Why Chinese Mothers Are Su-Perior Analysis

“Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior”

Parenting is an eternal and debatable topic seeing that everybody has their own opin-ion on how their child should be raised. In the article “Why Chinese Mothers Are Su-perior” Amy Chua explains how she thinks children should be brought up and speaks well of the Chinese methods. She is convinced that if you provide a harsh setting for your child, he or she will end up being a successful, independent and in particular confidant human being. Nevertheless, Amy finds it difficult to live in a country where people find her methods to strict and this especially ends out in conflicts with her husband. Amy has a credible ethos, as she writes in an intellectual and quite academic way. Her ethos is also strengthened by the fact that she is a professor in Yale University. This information is given in start of the article, so through out the whole article we are more prone to believe her. Besides Amy’s professions we are also presented to a very distinct character. Amy is not scared of presenting herself as being a very strict and harsh mother, although she knows that people will feel provoked and disagree with her way of bringing up her kids. Throughout the article, she uses several personal ex-periences that support this assertion and this

Huntington developed a theory involving this exact problem and believed that globalization would lead to cultural clashes. As to the up-bringing of children, this article is a brilliant example of his theory. Amy Chua feels trapped in a moral dilemma, as her husband has a very different approach to their children’s upbringing, due to their cultural differences. Therefore the two of them often end out in “clashes” or rather big arguments. These arguments are often about Amy’s very strict way of dealing with their kids. Here way of pressing them and ex-pecting things from