摘要
AMY Chua’s parenting is grounded in a fear of failure,but her authoritarian style is no more exclusively Chinese than rice is:it can be found operating, to varying degrees of rigor,in most homes of recently arrived - and relatively poor - immigrants. I call this take-no-prisoners type of parenting the "new immigrant ethic." And as a black African immigrant to the West,I overcame significant odds,odds that don’t factor in Chua’s life and her Chinese-mother parenting model.
