Tiffany Do
ASA 2 Section 2
Week 9 Blog
In response to “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior” and “Why I
Love My Strict Chinese Mom”:
In my blog this week, I wanted to focus on Amy Chua’s
article and then her daughter’s public response (in defense of her mom and her
parenting style) to the outrage and criticism Chua faced. I guess the big
question here was why did so many people take Chua’s article so seriously? Her
daughter even says that people failed to understand the humor in the original
article and that it “[isn’t] their fault” because “no outsider can know what
[their] family is really like” (“Why I Love”, 2). Based on what we’ve learned
in class about Asian American female stereotypes, it isn’t really surprising
why many took what Chua wrote to heart. The Tiger Mom, who is characterized by
being super strict, does not look that much different from the heartless Asian
female assassin that we see in movies over and over again… Except this time,
her setting is no longer the fast-paced action taking place somewhere in the
Orient. Her setting is the household. She’s like the domesticated version of
the Asian female assassin. Did Amy Chua write this article in humor as a way to
point out how closely the American public relies on stereotypes? I doubt it.
Even so, her article and the response that people had to it, shows us how far
we haven’t come.
Question:
Why might the stereotype of the Tiger Mom be so readily
accepted in regards to Asian Americans and not other ethnic groups?
The quote at the top of the picture says this book is a “journey
through the Chinese-American family culture.” Amy Chua is not representative of
all Chinese American mothers!
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