutch, British and Americans became hugely powerful, in part by being open to ethnic out-groups. This lack of openness doomed Nazi Germany. The US’s willingness to take in the world’s best and brightest, particularly Jews and Asians, has made it a huge military power.
2011: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. When worlds collide: Chinese parenting meets Western children. Her children seemed to have turned out well, but she nearly lost the love of her youngest daughter.
2014: The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America. The Bootstrap Myth repackaged. She looks at why Mormon, Jewish, Chinese, Iranian, Lebanese, Cuban, Nigerian, West Indian and Cuban Americans do so well in the US. The three traits are:
- superiority complex – thinking your group is better, special or exceptional compared to others. It provides “ethnic armour” against racism, fighting fire with fire.
- insecurity – feeling like you do not measure up.
- impulse control – being disciplined enough to put in tons of hard work.
The measure of success: She does not measure “success” in a consistent way. Generally, she looks for median household income, educational achievement and high position in big companies. Had she measured it by wealth, political power, drop in poverty rates or relative to parents’s education, she would have wound up with different groups. As it was, she left out British Americans and added Nigerian, West Indian and Cuban Americans – but not Cubans who came after 1979.
She credits her own success – being a professor at a top university – to her Triple Package Chinese upbringing. Yet her father was also a professor at a top university (Berkeley). She said he came to the US “with nothing” – yet he had a scholarship to MIT. He came from an upper-class family in the Philippines.
Many of her “successful” “cultural groups” are just middle and upper class people who moved to the US. They did not pull themselves up by their bootstraps: they bought a plane ticket.
Blacks: Racism, though real, is not the main thing holding back native-born Black Americans. Nigerians, after all, come to the US and do much better. She says it is mainly because Nigerians are a Triple Package culture while Black Americans are not. But she is comparing Nigerian immigrants, who were nearly all middle and upper class in Nigeria, with native Black Americans,who are upper, middle and lower class.
– Abagond, 2015.
See also:
- Welcome to Asian American History Month 2015
- Colour-blind racism
- White ethnographic gaze: the 1960s
- Charles Murray
- Steve Sailer
- The Third Enlargement of Whiteness
- The Black middle class in America
- Model Minority + Bootstrap Myth = ?
- Asians: The Republican User’s Guide – see chapter two
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Abagond 
Does anyone have any good sources which review her works, both positive and negative?
Also, she alludes in a few of her books about the unique characteristics of both Chinese and Jewish ethnic groups that cause them to succeed in market driven economies and in the US in particular. Does she have a prognosis then, for Chinese Jews, or some amalgamation of these alleged unique groups? A master elite group for the US?
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Eddie Huang and his brothers openly criticize the Tiger Mom in their Manhattan restaurant Baohaus:
(http://www.baohausnyc.com/about-us/)
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@ Kiwi
Actually that is an interesting inconsistency.
There is nothing wrong with a Chinese woman marrying a White man, per se. But it is odd that while extolling the virtues of Chinese culture, you choose to dilute it’s effect by mixing with White-American culture. Logically, if you thought Chinese culture was such an advantage, why not have it on both sides if at all possible?
Hmmm…
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This makes no sense to me.
When the US made the atom bomb, Asians, particularly Chinese had been barred from entering the USA for over 60 years. Japanese Americans were locked in internment camps. Where did she get her amnesia about US history in saying “willingness to take in the world’s best and brightest”?
The Asian brain drain is mainly a post 70s thing.
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She married a jew, who is basically white. She also loves how the jews are getting so far in live, points out how they are, in difference to all the other immigrants pretty successful in culuture and art, also known as entertainment, not only math and science, like everybody else. Hollywood, books, artists many good ones by jews. I don’t agree with her on many things, but some I find are really helpful and true.
I like what she says to a certain point, since its true that how you work and how your parents raise you, makes a difference, she likes to blend racism out which is wrong though.
Black people could take her book as help though, I like what she says, we should try to raise our children proud and hard working instead of the opposite.
If there are two black people both affected by racism, but one family really wants to move up, really wants to achieve something and puts work into it, see school as really important, I think the children will go further in life, than some other families which I personally know of, this could be in anything.
I never thought like her about nigerians, but since reading her book and looking at my nigirian family roots, I do see what she means to a certain perspective, nigerians are all about making money, everybody wants education and many are doctors, dentist or have other such professions in my family, even though I don’t have much contact with them, also nobody lives in nigeria anymore lol. Still, after getting the degree and a job, they still don’t make so much in many cases.
