Not sure where to put this, so I thought I'd ask here?
So I read an article about the dangers and woes of Asian parenting styles and how horrible they are and can be for children. But I want to know why they focus so much on Asian families? Many other cultures and households have the same/similar standards for their kids. My parents have very strict rules for me and my siblings and have never allowed us to spend the night at someone else's house, watch TV, get poor grades etc and this is what I would call the norm for most Eastern European families and many religious families. So why do they pick on Asians specifically when this is a very common practice in white families too?
Russian families have the same tendencies pointed out in the article and I know my Nigerian friends have discussed that this is how their families are too, including the "you are shaming us by getting anything less than the best grade/score/award" clause.
Is there a key element that I'm missing about this parenting style that makes it distinctly Asian or is the media really villainizing a specific group for something that is common in a variety of racial/ethnic groupings?
Thoughts?
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