Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior

What is the best way to raise your child? Is it best to give your children a lot of freedom and the gift to choose or to be very strict by setting a lot of rules? The way to raise children can differ from various cultures. A kid born and raised up in the United States may have a different upbringing contra a kid from China.

In this essay I will focus on the consequences that may take place if two different cultures of uprising clashses .

Amy Chua made the article "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior". She is an American-Chinese woman. In the article, she makes various points and arguments why the Chinese mothers are superior over the western mothers. She augments well by saying "first, by contrast, third" etc. and comes with examples from her own life experience.

Amy has chosen to provoke the readers to draw a lot of attention to her article. When people see the title it triggers a feeling of annoyance and the attention is drawn towards reading the text. After the attention has been drawn Amy uses her own experience to make examples since her husband (Jed) is a western man and herself a Chinese mother. She has seen both the western and the eastern way of raising a child. And Amy - like some other Chinese mothers - lives by the term "the end justifies the means". It is best - by Amy's point of view - to raise your child by having utter control. The children have to have get good grades in school or else the required time and practice will be used on the children for them to develop and increase their skills . "If a Chinese child gets a B - which would never happen - there would first be a screaming, hair-tearing explosion. The devastated Chinese mother would then get dozens, maybe hundreds of practice tests and work through them with her child for as long as it takes to get the grade up to an A " So if the child does not get good grades the Chinese mother would "punish" them by taking their liberty away. They would force the child to make extra homework and study harder to improve and use their capabilities to the utmost potential. From her perspective is it better that way, than giving the kids a lot freedom and support in their choices, as the kids may lack ambition. They may not use their full potential. So if the children of the east will be successful in life, then is the means to take away their freedom of choice justified?

But will the end always justify the means? Maybe or maybe not. But there is a limit at some point. The Chinese mothers wish to see their children succeed, but as Amy's case makes an example through the text; it can be extreme. For instance, a story where her little daughter Lulu failed to play a piano pierce called "The Little White Donkey", which can be very hard for young piano players. Yet she keeps pushing on. She pushes her daughter by working over and over, day and night. She 'insults' her, threatens her because Amy wants to give her toys away and threatens with no dinner or Christmas and other things. She keeps going and even makes prohibitions to use the toilet or to go get some water. Her Husband, Jed,