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They may have been middle class in Nigeria but is that really the same as middle class in the US?
A lot of places have a middle class that in the US we would probably consider poor here.
I wouldn’t say “hardwork can cure anything” but it can help.
But even as hard as asians work and study they still have the bamboo ceiling to deal with.
Also wouldn’t truly feeling superior go against an inferiority complex? But it’s usually the less impressive specimens of society that have any dog in the racism/cultural superiority game anyways.
Also aren’t Mormons and Jews pretty big on helping their own “kind” so to speak and maintaining a strong communal kind of vibe?
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@ Jefe @ V-4
I left out the bit about the atom bomb and rewrote the last paragraph to make the post a bit clearer.
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@ Jefe
The Germans, because of their anti-Semitism, drove out some of their best scientists. Some of them came to the US and helped to make the first atom bomb. Since the 1960s, the Asian brain drain has helped the US to maintain its military edge.
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@ Kiwi
The bit about “Chinese Mothers are Superior” comes from the Wall Street Journal, not her. They basically took the first chapter of her Tiger Mom book and made it into an “essay” and gave it that title without her knowledge. It gives a misleading picture of the book. She says the book was SUPPOSED to be about how Chinese parents are better at bringing up children than Western parents (she uses the word parents, not mother), but it turned out to be about a cultural clash where her younger daughter rebelled.
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@ V-4
Maybe at the foreign exchange rate the Nigerian middle-class would count as poor by US standards, but that would be because the cost of living in Nigeria is lower.
She compares Nigerians living in the US to ALL Black Americans. US Nigerians on average have a higher median household income and are more likely to get into an Ivy League university and therefore are “more successful”. But it is an apples to oranges comparison: I am pretty sure if you compared Black Americans living in Nigeria to ALL Nigerians, you would find that their incomes and educations would be well above the Nigerian average too.
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@Abagond,
Now that you changed the sentence, it makes a bit more sense. I didn’t see how America’s willingness to take in Asians gave it the atom bomb. If anything, as shown in your post on Tsien Hsue-shen, America’s willingness to expel its Asian citizens and residents has helped make other countries strengthen their military might and their infrastructure, e.g., building railroads at the turn of the 20th century or space satellites in the latter half of the 20th century. Why didn’t America’s lack of openness before and during WWII doom it also as was Hitler’s Germany?
If Amy Chua discusses the value of America’s openness, then she should also mention how the USA has suffered under its close-mindedness.
This idea made think of Chin Gee Hee, came to the USA as a railroad and mine labourer, later became a railroad entrepreneur and merchant from Seattle,Washington, who built China’s 2nd railway and the first one in the south China in 1906, with funds raised by Chinese-Americans. His son was the first person of Chinese descent to be born in the State of Washington and Chin Gee Hee played a major role in the Seattle Riots of 1886.
Unfortunately, his railroad was bombed and destroyed in the Sino-Japanese war in 1938, after his death.
There is a memorial and statue in his hometown in Guangdong Province. I have been there. If you do something in the future on the Seattle Riots of 1886 (as previously promised), maybe I can do one on Chin Gee Hee.
(http://www.cinarc.org/Chin_Gee_Hee_ad_1901_Directory_web.jpg)
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@ Jefe
The US did not become a hyperpower till AFTER 1940, after its racial nadir ended. If it was not a country built on immigration, or if it just remained as racist as it was in 1930, then it would not be a hyperpower today. It would still be powerful because of its size, like it was in its war against Japan, but it would not be heads and heels above everyone else militarily. Chua says that China, for example, is not currently on the road to becoming a hyperpower because it is not drawing in the world’s best and brightest.
Your examples only prove her point by showing how important a brain drain is. Deporting Tsien helped to reduce the military edge the US had over China.
Also, keep in mind, that racial and religious tolerance is relative. The US was and is anti-Semitic, for example, but compared to Nazi Germany it was heaven on earth.
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I have to admit. Her triple package rings some truth to Mormons. While there has been a great shift away from the “we are better theme” (mainly to achieve higher conversion rates) secretly many still believe it.
@V-4
“Also aren’t Mormons and Jews pretty big on helping their own “kind” so to speak and maintaining a strong communal kind of vibe?”—-In the case of Mormons yes.
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Ugh, my dislike for Amy Chua is high up there with Michelle Malkin.
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@ Lord of Mirkwood:
Here’s a list that she drew up for her daughters.
