Michael Li - Week 9 Blog

Michael Li

Week 9 Blog

Why I love my strict Chinese Mom

                This article appealed to me because I grew up in an Asian household and even though my parents were strict sometimes, they definitely gave me a lot of freedom growing up. So if I were to put myself in Sophia’s shoes, I don’t think I would be so thrilled about having a mother who is so strict because I really appreciated being able to made a lot of my own decisions, even if they are wrong.

                I understand how publishing an article such as “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior” would receive a lot of criticism and negative comments as the title even somewhat attacks mothers of different ethnicities. Raising a child is definitely a touchy subject that I don’t think anyone has all the correct answers on how to do it. There’s more than one right way to do things and you can’t really say which is better or worse. I see where the mindset of a tiger mom comes from and also why some would be opposed to it. But it doesn’t matter because it seems like Sophia is extremely happy of the way she was raised and loves her mother for what she has done.

Question: It seems like many of the ‘tiger moms’ you hear of are those mothers that have immigrated to the U.S. because they are the ones that had to face the struggles of immigrating to a foreign country and many do immigrate for the purpose of giving their children better opportunities in life. So do ‘tiger mom’ characteristics get passed down from generation to generation or are they just most found in immigrant/early generations of Asian American mothers.