Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother By Amy Chua

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The “Tiger Parents” debate has captured mass media coverage, due to the author and “Tiger Mother” Amy Chua. Tiger mothers are Asian American mothers, who demanded unrealistic levels of achievement of their children. Amy wrote a book called Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, which explains why Asian American mothers are superior to western mothers, when it comes to child rearing. According to the class textbook, Asian Americans score the highest on standard intelligence tests compared to European, Hispanic, and African Americans. The article and study that I choose tries to discredit, Amy Chua theory on why Asian Americans do better academically. The Journalist Paul Tullis article accurately describes Kim Su Yeong research on tiger parenting. …show more content…

Tiger parents do not produce children, who performs academically better and is not the secret to Asian Americans children success in academics. Children who parents are “tiger” have lower GPA’s than children who parents are supportive, who have higher GPA’s and are better socially adjusted because they feel less alienated than children from tiger parents.
Poor Little Tiger Cub is a responsible summary of the research. However, it is based on one research. To conclude, whether tiger parents are really detrimental towards their children academic performances, more research will need to be observed. The researcher Kim also based her research on herself and her parents, parenting style and that could have tempered with the outcome of the research, unknowingly. The journalist could have covered another study, where the researcher had a biased opinion on tiger parenting. In conclusion, the journalist was able to provide with the research information and data that tiger parenting is not behind the success of Asian Americans children. Paul and Kim discredited Amy Chua theory on why Asian American does better academically, by providing their own theory, support by

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