Analysis Of Elizabeth Kolbert's Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother

We’re all told to work hard in school so that we can get into the best colleges or universities and be successful. However, is going to an Ivy League college really more worthwhile than going to a State University?

Tigers Kill The Innocent Eastern and Western culture proves to be different in many ways. There are many controversial ideas that accompany this cultural divide. In Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua, she discusses the differences between Eastern and Western parenting styles. Eastern parents are known to be strict, stringent and disciplinarian when it comes to their children. They are popularly known as tiger parents.

This paper will critique the article “Tiger Moms Don’t Raise Superior Kids, Says New Study” which was written by Susan Adams. It is a study done to confirm or deny the myth that Chinese mothers raise children who are on a higher level intellectually as compared to non Chinese mothers. The article describes positive and negative attributes of both types of mothers based on mythological assumptions. The study concludes a dispute to a study conducted by Amy Chua, professor at the Yale school of law. According to Chua, Chinese mothers’ tenacity and perseverance is what makes Chinese children excel above all other children globally in scholarship and fine arts. Conversely, non Chinese mothers do not have to be as stringent (Adams). The article is

The viewpoints of her two daughters is a very important aspect in the memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. From the beginning, Amy Chua, the narrator, tried her greatest efforts in making her daughters the best they can be. This resulted in giving a villainous appearance for Amy Chua to her daughters, and therefore, may have given her a horrendous image to the reader. I believe Chua did this because she wanted to give the point-of-views of her two daughters. One of her daughters, Lulu, who was immensely rebellious in nature, ferociously rejects practicing the violin just because she does not want to. This was shown in a few points in the book. At one point in the memoir Lulu said, ""I REFUSE! I can't practice now. I won't!"" (Chua 118).

Raising a child has always been a disputable topic for Americans. Every parent as well as people who don’t even have kids, have their own opinion on how a child should be raised. In Amy Chua’s “ Why Chinese Mother are Superior”, we read about her life as a mother raising her children, and how it has affected her family as well as herself. She claims that by punishing a child and building them up will present them to their full potential, the end result will be rewarding with a confident and successful life. In the beginning, she expresses herself as a “Chinese mother”.

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, a bestseller in America recently, has made the author, Amy Chua, a center of public attention. As a second-generation of Chinese-American, her concepts of strict Chinese parenting and academic success have given rise to current controversies and issues at home and abroad. This leaves people wonder what the differences between Chinese immigrant parenting and American family education are. Therefore, it is necessary for us to take a fresh look at family education from the perspective of cross-culture.

“Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior”, by Amy Chua, is all about the Chinese motherhood lifestyle. In this article she explains what a Chinese mother does that makes them better than Western parents. Yet, we learn from Betty Ming Liu in her article, “Parents like Amy Chua are the reason why Asian-Americans like me are in therapy”, that this lifestyle is indeed harmful pushing many to escape the life they know for real happiness. Although relatively successful the Chinese mother way of doing things in the end is more harmful to a child than it is helpful. Being a Chinese mother means controlling every aspect of your child's life.

In the book that was mentioned in class, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, the author Amy Chua describes that Chinese mothers do not worry about their children’s self-esteem, believe their kids owe them everything, and know what is best for their children (Turney, 2016). What Chua states in her book has quite some truth to it. In my grandparents’ generation, parents only felt responsible for their best child if all of them were sick. Children who “weren’t comely” were disregarded because in the end, obedience takes home the cake (Warner, 1925). In my parents’ generation, children were pushed by their parents to strive in academics no matter how big of a burden it felt to them. The demands were extremely high and they created so much anxiety for the children (Schlesinger, 1966). Chinese children’s own desires were basically thrown out the window by parents, which was Chua’s general conclusion about the typical Chinese mother’s parenting

