Blog Post 1

Why are Chinese women as mothers more superior? Well, my reaction to this is simple: the discipline that women who are raised within the culture, and once exported in the form of individual families, is almost unperturbed, and perhaps even amplified due to the fact that immigrants from other countries in America struggle to achieve success compared to white Americans. The Chinese have a lot of pride, and to fuel this pride they seek to turn their children into perfunctory learning machines: by pencil pushing and haranguing them. They achieve this by forcing the children through a rigorous but robust system that is pretty much universal in all societies which had stemmed from the Confucian society of China; this includes Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and various other countries the Han Chinese had influenced. I thought this excerpt from the book was quite entertaining and should be taken in a light-hearted manner. First of all, it's HER kids. She can do whatever she wants with them - she is her own children's mother and can decide what parenting style to adopt, and if the way she was raised had worked, why not repeat it? I believe some of the ways she addresses the specifics of her style was done in a comedic manner and I had gotten a few inside chuckles from it. I would love to read this book.