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*Sorry, I mean partial list. Wow, she sounds like a peach, doesn’t she?
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@Lord of Mirkwood and @leigh204 – she does indeed seem like an incredibly abusive parent. She essentially treated her children like slaves. If I worked for Child Protection, she would definitely be getting a call and probably be getting arrested.
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Is this a Black blog, or an Asian blog?
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Anonymous, It’s a Ant-racism blog that is celebrating Asian History month.
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@Abagond
Does Abagond agree with that?
That is only partially correct. With 1.4 billion, one could argue that a large percentage of the world’s best and brightest are there within the country already. Movement within the country (say from the west to east) or from the country to city would already be larger than any international migration, even larger than what the USA attracts. You only have to see the world’s largest human migration every year around Chinese New Year.
The USA is the one of the few places that can easily receive new foreigners.
On the other hand, the best and brightest in China, particularly the wealthier ones, are keen to leave — to destinations such as the USA. Comparatively fewer people like Tsien Hsue-shen actually leave the USA.
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On some forum I frequent, a commenter said she actually read Amy Chua’s books. She recalled that she found it ironic Ms. Chua heavily pushed her daughters to be top students yet she mentioned she wasn’t a good enough student to be a doctor or an engineer. How weird is that she received her law degree and couldn’t make it as a lawyer? And she eventually ended up teaching law.
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Is being middle to upper class in a lower or middle income country the same as being MC or UC in the United States?
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@Leigh
That maybe part of the reason she pushed her daughters so hard. She could not achieve, so she pushed them to achieve her dreams.
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I’m going to get blasted for saying this, but..
I believe racism in the US has marginalized *many* African Americans into poor environments. However, the worse part about these poor environments are the anti-social values that run rampant within the culture, and not the lack of resources. Anti-social values are not limited to race and can be found in white trailer parks and ghettos all across the world.
My theory is that the middle and upper classes rely more on appearances in order to get ahead. Social conformity and appropriate public behavior are essential for building social contacts and gaining access to resources (networking). The richer you get the more important this becomes. Poor people on the other hand, tend to care less…
Btw I believe this only holds true in areas with high income inequality where the poor feel relatively deprived (ie the wealth and opulence in close proximity to poverty in urban areas).
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@ The Pragmatist
I don’t think that this is something to deny or get “blasted” for saying. It is a natural result of long-term oppression and denial. People lose hope and once you have lost hope there is almost nothing that can be done to stop anti-social values from creeping in.
– If you don’t believe that the educational system will work for you
– If you don’t believe that the corporations will hire you
– If you don’t believe that people will accept you
Those beliefs leave you with few options other than to remove yourself from the primary culture and it’s benefits and pursue instead an alternate oppositional culture. I’m not saying that the beliefs are valid or that the solution is effective, I’m just saying that you can see how it happens.
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Anti = Against
Social = Society
Adopting an identity that is against the established society.
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@ The Pragmatist
The priority for lower class people is survival, so that’s what their culture is aimed at. That’s the case everywhere and has to do with Black Americans only in the regard that past racism has placed a disproportionate number of them in the lower class. And perhaps because poor Blacks are more visible because they have been concentrated in narrow spaces.
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She is an interesting person who has lived a privileged life and tries to explain away those living in poverty without acknowledging the reality of oppression.
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@Glenn Robinson
“She is an interesting person who has lived a privileged life and tries to explain away those living in poverty without acknowledging the reality of oppression.”
Yes, and her warped and incredibly disturbing and subjective views on parenting and race erode my trust in her geo-political analysis. If a person is so misguided about race and abusing their children how can I trust their judgment on anything? It’s as if you discovered your car mechanic was a child molester.
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Maybe should add this link to the “See Also” list
(https://abagond.wordpress.com/2014/09/27/model-minority-bootstrap-myth/)
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This lady is a bit of a trip and a “tired ” stereotype. She takes passed down advantages and turns them into cultural truisms..hardly a sociologist or anthropologist.
Being a first generation African American female with a medical degree and two graduate degrees who hails from disadvantaged background I can say this: in academia, African Americans, do in fact (from my observations) suffer from a needless inferiority complex and the educational system encourages it.
And Ms Chua? … She’s got some ‘splainin to do.
We are just as smart and brilliant in all disciplines….stop drinking the the white supremacist kool aid..too toxic ..too costly
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The Black American population is higher than the Nigerian population in America. Let’s say there is 1 million Nigerians in the United States and 450,000 have degrees, that’s good and the percentage would come out higher than the Black American degree percentage simply because of the population of people. Even though millions of more Black Americans hold degrees. Let’s say 17 million Black Americans hold a degree. That’s higher than 450,000 but is low for a 40 million+ population.
