Growing up in the American education system, I always took my education for granted. My mother would always say, “You know how much people would want to be in your place and go to school?” In Chinese culture, education is the only way to achieve upward social mobility and leave the poor social economic class; whether you are rich or poor, you must have education and go to school. Education is not equal for everyone so how can one play the game when it is set up against you. Education is based on the resources that are offered in the area, thus if you live in a poor area, you get fewer resources. When the One Child policy was passed, it helped because all the family’s resources are focused on one child but the child is the only one to take care …show more content…
The Chinese education and culture are set up like this because the One Child policy created the need to better educate the youth and push them to move up on the social ladder, the history of China’s education policy. and the Gao Kao system. My mom would always say, “American born Chinese students have it easy in America.” One key difference between the American education system and Chinese education system is the way they are taught. Being raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, I went to school to understand the idea of analyzing and understanding concepts. After reading Only Hope, I realized that their education is based on more memorizations. To Chinese students, understand the concept and apply it is not the most important, you must just memorize it for the exam. Many parents in China would say that going on vacation and relaxing is a waste of time because they need to focus on learning. In Greenspan’s article, it mentions that a student in China is the top of her class and is fluent in English, yet she cannot go on vacation because her mother wants her to spend time learning, many students in China
Chua believes that Chinese parents force their children to be academically successful in order to reach “higher” goals in life. She emphasizes this when she states “…Chinese parents have … higher dreams for their children…” (Chua 8). Although Amy set higher s...
As Amy Chua (2011) points out, there are three differences in the mindsets of Chinese and Westerners when it comes to parenting. The author starts the article with several stories to demonstrate these glaring differences: Chinese parents believe their kids are "the best;" Chinese parents force their children to practice a subject until they master and enjoy it; and Chinese parents call their offsprings "garbage" and "fat" to make them improve. However, according to Chua, the Chinese parenting method, strange to Westerners, has created successful sons and daughters.
The article “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” by Amy Chua demonstrates the two different mind sets of parenting: Chinese parenting and Western approach to parenting. In my view, Chinese parenting is very strict about school work and extracurricular activities such as pianos and violins. For example, if we compare the two different sets of parenting; Chua says, for instance that Western parents believe that they are strict by forcing their kids practice their instruments for 30 minutes a day at most to an hour. This is nothing compared to the Chinese parents that would say the first hour of practice is easy it’s the second or third hour that gets tough (Chua 2011). This shows how forcefully strict the Chinese parents are compared to Western parents. The Chinese parents would say anything that really has to be said to their kid’s straight forward, but the Westerns would go about telling their kids, so it won’t hurt their feelings or their self-esteem. A few of these examples come to show that Chinese parents have intelligent kids, but are they intelligent enough for society? In other words are these Chinese children capable to work in group projects compared to an American kid that lives the usually life as a kid; like going to sleepovers and participating in different school activities. This is what David Brooks actually discusses about in his article “Amy Chua Is a Wimp”, says that Amy Chua’s way of parenting which is Chinese parenting isn’t effective enough. Well sure their kids are very intelligent and get high grades, but can they participate in well-functioning groups? One thing that Chinese parenting lacks in is a skill set that is not taught formally, but is imparted through strenuous experiences. This is exactly what Chua...
Her first point is that if the child gets a bad grade on a test, the Western parents would never actually blame their child. Instead, they would put the blame on the school, questioning the teacher’s abilities. If a Chinese child gets a bad grade, however, the parents would put the blame directly on the child, assuming that he or she did not work hard enough. Furthermore, they will punish the child and demand improvement.
Today marriage is defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as the relationship between a husband and a wife or a similar relationship between people of the same sex. For the purposes of this paper, it will focus on marriage between a man and a woman and how marriage is differently defined between the American and Chinese cultures. This paper will discuss the cultural differences found between the American and Chinese culture with emphasis on age and mate-selection. The cultural differences between American and Chinese culture related to marriage practices shows that Americans value individualism and Chinese historically value collectivism.
