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Amy Chua's Essay 'Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior'

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American lawyer and author Amy Chua, in her article "Why Chinese Mothers are Superior", analyses the two parts of a Western and Chinese parents. Chua's purpose is to provide two different viewpoints and what is acceptable to do in their lifestyle, like how the western mothers don't pressure their kinds because they don’t want to ruin their self-confidence but on the contrary the Chinese mothers push them to their limits because they know they can achieve it. She adopts a concerning tone in order to self-aware the readers growing up experience. Chua achieves her purpose through the use of selection of details and syntax. In the beginning Chau uses formal and informal diction in her article such as "coercion", "exasperation", "self-indulgent",
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