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Posts Tagged ‘Asian American parents’

Paper Tiger Mom

Paper Tiger Mom

Saturday, January 15, 2011 23:22

It’s easy to hate Amy Chua right now. If her intention was to garner publicity for her book by writing a controversial article for the Wall Street Journal, she has succeeded. Her article has spawned several follow up WSJ articles. From “Western mot...

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Dear Asian America: Forget Chua’s Book, This is Our “It Gets Better” Moment

Dear Asian America: Forget Chua’s Book, This is Our “It Gets Better” Moment

Tuesday, January 11, 2011 16:03

Guest post by Cynthia Liu, originally published at K-12 News NetworkDear Asian America,As so many have pointed out through gut-wrenching personal testimony and the horrible statistics surrounding high suicide rates among young APA women–and a high ra...

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Kohn Head

Kohn Head

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 23:31

[Cross posted at Cranial Gunk] Whenever the subject of Asian parents and discipline comes up, I think of Russell Peters’ skit about his dad and spankings. BigWOWO posted a reaction to Alfie Kohn’s article on “unconditional parenting.” As ...

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“Gwoye Fan”

“Gwoye Fan”

Sunday, October 18, 2009 18:16

[Cross posted at Cranial Gunk]When you make fried rice, you use rice that’s been in the fridge overnight (“gwoye faan” in Cantonese). You don’t use fresh rice right out of the cooker. The other thing you don’t do when making fried rice is y...

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Call Me Ishmael

Call Me Ishmael

Tuesday, April 28, 2009 6:05

Listen to this: http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/128940 He has a point. Why don't we call each other "people, people, and people" or address each other by our names? The question above closes Beth Fertig's report featuring students atte...

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