Wing Man Lam
Section 1
Week 10
In the comic “Angry Little
Asian Girl,” Lela Lee
depicts Asian girl as someone who often grumbles about her mom’s words. It
demonstrates the stereotype for both Asian mother and daughter: Tiger mom and
angry girl. When I read this comic, I related myself to the protagonist who
grumbles a lot at home, and I believed many Asian girls have this in common. A
question came in to my mind: what make us, the girls, so angry? My only answer is most of us have a tiger mom
at home.
Because tiger moms want their children to follow their ideal
success plans, tiger moms are strict and controlling. Through high expectation and
disciplines, children feel that their moms do not understand and care them. Although
children know that their mothers love them, children often fall in a love-hate
relationship with their moms. As a result, there is always a barrier between mother
and daughter. Mothers continues to be strict, and daughters become mad. In a
long run, since daughters only observed and experienced the tiger mom parenting
method, they are likely to apply this method to their future children. This
phenomenon becomes an endless loop, which means that angry little Asian
girls and tiger moms would always coexist.
Question: what are the shortcomings
of tiger mom parenting?
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