Amy Chua wrote the article “Adapted from Battle Hymn of The Tiger Mother.” In this article Chua states the difference between Western and Chinese parenting. The difference between Western and Chinese parenting is the expectation of the children are different. The Western parents allow their children more freedom then the Chinese parents. In this article, the idea of Tiger Parenting is used. Tiger parents is parenting style that controls what the kids are doing. Susan Adams wrote an article entitled “Tiger Moms Don’t Raise Superior Kids, Says New Study.” Adams’ thesis is that she wants you to know that there are different types of parenting styles by using Kim’s study. Kim is a professor at University of Texas who study different types

Is to persuade the readers that the Chinese techniques of parenting are not as bad

“Why Chinese Mothers are Superior” by Amy Chua. People always asked Amy Chua the same question “How do Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids.” Chua stated that she had, “thought long and hard about how Chinese parents can get away with what they do. I think there are three big differences between the Chinese and Western parental mind-sets.”

“This was supposed to be a story of how Chinese parents are better...than Western ones. But instead it is about a bitter clash of cultures, a fleeting taste of glory, and how I was humbled by a thirteen-year-old” (Chua). Amy Chua wanted to write a book about the superiority of Chinese parenting. What happened instead resulted in a journey of learning, for both her and her family. Her determination as a tiger mother led her to write a memoir about her experiences. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, a self-proclaimed memoir by Amy Chua is a noteworthy “story about a mother, two daughters, and two dogs” (Chua). Amy was determined to raise her kids the Chinese way. Through hard work and determination, she achieved high levels of success with her

The way of parenting has change over the years into something we still don’t know clearly today. There is no world breaking technique that would grantee a child’s success in life; so to some parenting is a controversial topic. When the book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom came out in 2011, an uproar from parents came to disagree or agree. Who is this suppose Tiger Mom? Her name is Amy Chua; a Chinese American mother of two. She is a graduate from Harvard University. She grew up in a very strict household, and also raise her kids in a similar way. Chua relates a tiger mom to a “Chinese mother.” These are the mothers who raise child prodigies and geniuses. So who wouldn’t want their kid to be successful in life? If that means they have to put up boundaries and rules, so does every other child. Many might think that Chua rules with an iron fist, but in reality she is just really committed to her children’s success.

“Why Chinese mothers are superior” is an essay published in The Wall Street Journal in January 2011. It is written by Amu Chua, who is also the author of the book “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”. In the essay deals with the ever controversial question of how to raise a child. How to make your kids grow up happy, strong and self-reliant. Different cultures have very different perspectives on upbringing and education, and in this essay Chua presents the Chinese parenting method. The essay caused a large stir, generating more than 4.000 comments on the webpage of The Wall Street Journal and around 100.000 comments on Facebook. The global debate that Amy Chua started is not surprising, since the Chinese way of raising children is very

Over the years some tiger mothers might lessen their grip and slowly become the ideal ‘Western parent’, but they still may uphold some strict tactics here and there. My mother applied the tiger tactics on my brother, but enforced different parenting skills on me, which were not as severe. Maybe she contemplated that placing so much pressure on an individual may cause a detrimental effect on a person’s emotions. Or maybe, she simply did not want to go through that tedious parenting rout again, since I’m six years younger than my brother and I encumber a spunk of physical energy that of which my brother does not demonstrate. Henceforth, Doctor Amy Chua, the author of the eye opening, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, was determined to break free from Western concepts on parenting and apply her Chinese culture parenting skills. Yet, many disagreed with the Yale professor’s concepts embedded in the book, which brought much debate. Thus seen through the thought provoking article by, Priscilla Lui and David Rollock, “Tiger Mother: Popular and Psychological Scientific Perspectives on Asian Culture and Parenting.” This scholarly article was written by, a graduate lecturer at Purdue University (Lui) and an associate professor for clinical psychology, with a Ph. D from Yale (Rollock). Furthermore, Chua’s book was published in 2011 and critics quickly sprung to attack the tiger. All this controversy arouse from the Wall Street