Sunday, January 13, 2019

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I found it quite interesting reading Beyond Tiger Mom Anxiety: Ethnic, Gender and Generational Differences in Asian American College Access and Choices. Born and raised in China myself, I deeply resonates with the term “tiger mom”. It is true that lots of Chinese students make decisions during college choice process under the influence of their parents.
As the author concluded, ethnicity, college-going generation and gender can all be the key elements affecting the importance of parent’s influences. Being a Chinese, female, and second-generation college student, my parents do have high expectations and strict requirements of me. They played an essential role during my college choice process indeed. I was especially resonant when I read the results under “ethnicity”: “College ranking was significantly more important to East Asian Americans (x̅=1.95; p<.05) than the overall sample.” East Asians tend to look rankings over everything when it comes to the judgment of whether a college is good or not. This might be another important factor of why tiger parenting style is so prevalent in East Asian.

Question:
Though I understand how college-going generation and gender can be a significant variable under different circumstances, and OiYan Poon and Ajani Byrd illustrated the difference ethnicity among Asians (south or east), I am also wondering, does the role of parents varies hugely among pure Asians, Asian Americans and Americans?



Poon O. & Byrd A. (2013) Beyond Tiger Mom Anxiety: Ethnic, Gender and Generational Differences in Asian American College Access and Choices. Journal of College Admissions, 23-31

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