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Not Jewish, but I went to school with a lot of kids from successful Jewish families of varying levels of religiosity.

I think at this point that the whole "overbearing Jewish parents" thing is more of a self-conscious joke than anything else, excepting perhaps some of the more religious Jewish families. I don't know if it's gotten to that point for Chinese-Americans yet.

Also, by "a Chinese," what do you mean? Is there any hyphenation after that, e.g. -American, -Canadian, -Hong Kong, -Malaysian? Or are you a mainlander? There's significant cultural differences.



I'm a Malaysian, for your info.

But most Chinese parents here rise their kids in pretty much the same ways as Amy Chua.


Tutoring everyday but that's only because there aren't many good jobs if you didn't have decent education.




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