Amy Chua's View Of Chinese Mothers

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In some extent, I disagree with Amy Chua’s view about “Chinese mother” and “Western mother” in the article why Chinese mothers are superior. Although, she thought that Chinese mothers are superior, in my opinion, her some description about Chinese mother and reasons that support her ideas are unconvincing, exaggerated even extreme. We cannot define Chinese mother as what she said in the essay. Her view of Chinese mother looks like the truth, but actually far from the fact. For instance, it is true that all Chinese mothers seem to prevent their children watch TV or play computer games. However, it cannot be defined as “never”, which is so absolute. On the contrary, if you study hard even you didn’t get an “A” in the exam. Chinese Mothers will …show more content…
Chinese mother try to spend more time every day drilling academic work with their children, due to their long for success. To explain these behaviors of Chinese mother, we must know china is a developing country which possessing largest population in the world. There are violent and cruel competitions in China, if their children cannot accommodate to the competition of study, how can they be the winner after they grow up in the society? And the country lacks the ability of providing basic welfare for those who lost the jobs which is different from that in western countries. As we know, the classic American dream is that you try your best, you will succeed. But in China, maybe, you won’t get anything. So, under this complicated situation, Chinese mothers are “blind” which means that they cannot find the right way to raise their children for success. But they know there is a famous piano musician called Lang Lang and a math genius called Loo-Keng Hua. They

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