These numbers are just guesses though.
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Also, getting into an Ivy League is not the ultimate sign of success but is seen as such because of class bias.
Two black men get interviewed for a job. Both have degrees but one went to Howard and the other went to Yale. Even if both men are qualified for the job, who do you think they’ll hire?
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@Lord of Mirkwood
Blast 1
I’m not disagreeing with any of that. In my opinion there are three things holding many (not all) African Americans back: institutionalized racism, internalized racism, and an anti-social culture that has developed from marginalization.
Blast 2
This is on topic because Amy Chua is discussing the impact of culture on economic success of different ethnic groups.
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@Zena,
“Also, getting into an Ivy League is not the ultimate sign of success but is seen as such because of class bias.”
I believe that in rating your children’s or your own success there is only one ‘sign of success’ that matters, are you happy? And a parent that really cares about their children wishes and wants only one thing for them, to be happy.
The first mistake most of us make is to equate success with achievement and accumulation. Happiness has nothing to do with those things.
A recent study discussed in the Huffington Post here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/17/map-happiness-benchmark_n_5592194.html, found that on average money ceases to bring happiness after the first $75,000 per year in earnings. Apparently, after you obtain enough to live on and meet your basic needs money is irrelevant.
I read a story once about a profoundly unhappy millionaire. He had everything he ever wanted accept someone to share it with.
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@kartoffel & king
I agree
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@Zena: The one from Yale gets hired.
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I remember reading about her in a People magazine story and i thought she was horrible especially when she talked about not letting the children have stuffed animals and throwing away a homemade card the children made for her. In my opinion she is a witch.
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@Lord of Mirkwood: HA!HA!
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Ugh. Amy Chua is a great example of somebody who is educated beyond their abilities.
The first two books abagond mentioned were emabrassing attempts to shoehorn a poorly thought aout and weakly reasoned “ideologies” onto historical events to suit her narrative and were signal boosted by the usual suspects (e.g. The Economist, The Guardian, etc.).
The last two, including the one she became famous for are just intellectual clickbait. When you step back and look at it, her parenting techniques had little to do with her daughter(s) getting into Harvard.
Um, she got her BA and JD from Harvard and now teaches at Yale. Their father got his BA from Princeton and JD from Harvard and also now teaches at Yale.
What!? Both of the kids parents have Ivy league undergrad and grad degrees and are current Ivy League professors! The kids are triple legacies and would’ve had to be drooling morons not to get into their mothers alma mater!
Yeah, that “tiger mom” stuff is a lot easier to sell to other people when you know your kids have the hookup.
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..Kiwi your points about the hypocrisy of this confused Chua woman have been on point, and very insightful!
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@ Kiwi, my pleasure and yes!
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guess we are going to get a lot of comments on subjects and topics of sociological interest ,btw what credentials allow for ms.chua to comment and make conclusions on a wide range of sociological issues?
What current sociological findings support her assertions?
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Thinking about it; her philosophy is pretty much par for the course with Republicans.
The bit about her kid and the card makes me think of some other asian thing; that’s kind of a stereo-type.
Like some guy talking about how his father told him that “I love you” was basically white people stuff and that if he wanted to really prove he loved him to get straight A’s.
Don’t know if it was on this board, or a comedian or what but…..that is the stereotype that asians are harsh parents that way.
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@ The Pragmatist (really? lol)
Note how lower-class white communities are rarely, if ever, berated for having “anti-social values.” The whole idea that the value system of the black community is somehow defective is a feint and a ruse.
The real issue is how long-running institutional bigotry has kneecapped the black community into being this nation’s perpetual servant class/punching bag, akin to the Dalits in India or the Burakumin in Japan.
@ Kartoffel
That’s the priority for any oppressed group of people anywhere on the globe. Explains why some groups survive and thrive, even after a massive genocide. Hell, it took Mother Nature’s hand by way of DISEASE to finish off the Tainos and certain native American tribes.
@ Zena
Neither. HR will reach out to a close friend of a friend who went to Princeton and, despite lower quals, will cinch the job without so much as a perfunctory interview.
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@Mack Lyons
Note how lower-class white communities are rarely, if ever, berated for having “anti-social values.”
