Battle Hymn of Tiger Mother and American social anxiety

The sensation of "tiger Mother" reflects an increasingly intense anxiety of the elite of the United States. Amy Chua, a Chinese professor at Yale University in the United States, published a book called "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" in the United States to cause a sensation.　　The book introduces how she disciplined two daughters with Chinese-style strict education methods, and the "Tiger Mother" method of education has stirred up American education and led to a big discussion about American-China educational methods, with the participation of Time magazine almost reaching a climax. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Amy Chua, Penguin Press HC published January 2011 Yale Law professor, the Philippine overseas Chinese Offspring Amy Chua recently launched a memoir of raising two daughters, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother), causing sensation in the United States and Controversial。 Ms Chua claims to have adopted the "Chinese Way", and the Wall Street Journal's book was picked up with 耸听 's headline, "Why do Chinese moms stand out?"　　, which has aroused the hot discussion of overseas especially American Chinese. Careful observation can be found in the bustling "tiger Mother controversy", mainly in the United States white-collar middle and upper class and knowledge class. The Wall Street Journal, followed by the New York Times, The Washington Post, and The New Yorker, is the newspaper that the top Americans and the intellectual elites are concerned about.　　Full of "Tiger Mom" hot discussion of the Internet page, but also mostly "intellectuals piled up" space. In fact, "Battle Hymn of Tiger Mother" is the modern edition of the Chinese tradition of "filial piety under sticks".　　Aside from the Wall Street Journal's "Why Chinese moms make a big hit", What's more noteworthy is the social climate here, why did Tiger mother stir the upper middle class and the intellectual elite in America?　　Word, the "tiger Mother" sensation reflects a growing anxiety of the elite in America. At the national level, America's global position is facing the challenge of the rise of many "Asian tigers".　　As the New Yorker commented: "The Asian tiger Economy" is the best-selling backdrop for Tiger mother. The greater anxiety reflected in the "tiger Mother" craze lies in the social and personal dimensions. In recent decades, social polarization and social competition in the United States have intensified, which has given rise to widespread anxiety about the decline of social and economic status. For example, the Tea Party movement is largely motivated by the fear of losing the existing middle-class status of ordinary whites.　　If this is the anxiety of the "Coke", then "Sister Lin" is worried about the status of the upper elite continued. Without mentioning the "democratization" of the American elite since the two World War, the "aristocratic politics", which is dominated by the family and children, has gradually shifted to the evolution of "elite politics" through competition.　　This shift from elite education began, but the result is far beyond the Ivy League campus, and included from the financial, political, intellectual and other "superstructure", in just over half a century, completed from the Wasp "blue blood" family to the elite of the various ethnic groups of the great exchange. Is the pinnacle of American capitalism-Wall Street,This shift has been completed in the last ten or twenty years, and the old rich have been largely replaced by elite educational products, exemplified by growing Asian and other ethnic faces on Wall Street. It is no coincidence that the Wall Street Journal first published the book "Tiger Mother".　　The high IQ of Wall Street's new blood is even considered an important factor in the financial tsunami. This evolution reinforces the old rule of the American Elite: "The rich and poor, but the Ivy League education can extend to infinity." "In other words, the premise of maintaining America's elite status and identity is increasingly based on the elite education represented by Ivy League schools."　　The essence of the current "tiger Mother" controversy is that her representative's success in sustaining the next generation of elites is difficult to emulate for other elites. From "aristocratic politics" to "elite politics", the top elites in America are somewhat similar to the transition from the six Dynasties to the imperial examinations in the Tang and Song dynasties. The American Jewish population is the biggest winner of the evolution, and Asians are catching up.　　From this perspective, Amy Chua and her Jewish husband represent the typical winners of the elite's continuing competition, while Tiger Mother reflects the intensity of the competition. Until the 1950 's, Harvard was doing its best to maintain the "worst one-fourth students of happiness" policy as a natural way for families to continue their elite status.　　