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Bloggers are also mad. “It’s rife with American exceptionalism and model minority thinking — the notion that anyone can succeed in America if they just act right, and those who don’t will get what they deserve,” notes Race Files blogger Soya Jung about the book’s subtitle and marketing. Jung says she hasn’t read the book and doesn’t intend to, explaining, “My main problem with this is that it ignores the history of race in America,” particularly when it comes to that of black Americans.
Prachi Gupta of Salon calls the new book Chua’s “personal rant about her cultural superiority.” Kenton Ngo, meanwhile, blogs, “It’s too simplistic to read Chua’s thesis as a form of racism. In fact, it’s more sinister than that. Chua, her husband, and many other members of the 1% genuinely believe they got to where they were because they were somehow inherently better people…The worst part about this sordid saga is that both of them are tenured law professors at Yale. If anything exposes the dark, seedy underbelly of the elite views of their own superiority, it’s that the people teaching future white-shoe lawyers and M&A sharks genuinely believe that some ethnic groups are simply not cut out for life. No wonder our social safety net is under attack.”
- Tiger Mom’s New Book Stirs Up Culture Wars, Yahoo.com, January 6, 2017.
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Zhang Xin is Trainer at chinadaily.com.cn. He has been with China Daily since 1988, when he graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University. Write him at: zhangxin@chinadaily.com.cn, or raise a question for potential use in a future column.
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