Following the media frenzy that is the aftermath of Chua's article i cannot help but feel that there is a larger macro narrative at play here. There is no doub

Following the media frenzy that is the aftermath of Chua's article i cannot help but feel that there is a larger macro narrative at play here. There is no doubt, the article struck a nerve for many Asian-Americans, some of which try to either validate the way they grew up or the understandable resentment of others who feel cheated from some vocation that didn't materialize because of the Math/Violin issue. Then there is this large group of what seems to be largely white who either figured there was something there for the upbringing of their children, and those who cry abuse. As I was raised in another country, this conversation, whether of Asian origin or Caucasian, strikes me as a genuine american cultural phenomena. There is an anxiety here about children and the way they are brought up and educated that is unmatched anywhere else that i have seen. This discussion and the discussion of yesterday about the treatment of all males as defacto criminals in their approach to children, feeds from the same root, that strikes me at times as some kind of hysterical episode.