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I'm reading this as: Asian students perform better than other groups even with ineffective parenting. Am I missing something? >“Whenever scholars compare Europ
by jere 13y ago
I'm reading this as: Asian students perform better than other groups even with ineffective parenting. Am I missing something?
>“Whenever scholars compare European-American and Asian-American families,” she said, parents among the latter “almost always score higher on controlling and lower on warmth, which means they’re more likely to be classified as authoritarian.” Yet, their kids were outperforming whites in school. This gave rise to the “achievement/adjustment paradox”: kids doing well by external measures while feeling torn apart inside.
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- scott_karana 13y agoMany immigrant tiger moms have lower means, have the same reasoning as Chua, and could use her book as justification. This seemed cautionary to me.
- sliverstorm 13y agoAm I missing something? One thing that comes to mind; at least in the Bay Area, asian students often grow up in whole communities made up of other asians, so even if their parents are mucking things up a bit, they are still fully immersed in the culture of extreme focus on academics and achievement.
- illuminate 13y ago"Am I missing something?" Class. All the "tiger moms" are of high economic condition. Lower-classed Asian immigrants do not follow the model.