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she started walking back, saying that the WSJ quoted fragments of her book out of context I haven't read the book, but I have seen evidence that the WSJ extrac
by frossie 16y ago
she started walking back, saying that the WSJ quoted fragments of her book out of context
I haven't read the book, but I have seen evidence that the WSJ extracts were highly selective. In fact in the Guardian piece below, in which her children are also quoted, it says that she completely changed her approach when she realised the effect that it had. Her daughter is quoted as saying:
"The other day, I messed up a math test. I texted my mom that I got an A- and she replied, 'Who cares! Mummy loves u!'"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/jan/15/amy-chua-tiger-mother-interview?INTCMP=SRCH http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/jan/15/amy-chua-...
[Edit for those who don't want to read the linked article: The Guardian piece casts the book as a confessionary "these are the things I did because I thought they were right and boy, it just made my kids miserable so I stopped" rather than the WSJ-implied tone of "this is the way I raised my kids and you wussy Westerners should do it like this or be squashed"]
- sethg 16y agoOn the one hand, I have a low opinion of the WSJ editorial pages, so I want to believe that the editors crafted the op-ed to portray Chua in a way that reflects their own political and racial biases, rather than the image that Chua wanted to present of herself. (I know personally a family that signed up for one of those “reality TV” shows, and I cringe at how they were portrayed.) On the other hand, framing her this way appears to be helping her sales figures. Back on the first hand, would she have wanted to project this image of herself to a national audience just to spike her book sales?