tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198915255127038100.post8353124116123983804..comments2023-09-01T05:27:58.305-04:00Comments on The Hourly G: Chinese Mothers—and Why America Hates ThemGonzalo Lirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10596675676272535336noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198915255127038100.post-6515228883369954762011-01-15T02:21:52.282-05:002011-01-15T02:21:52.282-05:00She thinks she's doing what a typical Chinese ...She thinks she's doing what a typical Chinese mother does over in China? Hahahahaha. Wait till those "little emperors" grow up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198915255127038100.post-43913171490912113712011-01-14T22:44:14.298-05:002011-01-14T22:44:14.298-05:00Dear "B":
The Chinese come to the US bec...Dear "B":<br />The Chinese come to the US because it's become the "Planet of the Apes".<br />Like Charles Heston said: 'If they are all like this, we'll be kings of this planet in six months'.Ebagnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198915255127038100.post-796257164740600112011-01-13T14:40:17.865-05:002011-01-13T14:40:17.865-05:00They are winning?
Last time I checked they were g...They are winning?<br /><br />Last time I checked they were giving us all of their labor and produced goods for credits on a computer screen that they will never be able to cash in. <br /><br />Who is stupid now?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198915255127038100.post-13122032610386039162011-01-13T12:57:22.629-05:002011-01-13T12:57:22.629-05:00Oh Uh, Who alerted the Retards about this site?
Jo...Oh Uh, Who alerted the Retards about this site?<br />Josecito sounds pretty legit. May I suggest you visit Sarah Palins website and not meddle in matters of the "Brain"<br />BenoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198915255127038100.post-9541472756958073242011-01-13T09:51:13.177-05:002011-01-13T09:51:13.177-05:00I can't tell if the last comment is a genius a...I can't tell if the last comment is a genius attempt at sarcasm or the real thing, so I'm just going to pretend it's the former.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198915255127038100.post-53029296568141183632011-01-13T07:45:51.701-05:002011-01-13T07:45:51.701-05:00I'm not as bright as the rest of you over at W...I'm not as bright as the rest of you over at WSJ but I'll tell you one thing. I'd rather live in retarded America than in commie China. For all the brainiacs they produce, they can't produce a society which is free and where running water is not a luxury. I'll stay here and Miss CHOW can go over there. How you like them apples, Miss CHOW!!!Josecitonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198915255127038100.post-68144929306962092972011-01-13T04:53:07.854-05:002011-01-13T04:53:07.854-05:00The last name is misspelled here - should be Chua ...The last name is misspelled here - should be Chua not Chau.trkdirectnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198915255127038100.post-86868419238798646732011-01-13T02:50:02.584-05:002011-01-13T02:50:02.584-05:00Europe is exactly the same way. Now I'm not sa...Europe is exactly the same way. Now I'm not saying that Prof. Chau has all the answers. Giving kids such extremely limited options for excellence isn't going to work out in most cases. Sure, they may be quite good at playing the piano or violin now. But they might have been virtuosos on the cello/oboe/bass guitar/nose harp -- and now we will never know.<br /><br />I think my parents had the right balance: they didn't force me to excel at one of their hobbies (or things the neighbours would be impressed by), but they did teach me to excel at something. Anything. Didn't matter if it was academics, judo, powerlifting, DJing, ... Just pick something and try to become great at it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198915255127038100.post-35968676116762379652011-01-13T01:34:45.596-05:002011-01-13T01:34:45.596-05:00In the late 70s, while attending college in Ohio, ...In the late 70s, while attending college in Ohio, I had an acquaintance of Chinese ethnicity who came from a large Thai family (nine siblings) that owned one of the largest jewelry wholesale businesses in Bangkok, Thailand. He and his brothers and sisters were all sent to US colleges with only one dictate from their father -- do not return until you have earned a doctoral degree in a discipline of your choice. At that time he was working on his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. One day I asked him how he was going to use his education when he returned to Thailand. He replied that he would work in his family's business with his brothers and sisters, and would have the title Doctor, which is more formal and commands more respect than the standard Thai title of Khun; this to fulfill his obligation to his father and family. My father, the son of a Maine potato farmer, who had earned a MSEE degree and the rank of Colonel in the U.S Air Force was more concerned that I achieve self-determination.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198915255127038100.post-45849789750533542222011-01-12T21:35:02.044-05:002011-01-12T21:35:02.044-05:00Gonzalo,
The blogosphere is abuzz about the artic...Gonzalo,<br /><br />The blogosphere is abuzz about the article, and it does have a point-we do have a large population of entitled worthless lazy-asses (although how many of them share Ms. Chua's daughters' biologically high IQ is up in the air.) <br /><br />There is a flipside. After 18 years of such an upbringing, you get regurgitation machines incapable of real initiative or creativity. Hence, China has a lot of drones making iPhones, but nobody inventing them. Our system does not thrive on the Confucian Mandarin meritocratic model, where your value is determined by how closely you can recite the classics or how cleverly you refer to them; it thrives on innovation and risktaking, which are not valued by Ms. Chua's culture. Furthermore, she seems to have liberated herself of some of those qualities that give her culture resilience-gratuitously cutting off your husband's nuts in public is definitely NOT a traditional value.<br /><br />Finally, Ms. Chua never seems to ask the obvious question: if a traditionally strict Chinese upbringing is so beneficial, then why did her parents choose to come to the US, with its lax standards? Presumably, China or Taiwan would have built a paradise on Earth by now-the overwhelming majority of their citizens having the benefit of such an upbringing. Why does China invest their money into our (admittedly retarded) society, instead of into their own development?Bnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198915255127038100.post-50585076532548347232011-01-12T19:40:49.272-05:002011-01-12T19:40:49.272-05:00GL,
Nothing new there for the 6.2 billion rest of ...GL,<br />Nothing new there for the 6.2 billion rest of us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198915255127038100.post-72328965106031304712011-01-12T19:14:47.607-05:002011-01-12T19:14:47.607-05:00I wish my dingy children would read this. they com...I wish my dingy children would read this. they complain all the time how hard I am on them. Now you've given me something to compare myself to. thanks..Frednoreply@blogger.com