Exploring the Consequences of Stereotypical Asian Parenting

Asian Parenting isn 't for Everybody

Stereo typical Asian parenting methods are tantamount to child abuse. Although Amy Chua, in her essay “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” believes her way of teaching is the right way, Janice Mirikitani in her poem “Suicide Note” proves us otherwise. Being a parent is not an easy task but there is a right way and a wrong way to raise your children. Kids should have the right to join a sport or play to express themselves freely and discover they 're interests. A mother should never scold her child by telling them they are "garbage". The outcome could end up being a teenager committing suicide, just as in Mirikitani 's poem.

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From her point of view, she describes to us that what she did was not wrong. Her excuse was that her daughter was being disrespectful towards her. If Chua 's daughter had taken it serious and had she been very offended, she could have taken the drastic decision to commit suicide just as in Mirikitani 's story. Teenager 's tend to believe it is very important to look good, for them to have self-esteem. Mirikitani 's poem “not good enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough” (Mirikitani 3) shows how depressed the victim was. The worst part to me is she even apologized for not being what they expected her to be, “If only I were a son, shoulders broad as the sunset threading through pine, I would see the light in my mother’s eyes, or the golden pride reflected in my father’s dream of my wide, male hands worthy of work and comfort”. (Mirikitani 10-16) for not having came out a male. If you are such a bad parent, to the point that you make your own children believe you don’t love them, you do not deserve