Amy Chau's Analysis

Amy Chau, the author of an article describing her ways of parenting her children as a Chinese mother in article called "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior", describes in the following paragraph what would happen if a typical Chinese child would get a "unfulfillable" grade:

"If a Chinese child gets a B—which would never happen—there would first be a screaming, hair-tearing explosion. The devastated Chinese mother would then get dozens, maybe hundreds of practice tests and work through them with her child for as long as it takes to get the grade up to an A."

 Though I am not Chinese, my parents are also strict on how I perform in my academic work at school. If I bring back a B on a test to my parents I would get praised for the good effort but my dad would still want an expectation of an A from me. I think this has to do a lot with the fact that my parents were born in a third world country and they want me to grow up successful and happy with my life.

But in ways they are also very different from Chinese parents because they want me to make my own choices