In the article, Cultural Differences in Child Rearing: A Comparison of Immigrant Chinese and Caucasian American Mothers, authors, Michelle L. Kelley and Hui-Mei Tseng takes thirty-eight Caucasian American mothers and thirty-eight Chinese mothers and compares the parenting skills of their 3 to 8 year old children using a Parenting Dimensions Inventory (PDI) and a Parenting Goals Questionnaire (PGQ). Results found on the PDI that Caucasian mothers scored better on sensitivity, nurturance, rule setting and consistency. Whereas, Chinese mothers score higher on physical punishment and yelling at their child. Interestingly, on the PGQ, “Both immigrant Chinese and Caucasian American mothers place more emphasis on manners, school-related skills, and …show more content…
265-288). The country of Turkey is both individualist and collectivist culture where as China is strictly collectivist. Parenting in either an individualistic society or a collectivist society are both very different, but for Turkey since it’s a bit of both its more complex. The article explains that Turkey is as individualistic as America, but at the same time more collectivist. The parenting in Turkey is unclear, but by the article it seems as the more resourceful you are in Turkey the better the kids turned out. The article states, “In several studies in which students were asked to rate the parenting style of their parents, most indicated that their parents were authoritative (Filiz, 2011; Tunç & Tezer, 2006), but the preponderance varied considerably in the different studies,” (Newman, et.al, 2015, pg. 265-288). When discussing the outcomes of parenting in the USA this article reads, “In many studies, Steinberg and colleagues have focused on the components of authoritative parenting and found these to be predictive of positive academic functioning,” (Newman, et.al, 2015). With …show more content…
Hill and Kevin R. Bush and is called Relationships between Parenting Environment and Children's Mental Health among African American and European American Mothers and Children. One thing this article studied was the parenting behaviors pertaining to discipline using the “Children’s Report of Parenting Behavior for Inventory”. On this particular study, they looked at subscales, such as, the setting of rules also known as enforcement, hostile control or the way the child is punished, and inconsistent discipline which is “bending the rules”. “African American mothers were .70 for inconsistent discipline, .61 for hostile control, .50 for enforcement, and .66 for withdrawal of relations” (Bush, Hill, 2001, pg. 958). European Americans, Cronbach’s alphas were .89 for inconsistent discipline, .60 for hostile control, .55 for enforcement, and .47 for withdrawal of relations” (Bush, Hill, 2001, pg. 958). These results show that 89% of European Americans were responsible for bending the rules for their children while African American mothers were more likely to keep the rules the same. The rest of the study shows that African American mothers and European American mothers are pretty similar with how they discipline their children. With both parenting groups being slightly different in values and practices their children both have a positive outcome. For example, European American
Like the name of this article suggests, the writer's main purpose is to persuade the audience to make them believe that Chinese mothers are indeed superior. To support her argument she uses different methods to appeal to her audience's favor: she uses statistics of researches about Chinese mothers and Western mothers opinions, opinions that are mostly about how parents should or should not do when they are raising their children. She also uses passages of her life as a Chinese mother to support her argument. Also, she points out a few characteristics of western parents that are completely opposite to how a Chinese mother raises their children, which made her argument stronger. Nevertheless, there were some fallacies in her logic. One of her main fallacies is what we call "Hasty Generalization".
Amy Chua utilizes evidence to verify that Western parenting practice is wrong and not as effective as Chinese parenting practice. In her article, Chua comments, “Chinese parents can do things that would seem unimaginable-even legally actionable-to Westerners, “Hey fatty-lose some weight.” By contrast, Western parents have to tiptoe around the issue” (Chua 54). She also gives her observation as evidence to convince Westerners treat their kid wrongly. She adds her observation in her article “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior,” “I also once heard a Western father toast his adult daughter by calling her “beautiful and incredibly competent.” She later told me that made her feel like garbage” (Chua 54). Brooks, in opposite, does not fight against to prove Chinese parenting techniques are completely wrong. However, he just want to give evidence so that Chua and Chinese, in common, understand Western parenting practices are good in some ways. In Brooks’ article, he clears, “So I’m not against the way Chua pushes her daughters” (Brooks 59). Furthermore, David Brooks writes in his article “I wish she recognized that in some important ways the school cafeteria is more intellectually demanding than the library” (Brooks
The study conducted by Li, Costanzo and Putallaz examined the relationship between parenting styles, socialization goals and social-emotional adjustment amid Chinese and European American young adults. The article states that European American parents emphasize self-development goals in their children more so than Chinese parents as Western culture is more individualistic than collectivistic (Li, Costanzo & Putall...