But now, from Ivy League entrance to graduate employment, has become a "slit throat" type of fierce competition. The democratization of elite education in the United States is to some extent achieved the "equality of everyone before the achievement."　　But the "results" here are not purely fractions, but include social achievements in various other areas. Carabel, a renowned social scholar at Harvard University, wrote in 2007 in The New York Times that wealthy parents began to hire expensive educational advisers to start early in the long "Ivy race" during the toddler period.　　The motivation here is to guarantee the continuity of social and economic dominance through elite education. The effectiveness of the "tiger Mother" approach to education is, first of all, the early intellectual intelligence of "crossing the village without this shop". This is the fact that the Harvard Black sociology professor Gates, who clashed with white police two years ago, has highlighted the facts, as well as the large number of lower-class blacks who have broken the family structure and have lacked intellectual stimulation at an earlier age, and have been given the opportunity to gain access to elite education when primary and secondary schools It's like wolf back to human society and never learns to speak.　　The result is that American Ivy League schools take care of the minority students enrolled under the "affirmative policy", mostly like Mr Obama, from an upper-middle-class family that has been well educated since childhood. Another hidden social subject of "Tiger Mother" controversy is "work ethic". The German sociologist Max Weber first proposed "The Protestant work ethic", once was the Anglo-American economic leading world main annotation, once upon a time, the white American Protestant in the social economy competition is lagging behind, the Jewish and the Catholic race came to the next. The work ethic of Asians now looks better. As the Tiger Mother boasted, the diligent white parents, also very few KenSpend two or three hours a day to accompany the children to practise the piano.　　This work ethic is directly related to the results of social competition, and it is also the sour grape ingredient in the noise of anti-tiger mother. This is not to mention the Tiger Mother's own cultural background. Since the economic center of gravity in the two song dynasties moved south, the original "beasts" in the work ethic beyond the north, and immigrants overseas Southeast Asian Chinese, their economic success abroad, to a large extent from the local indigenous work ethic, and become "Asian Jew", also in exchange for a lot of discrimination and persecution.　　As the next generation of Chinese Filipino, the Tiger mother shows the Superman work ethic behind, which implies the bitterness of Southeast Asian Chinese. The book "Tiger Mother" also reflects the problem of modern American public education. The important prerequisite of strengthening the education mode of Tiger Mother is the comprehensive cooperation of the private aristocracy school.　　The two daughters of the Tiger mother are the Johns Hopkins School in Conn., the American aristocracy, who spends more than 30,000 dollars a year on tuition, not the average middle-class family. The intensification of the competition of elite education has highlighted the monetary factors, which make the private aristocratic "preparatory schools" with high tuition cost but full educational quality gain great advantages.　　Although public school graduates, which account for 90% of the American Middle school population, remain the majority of Ivy League admissions, according to the statistics, if all American high schools are ranked according to the proportion of graduates entering Ivy third (Harvard, Yale, Princeton), then 94 of the top 100 are private pre schools. The same is not an exception to the tiger-mother couple, who are also third alumni, who have not only continued to maintain a high proportion of private middle school alumni (both incumbent President Barack Obama and Vice President Biden), but have extended the next generation to expensive private schools. The two daughters of President Obama are examples.　　Ms. Brooks, The New York Times's big-shot columnist, who recently made a sarcastic remark about Amy Chua's "soft", has pointed out that the federal government in Washington is doing everything possible to send his children to a noble school. The strong reaction of the American society to "tiger Mother" is not without the yearning and envy of the elite status which is closely intertwined with money income. The most sour grapes are probably condemned by Tiger mother education to "destroy the integrity of the personality." May I borrow Khrushchev's famous sayings about principle and head, and change the saying "Shizhi" to: "What is the use of ' complete personality ' after losing the economic status of the elite and becoming a social underclass?" "(the author for the travel and scholar)