A03
Week 3
In
this week’s reading Beyond Tiger Mom
Anxiety: Ethnic, Gender, and Generational Differences in Asian American College
access and choices the authors OiYan
Poon and Ajani Byrd elaborate on the idea of the tiger mom and within their analysis
include elements that relate back to all four of the topics within the theme of
the week: Affirmative action, Tiger Mom, Model Minority, and Newer Debates in
higher education. The article primarily counters the idea that all asian
families hold the same high standards for academic achievement and that all of
their success is due to the strict parenting of overbearing parents. Poon and
Ajani’s research shows why the idea of the tiger mom is not true for all Asian families.
Diversity in culture, socioeconomic background, and generation within the Asian
Community can lead to differences in expectations from parents. Coming from an Indonesian
American Family I was really able to relate to the differences they mentioned
between east Asian parent expectations and southeast Asian parent expectation. My
parents were very hard on my siblings to be successful in college. In my family
the only successful occupation they could think of for the longest time was to
be a doctor. However because of my families limited economic resources and
their lack of understanding for the education system they could not expect any
of my siblings to cousins to be accepted into Ivy league schools. Also I am the youngest of five in my family
and as my parents watched each of my siblings before me venture into the world
of higher education they became more and more understanding of our situation. My parents were not as strict on me as many other asian parents may have been.
Question: What are they called tiger moms not tiger dads?
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