“In one study of 50 Western American mothers and 48 Chinese immigrant mothers, almost 70% of the Western mothers said either that ‘stressing academic success is not good for children’ or that ‘parents need to foster the idea that learning is fun.’ By contrast, roughly 0% of the Chinese mothers felt the same way. Instead, the vast majority of the Chinese mothers said that they believe their children can be ‘the best’ students, that ‘academic achievement reflects successful parenting,’ and that if children did not excel at school then there was ‘a problem’ and parents ‘were not doing their job.’ … Chinese parents spend approximately ten times as long every day drilling academic activities with their children. By contrast, Western kids are more likely to participate in sports teams” (Chua 5). Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua is an engulfing novel which clearly distinguishes the difference between Western style of parenting and the Chinese style of parenting. The quote stated above shows some of the statistics that we completed to write this book. The story is a breathless and emotional memoir of Amy Chua, consisting mostly her two daughters and husband. While the Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother appears to be about the battle between a parent and a child and the relationship they share, the author, Amy Chua, has actually implied that it is important for the children to start developing skills early on to benefit in the future as well as be successful in their lives.
There are big differences in how Chinese mothers act towards their children compared to Western mothers including the expression of feelings and approval, the worth of their children, and what is best for them. Amy Chua (2011) incorporates her own personal experiences of being a Chinese mother within her article and compares that to what she witnesses in America.
All parents have their own way of raising their children. Some parents are more likely to discipline their kids. Chinese mothers tend to be more harsh than other mothers. Hispanic mothers are more lenient but can also be strict. While Chinese mothers and Hispanic mothers have some similarities, both tend to control differently when it comes to raising children.
Child rearing practices altered as a result of the economic shift as well as intellectual shift. Child rearing had shifted from breaking the will of children by means of corporal punishment to mending behavior through psychology and emotional discipline. Different theories and methods of child rearing were disseminated through advice books. This was directed particularly at immigrant families as a way to assimilate them into the American society. Children fiction books became another method implemented to conform immigrant families. Scholars had proposed other theories describing children as not being with original sin but rather, a blank slate or born innocent.
The type of parenting style used by parents may be determined by the parent’s own cultural heritage. As immigrants move to a new country, it will take time to learn the new culture and to be accustomed to their ways. Therefore, it would not be surprising if first generation immigrant parents place the hardest strain on their children. Since they have not yet been accustomed to American culture, they will be more likely to adhere to their traditional ways. Immigrants who have been in the country longer may have slowly compromised traditional views with new
Sung, Betty L. “Bicultural Conflicts in Chinese Immigrant Children.” Journal of Comparative Family Studies. Ithaka. 1985. Web. 2 May 2014.
Universality in parenting is arguing that even with different ethnic backgrounds and parenting styles, child development outcomes turn out to be similar. Phinney, Ong, and Madden (2000) wanted to find out if there were commonalities in developmental processes among immigrant and non-immigrant groups. They studied those groups to see if living in America caused them to change their collectivist values over to individualistic values. They observed patterns among three immigrant groups: Vietnamese, Armenian, and Mexican. They also had two non-immigrant groups, the Europeans, and the African Americans. They separated the immigrant groups into two cohorts, cohort one being U.S.-born adolescents and parents who have longer residence in the United States, and cohort two being foreign-born adolescents with parents who have not lived in the U.S. that long. Participants were given questionn...
European American families who use physical discipline within the first five years of a child 's life, has found those children exhibit higher negative external behaviors with their teachers and their peers. Mothers of both European, and African American children reported higher levels of negative external behaviors (Landsford, Deater-Deckand, Dodge, Bates, & Pettit, 2004). The research would conclude that the use of physical discipline with any cultural ethnic background would have a negative impact of the external behaviors of a
Parsasirat, Z., Montazeri, M., Yusooff, F., Subhi, N., & Nen, S. (2013). The Most Effective Kinds of Parents on Children’s Academic Achievement. Asian Social Science, 9(13), p229.
Parenting in today’s society is extremely competitive. Raising children has become the new sport interest to the parents, and the success that the kids achieve in life is the gold medal. You see the articles in magazines, the websites online, and the ads on TV that promote the newest and greatest parenting methods used by mothers and father everywhere. The differences we see in parenting can differ from family to family, but the biggest contrast is between the different ethnicities of the world. How a Western mother raises her child may be completely different than that of a Chinese mother. These differences are the ones that are observed by author Amy Chua, as well as mothers who have read her works of literature.
“Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” is an excerpt from Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua, a Yale Law professor. In this excerpt the author explains why Chinese children tend to be more successful in life and expresses her dislike towards Western parenting. The first idea Chua explains is a list of activities her daughters are allowed to do and not do in order to focus solely on academic progress. Second, the author demonstrates the contrast in mindset between Chinese mothers and Western mothers by explaining how Chinese mothers feel differently than Western mothers in regards to academic success and learning. Furthermore, she describes how Chinese mothers can demand things from their children. Finally, they can also say
Child rearing is the way in which children are raised in a society. No matter their culture, parents play a significant role in helping their child become a respectable and contributing member of society. Parents accomplish this by nurturing their child, building problem solving skills, and modeling culturally acceptable ways of living. All cultures vary on what cultural style the correct way to raise a child, but all share similar ground ideals. These ideals include the importance of education and teaching honesty, responsibility, and communication.The major factor of child rearing is parenting. Parental acceptance, rejection, punishment, and expectations will shape how a child is raised In all cultures child rearing is considered to be