A quote from the very first paragraph of my comment:
“Anti-social values are not limited to race and can be found in white trailer parks and ghettos all across the world.”
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In that case, Amy Chua is a hypocrite. If she really believed Chinese parents were superior, she would have married a Chinese man.
You are going on the premise that a Chinese man would have her given her personality as portrayed in the media.
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@The Pragmatist
“I believe racism in the US has marginalized *many* African Americans into poor environments. However, the worse part about these poor environments are the anti-social values that run rampant within the culture, and not the lack of resources.”—I fully agree with you. I wish I could add more, but you pretty much said all that needs to be said.
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I am curious on why she is making a career using her maiden name and not her married name?
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I actually enjoyed her book, Battle Hymn of a Tiger Mom. It was a memoir that has more embellishment than reality for sales. The reason I say this is, both daughters were doing their own thing towards the end of the book. The younger daughter was allowed to quit her instrument and they got a pet. Amy Chua is just like any parent trying to do right by their children, with a lot of trial by error. My take away from the book was more like battle hymn of a strict parent turned more understanding/ compromising parent because life’s too short.
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Why would Amy Chua marry a white man or a jew at least?
Get some of that white privilege going on while since women carry the culture getting to keep her kids raised more like her own culture.
That and out of all the white cultures out there Jew culture might be the closest to Chinese culture factoring in social values and prejudices against them.
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@Lord of Mirkwood – if she was really that bad, don’t you think her children would talk about it. They are of age now, especially the one at Harvard. She has a blog too. I mean really sensationalism sells. I’m sure she did some of those things but not to that extent. Do remember the book “A Million Pieces” that sold his memoir as the truth. Later to find out it was a bunch of lies to sale a book. Just saying, I don’t think Amy Chua is the demon that the media is claiming she truly is.
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@ Jefe
As far as I can tell the world’s best and brightest are still coming to the US, at least more so than China.
As big as China is, it is still less than 20% of the world. Even if China gets all the best Chinese minds, but not much else, the US would just need to pull in 40% from the rest of the world to be way ahead.
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@ Kiwi
Chua thinks that Jews and Chinese are alike in many ways. Both are Triple Package cultures, both are rich-but-hated minorities in several countries. So from that way of looking at it, a Jewish husband is near beer.
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@ Mbeti
Miss Chua’s background:
She studied economics as an undergrad at Harvard and has a Harvard law degree. She worked on Wall Street helping to write the business deal that privatized the Mexican telephone company (making Carlos Slim one of the richest men in the world).
She did NOT know about the Persian Empire till a research assistant told her about it. For someone with two Harvard degrees, and for someone who thinks she is qualified to write about history, that is pretty shocking.
She has no formal training in sociology or history. But she does have an Asian face and is willing to write books that fit nicely with White Republican views of race.
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@ Mbeti @ Jefe
Amy Chua pretty much implements chapter two of “Asians: The Republican User’s Guide”:
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2014/09/03/asians-the-republican-users-guide/
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@Jefe
I added that link. Thanks.
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re: Abagond’s statement
Then shouldn’t it then also apply the other way around? Shouldn’t a Jewish woman see Chinese husbands as a near perfect choice, esp. if the kids are raised in the Jewish faith while tying into the husband’s family?.
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In case anyone’s interested, I thought I would share this interesting read. It’s an old article, but still insightful as to how Ms. Chua thinks.
http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/features/amy-chua-philippines-chinese-minority-free-market-democracy-ethnic-hatred
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@Leigh
Thanks for the link.
@lifelearner
Part of the reason that I can not see fit to truly criticize her is because she only wrote a book describing some of my parenting style. Only this year was I willing to accept a grade B and that was after my husband talked me into being more lenient.
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Sharinalr,but were you holding your kid’s stuffed animals for ‘grade ransom’ though? Were they in a big steel cage in your yard, soaked in petrol, just waiting to be ignited by mommy militant!??
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@King
“but were you holding your kid’s stuffed animals for ‘grade ransom’ though?”—No, but I was removing tablets and other toys I consider special treatment when the grades were not to my standards. The best they got was a book.
“Were they in a big steel cage in your yard, soaked in petrol, just waiting to be ignited by mommy militant!??”—Oh heck no. I thought I was crazy by my standards, but not that darn crazy. lol
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Especially when you are probably the one that bought the stuff in the first place! 🙂 It’s kind of like punishing yourself!
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@King
True.
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@ Kiwi
Do you think she is being honest and sincere in her books or is she just writing what will sell?
