Tiger Mom Backlash? Asians Without Academic Success May Be Shunned
Thursday, March 6, 2014 - 13:40
in Psychology & Sociology
In the War On Smart Kids Department, tiger mom mentalities may cause ethnic outcasts, say sociologists. Smart Asian kids will be shunned for being too smart? of course not. Instead, the scholars argue, the children who don't achieve might be. Sociologists Jennifer Lee of UC Irvine Min Zhou of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore detail in Race and Social Problems their weak observational study based on a small sample to make their headline-grabbing conclusion. The data was surveys of 82 adult children of Chinese and Vietnamese immigrants, who were randomly selected from the survey of Immigration and Intergenerational Mobility in Metropolitan Los Angeles. read more