Tan, G. (2012). THE ONE-CHILD POLICY AND PRIVATIZATION OF EDUCATION IN CHINA. International Education, 42(1), 43-53,107. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1285120304?accountid=32521
Have you ever considered how your mother birthed you, going on you in her paunch for nine months in progression, losing her flawlessness even to the point wherein her always breaking points are continually up in context of you. in any case, in the mediating time always welcoming the main thing that she is passing specifically in the judicious world. That is not how China longings it 's mothers to be. China has dependably been one of the extraordinary nations as of late as its standing huge inconveniences in later years is overpopulation. China 's human advancement has been a vital trouble. In China, all nationals are being learned that them are influenced to the measure of kids they may convey. The office made a way of development called "one
Chinese children in this situation will be socialized and form a set of values, norms, behaviors and attitudes toward life. How does each “agencies of socialization” (such as family an...
Chinese education has stunned the educators when the students from Shanghai have achieved the highest score in PISA during 2011. Western parents wonder how Chinese parents raise such successful kids. Also, they assert Chinese parents are being strict to their children. The articles “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, and “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” by Amy Chua describe the experience of how the Chinese mother educate their daughters. The mothers are in the control of their daughter’s lives. However, if we want to know more about the education of Chinese traditional, we need to look into “Chinese family”. We will discover that Chinese education is not horrible as we thought, and it would not affect the development of the students. On the other hand, it is considered as a kind of love from parents because every parent wants the best for their kids. They will definitely assist us through the pathway to success.
Bountiful amount of people simply think of the One Child Policy as China’s law to keep the population in control. Yes, it is the China’s policy that’s made to keep the population in control, but not only that, the Chinese government has forced many unwanted abortions as well as sterilizations.The forced abortions not only cause depression to the parents but also cause social problems in the country as well. There are 38 million more guys than girls. Child trafficking is now playing a tremendous role in the sense of crime as well. In addition to the pressure from the government, Chinese traditionally believe that guys play a bigger role in the society and therefore many families desire their child to be a boy. This tradition obviously causes abortion when the family finds out tha...
This view makes children feel like an instrument, rather than a loved human being. Children don 't choose their parents, let alone choose to be born. Kids do not owe their parents, and if anything, the parents owe their kids everything. Parents should not choose the routes that their kids go in life, but rather influence it keeping in mind their child 's desires and passions. It isn 't that Chinese parents don 't love their kids, instead it is quite the opposite. They love them so much that they feel that have to do everything for them to guide them in the right direction by making all the decisions for them. This a form of "authoritarian parenting." This means parents establish rules that must be followed with no exceptions. Authoritarian parenting comes with forceful measures which "may result in children who are unhappy, have a large gap in social skills and often have low self-esteem" (parentingabout.net). This shows that Amy Chua 's form of authoritarian parenting as a tiger mom can have major long term effects on her
The one child policy was adopted to help improve economic, environment, and population problems in China. The policy was used to limits the number of children that couples can have. When , the law was introduced it was only supposed to help with the overpopulation but , it has caused many children to be left and abandoned. Although China has a population problem, the one child policy was not the right way to handle the situation.
The very first important development for a successful country is to have a respectable education system for those who need it from the first day they are born into the world. We have to instill what we want in our people to reflect how we want our development to appear. In China, their school system has more of a strict structure, for example, at Harbin Number One High School. Students begin school at 7:00 a.m., and remain until 8:20 p.m. The seniors, preparing for their final examinations, stay later, even until 10:00 at night.
In today’s society, the fixed model for ordinary Chinese student is working hard on their study since very young to be admitted by better primary school, middle school and high school and then, they would get high marks in Gaokao, which is a kind of exam like ACT, to enter some best universities to get a well-paid job in the future. As the fierce competition in China, parents ask their children to put 100% energy in study and they usually think working part-time would decrease school success because of less study time. Gwen (2012) notes most of Chinese parents are more strict in study than American parents. They push their children to study, practice more and get achievement and give children enough financial support. Furthermore, many Chinese students think doing extra part-time job would make them feel more stressful because most of them are forced to go institutions to have extra classes at the weekend. As a result, many Chinese people do not have positive attitudes toward students working
China and the United States have many cultural differences such as diet, family, thinking, but education is more closely with me as a student, so I find some different culture scenes about education while I am studying in college in the United Stated. In China, When children are at the age, parents prefer their kids go to public school than the public school, even for college. The reason is the environment of the private school such as the Academy, the competition, the choice of classes, and the security of campus usually is better than the environment of public school. Also, the students from the public school can pay more attention to their homework, class, and interest.