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I just finished watching one of her Youtube videos and in this interview she tells about how one her daughters Lulu rebelled and made a huge scene in Red Square in Moscow and how humiliated she was when her daughter went on a tangent and called her all kind of hateful things. Chua then gets an epiphany of how she might need to change. I hope she did change because as i said earlier i think she is a horrible woman from what i have read. She does say her parents were super strict and this is the way she was parenting her children. It’s my belief and i may be in the minority but if you put that amount of unreasonable pressure on a child they are going to be resentful of the parent and even hate them, it damages a kid. The famous Jackson family are perfect examples of this especially Michael.
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@Mary
You are 100% correct. While they are younger they are more forgiving and accommodating, but the older they are the more that type of parenting backfires. This is part of the reason why I started to tone down ….
1. It stress the parent more than the child.
2. Child eventually does not respond to your threats.
3. It creates low self-esteem in which the child is constantly second guessing themselves.
And like her I learned every bit of it from my father’s style of parenting towards me. It’s amazing how I resented him and rebelled and then turned around to parent the very same way.
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@sharinalr: Interesting, good you decided to change your parenting style.
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To many marrying “white” is considered marrying up. I still maintain Chua is an elitist snob.
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@leigh204: Thanks for thank link it gave insight into who this woman is. In that link post that you provided she likes to rub it into the readers face and let them know she is rich and that her family is superior to the ethnic Filipinos. So reading her account the Chinese-Filipinos are superior to the so called “ethnic Filipinos.” She is a piece of work. SMH.
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@leigh204: Thanks for the link.^^^^^
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@Kiwi: I noticed on Google + The Asian female moderators have many white male posters and some of those white male posters are kind of creepy in my opinion. I do believe white men and some black men have a “fetish” for Asian women.
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She has a very interesting take on race and success….a quack by many measures.
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Not all Chinese are equals. The fact is many Chinese provinces would probably be deferred into separate South East Asian Nations if not absorbed by feudal China into a larger nation. There’s a cast system in the Chinese society even here in America.
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@ Kiwi
Bro, you’re an expert on calling out the Asian fetishists, which are 99 percent White males.
The movie ‘The Wolverine’ (starring and co-starring Hugh Jackman and Tao Okamoto, respectively) was made for White male/Asian female couples. The movie was very anti-Asian male. The way I viewed it, the foreign White man (White supremacist) kicks every Japanese man’s ass and screws the finest-looking Japanese women in the movie. I didn’t enjoy the movie at all. It would not have mattered if this White guy had gone to India, Mexico or the South Pacific – he would’ve done the same exact thing to the men and women in those countries/regions too. White people and many POC could NOT imagine a Black or Asian man (foreign or not) in the U.S. or Europe beating up every White guy and screwing the best-looking White woman. The movie-writing White supremacist will NOT allow it. Hollywood is the MOST powerful tool that the White supremacist uses. Hollywood brainwashes people (from all over the world) to view the White man (or White supremacist) as the “savior”/”ladies’ man” and the Black man and Asian man as the “villain thug” or “emasculated punk”. It’s no coincidence that Black American movies don’t do well overseas – in countries like the China, Japan, the Philippines, India, and, sad to say, Nigeria. Asian movies don’t do well in the States and Europe – only Asian fetishists look forward to seeing Asian movies and that’s because of the Asian actresses that these White guys love to masturbate towards. The White supremacist (that includes the Asian fetishist) is a sick-minded, egotistic individual. That’s the honest truth – take it or leave it!
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@Kiwi:
I noticed this as well. The Hollywood establishment, never, or rarely make films about other interracial pairings other than white/racialized ones. It is like white pairings with racialized groups is the only ‘game’ in town. This is part and parcel of the white supremacist mind set. I know as a fact that there are many other inter-racialized(for lack of a better term) pairings. However, you would never know it watching the so-called entertainment. I also find it weird that those who decry racism and by extension white supremacy(one and the same), hook up with their oppressors. To each his/her own I guess.
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I found today (4/8/15) an article in the CNN website that explains Asian success in the USA referring to the concept of “Asian privilege” and therefore offering a different explanation than Amy Chua’s.
See:
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/03/opinions/lee-immigration-ethnic-capital/index.html
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[…] The writer, illustrator and editor all have their share of responsibility, but their track record shows that this book was an anomaly, not the norm in their careers. Besides, the System would have had just found someone else. So let’s look at that aspect of the system. And to understand it properly, we need to look at Amy Chua. […]
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