Misconceptions In 'Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother'

Misconceptions in America
The United States has always been a symbol of freedom and prosperity since its conception in 1776. This freedom, however, has only fairly recently included groups of people of different races , religions, and sexes. The inclusions of these groups have not always been welcomed with open arms. In the novel Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua, Chua explores the wonders of motherhood while discovering the misconceptions of American parenting. In the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, a black family overcomes its denial of residence because of misconceptions toward their group. In the article American Tragedy by Naunihal Singh, a group of Sikhs is targeted in an attack because of misconceptions

In Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, western parents, as Chua describes, are ruining the Chinese parenting style. “All these new books out there portraying Asian mothers as scheming, callous, overdriven people indifferent to their kids’ true interests.” Her concern with these books is that it portrays the Chinese parenting as the wrong way when Chua, who is a Chinese mother, sees herself loving and sacrificing more for her kids. This shows that western parents are portraying that the Chinese parenting method as inferior without really diving deeper into why Chinese parents parent the way they do and just assuming they are doing it all wrong. In Spoiled Rotten, while Carolina traveled to an Amazonian village, she was surprised that Yanira, a young girl of another family,”quickly found ways to make herself useful...she swept the sand off the sleeping mats..stack the kapashi leaves...fished for crustaceans...cleaned, boiled, and served...“asked for nothing,” Izquierdo later recalled.” If the Matsigenka, the tribe, parenting style could produce such great children, you would imagine that many western parents would follow suit, but as Kolbert later states in the article, western parents continue the pattern of being,”(mistakenly) convinced that their every move has a ripple effect into their child’s future success,” she writes. Paradoxically, Levine maintains, by

This represententing, or lack of, shows how the U.S. media is trying to silence the non majority Sikh population. This silencing shows how the media is not integrating the Sikh culture into the culture of America by not acknowledging a Sikh Tragedy as an American Tragedy. In A Raisin in the Sun, George has come to the Youngers house to pick up Beneatha when he finds her wearing traditional clothes. They argue about African culture and when mama asks what assimilation means, Beneatha responds,”It means someone who is willing to give up his own culture and submerge himself completely in the dominant, and in this case oppressive culture!” This line from Beneatha shows that Beneatha not only loves her African roots but also condemning American culture by referring to is as ”oppressive culture” This condemning from American culture can be seen as her not only refueling to integrate American culture