"Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior"

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by TylerSVT

I know... if your going to attack where i live i might as well point out why they live there..



My parents are well off, im not.



Well when you get called out in EVERY thread... i might as well throw it in some of your guys's faces.

Hahaha, "guys's".

[awildermode]

the elders do not approve of this article as it teaches the gwai lo our secrets

[Ducay]

They have superior skills in the art of packing smelly leftover fish into tupperwares to be reheated in small confined areas

[puckluck]

Originally Posted by awildermode

the elders do not approve of this article as it teaches the gwai lo our secrets

gwai lo = infidels?

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by puckluck

gwai lo = infidels?

Whites.

[puckluck]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

Whites.

Thanks for confirming.

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by puckluck

Thanks for confirming.

Can't we all just agree that Asians are the worst?

[RedMan12]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

Can't we all just agree that Asians are the worst?

No as my wife would say. "Japanese are superior Asians."

[GirlySports]

"Chase the Gwai Lo with the ball!!!!!"

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by puckluck

gwai lo = infidels?

Excuse me, I'm looking for a woman with green eyes, have you seen her around here somewhere?

[Travis Munroe]

Perhaps 3 hours of piano should be cut in half. The other half spent learning to drive.... This articles stereotypes come across way to strong for my liking.
I finished HS with grades to get into Uni and chose a different route. When the little ones arrive I want to raise them how I was raised and it is quite opposite to the article. Social life is very important IMO as long as grades are kept at or above average. In todays world I find street smarts and thinking on your feet to be more important as understanding certain courses in school that will never be applied to the real world.

[Dorkmaster]

I'm very happy I got the best of both worlds. Asian parents that moved to Canada in their late teens.

Taught to work hard and be disciplined, but also lax enough to realize that there's way more to life than just schooling.

[J pold]

I had a very good Asian friend growing up and his parents where much liked the ones described in the article.

Flash-forward to today: he is one of the most successful people I know for his age. Top of his class in pre-med, medical school, and is now taking optometry at Waterloo, the top school in the country. I haven't seem him in at least a year but the last time we talked he was extremely happy with a great girlfriend. He regularly volunteers his time to youth centers and organizes charity events for new Asian immigrants. Yes I realize this is just one case, and no I'm not trying to validate the article, I don't agree with some of it. But I can't help but notice that nearly all of my other friends who parents just wanted them to do their best and didn't require them to work hard are now almost all either working dead end job or taking 6+ years to finish their undergrads, and more or less don't act like they've aged a day past 18. Just sayin.

[V]

You've got a lot of deadbeat friends.

[J pold]

Originally Posted by V

You've got a lot of deadbeat friends.

Yeah I do actually.

Sometimes I worry I'll become my peer group.

[JohnnyB]

Originally Posted by The Yen Man

Just an FYI, Chinese people don't have trouble pronouncing the "l". It's in our language (notice Chinese last names like Lin, Leung, etc.) We have trouble pronouncing the "v" and the "th" sounds, just like you whities have problems doing the "ng" and the "zh" sounds in Chinese.

Yes they do, pretty much whenever it's not at the front of a syllable.

[STeeLy]

Originally Posted by JohnnyB

Yes they do, pretty much whenever it's not at the front of a syllable.

A lot of Chinese people also have trouble with the s at the END of a word.

[HOZ]

Not surprisingly an article echoing some sentiments in this thread....
A Reply to the "Tiger Mother" Hypothesis

By now you’ve probably read or at least heard about Yale Law School Professor Amy Chua’s hyperbolic WSJ essay of a few days ago in which she asserted that the way she is raising her two daughters – via an extreme, rigid and authoritarian approach she claims to be iconically Chinese – is far superior to the way western parents like you and I are doing the job. Chua wrote the essay in support of a book she has coming out this week titled “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” in which she makes the case that children raised by overbearing and exceptionally strict Chinese mothers are superior (yes, she uses that word) to other children

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I am going to have to checkmate her by noting the fact that there aren’t any Chinese kids playing in the NFL. Does the fact that such a high percentage of highly paid, very successful professional atheletes are African American mean that African American mothering is “superior” to Chua-style parenting? Obviously, I am engaging in a bit of pretzel logic here, but so is Chua, and she’s trying to use it to belittle and demean other cultures, stereotype her own culture, and of course, to sell books.

If this was added already I apologize.

[The Yen Man]

Originally Posted by Codes

Then why does my Chinese colleague call them the Calgary Frames?

I'm sure the guy isn't saying "Frames", he's saying "Fames". Chinese people tend to have a problem doing certain consecutive consonents, ie the "th" or the "fl" sounds. Ask your Chinese colleague to say "zero" in Chinese, and he'll show you he doesn't have a problem doing the "l" sound by itself.

[The Yen Man]

Originally Posted by JohnnyB

Yes they do, pretty much whenever it's not at the front of a syllable.

Again, I should say, we have no troubles with words like "lonely" or "lululemon" as they are preceded or precedes a vowel, and hence we can say it. So people who want to mock an Asian accent sound kind of dumb when they say "ronery" or "rururemon", because if you ask a Chinese say those words, I bet you anything that's not what it sounds like at all.