Follow-up to Amy Chua post

[urban_stoop]

Wall Street Journal Misrepresented Chua's Book on "Asian Parenting"

Follow-up to this post, from a review in the SF Chronicle, via the mothership:

The more I re-read the Wall Street Journal article, the more I felt like I wasn't getting the whole story. The "excerpt" made the book seem like a harsh diatribe against American parenting standards and

Comments

[rkt]

I mean, yeah, I blame Chua for creating this ridiculous public persona

i don't understand this statement. she didnt create the persona. wsj did.

[mybluesunset]

that several studies, over the past 75 years have shown that the more authoritarian but less invasive parenting style that 1st and 2nd generation immigrant families tend to have is actually psychologically healthier for children

Are there really? I'm sure I can do some googling for myself, but if there are a few that stand out to you as the most interesting, I'd love a link or two. Even though my natural reaction to anything authoritarian is "squick," that sounds terribly interesting.

[roseofjuly]

How are you going to blame Chua? Just because she's inadvertently benefiting from this? Yes, it's going to sell her more books but she's not the one who portrayed her book this way, the WSJ. She didn't create this persona - the WSJ did by selectively picking her excerpts.

Even though I agree that she's promoting some really harmful parenting practices as if they are awesome

Except that the article cited in the OP explains that she's not:

"I was very surprised," she says. "The Journal basically strung together the most controversial sections of the book. And I had no idea they'd put that kind of a title on it. But the worst thing was, they didn't even hint that the book is about a journey, and that the person at beginning of the book is different from the person at the end -- that I get my comeuppance and retreat from this very strict Chinese parenting model."They misrepresented her on purpose, probably because they knew this model minority shit was going to sell more books. White people love to appropriate "Eastern" methods of

[stereoscopes]

thanks for whitesplaining