Amy Chau (right), with fellow Asian American Ann Curry, also married to
a white man of some influence, and father to her two offspring,
during an interview on the Today Show on her book Battle Hill of the Tiger Mom.
Curry was recently in the New York news headlines for:
...ongoing construction in the [Upper West Side] home has triggered not only a bitter feud but a number of lawsuits between the neighbors [for the last ten years on a house they never lived in].
Four of the residents sued Curry for close to one million dollars,
...claiming that dangerous and illegal work on her brownstone was creating a safety hazard for people living next door.This Asian aggression doesn't stay behind the closed walls of family life, apparently.
Ann Curry was fired from her Today Show anchor post due to disagreements (read here "feuding") with her co-host Matt Laurer.
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Oz Conservative's writer Mark Richardson has posted a generous review on the new book by Amy Chua, written with her husband Jed Rubenfeld.
I wrote earlier of the confidence I saw in the portraits of 19th century American families. I said of their confidence:
The confidence of these wealthy 19th century New Yorkers comes from the responsibilities that they are willing to take on. They take seriously the Biblical quote: "For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more."Amy Chua, who gave herself the title Tiger Mom, has the arrogant confidence of the new elite: the upper-class Conservo-Liberals (she calls herself a conservative), who gain their wealth through elite institutions in America - universities, banks, corporations, newspapers. And she's at it again. I've written about Amy Chua here and here.
This materialistic elite, of which Chua is a part, is more concerned about keeping its benefits intact, rather than seeing its wealth as a way to make contributions to society. Chua's confidence is more arrogant than humble.
Chua, and her family, demonstrate this in various ways:
- She, with her husband Jed Rubenfeld, has published a new book titled: The Triple Package: Why Groups Rise and Fall in America. It is basically a book which describes the "decline" of whites in American society. These are the very whites in whose institutions Chua has made her gains.
One of Chua's arguments is that groups fail because of "insecurity." This is a continuation of her long-standing theme of aggressive interactions in order to move ahead.
But this strategy has failed with her children, whom she pushed to be musicians (preferably world-famous concert pianists), but who have ended up being mediocre bloggers instead.
- Jed Rubenfeld, her husband is now writing soft porn without quite leaving behind his day-job as a lawyer.
- Her daughter Lulu Chua, who was touted to be a concert pianist, and who performed once in Carnegie Hall, decided to be a tennis player instead! And even that is a passing activity. We haven't heard of any Lulu Chua in the international tennis tournament circuit.
- Her other daughter, Sophia Chua, was accepted to Harvard, but this author's perspective on her acceptance is:
This is simply how Ivy League and other so-called elite universities work today, and have since 1968 at least. These schools are all under new, not-improved, multicultural management—and for that very reason more ruthlessly nepotistic than ever before.I've tried to find out what Sophia Chua's major at Harvard is, but as of last year, she is still undeclared (having been in Harvard a year), but blogs about her courses thus:
By my count, young Ms. Chua—half-Chinese, half-Jewish, a girl, a double Harvard legacy and a Yale faculty brat—is a member of at least five preferred groups at once. Should she have odd sexual proclivities, that would make it six.
[I'm taking] Three philosophy classes: “Equality and Liberty,” “Rationality and Irrationality” (I’m all about the binaries, guys), and a seminar on Plato. Then I’m in a two-person tutorial where we read Hindu religious texts in translation, as well as Advanced Philosophical Sanskrit, where we’re currently reading a Buddhist philosophical treatise in the original Sanskrit. I also sit in on this class about Athens and Rome whenever I can, because I’m weird.Sophia Chua has traveled to India to get a better grip on this. In her blog post India, Here I Am, she writes:
I've spent the last three months chilling out about Tyga, scratching the surface of enlightenment in my Philosophy and Sanskrit classes (you all know by now that I'm doing a joint concentration in those subjects, right? If not...there you are), bartending college reunions, and then binge watching TV in home sweet Connecticut.Her idea of traveling to India to get philosophical enlightenment is to work for a rural development project.
As of last Thursday, though, I've embarked upon a seven week journey in India. This is the first time I've traveled alone, not to mention the longest I've ever been outside the beautiful country I'm lucky to call home. I'm interning with the dynamic and innovative Shiv Nadar Foundation, which is dedicated to revolutionizing education opportunities in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Specifically, I'm working at the VidyaGyan school, one of the coolest education concepts you've never heard of.
To explain briefly: VidyaGyan provides a 100% free, world-class education -- computer labs, soccer fields, everything -- to gifted rural youth.
Her brief dismissal of Western philosophy is with the words:
I also sit in on this class about Athens and Rome whenever I can, because I’m weird.I believe it is whites who, following the remnants of 19th century altruism, allowed Amy Chua, her husband and her daughters to thrive in this society. Without their beneficiary, she would be living a far less privileged existence in some autocratic country, like the China her parents left behind. And wouldn't have married a mild, meek Jewish guy, who channels his inner creativity by writing soft porn (I mean, why not go for the real thing and go hard!).
And with the help of such Chinese/Asian/Asia-leaning parents, parents who accommodate these "cultural" behaviors, and mixed-race off-spring who don't live up to expectations, we can be sure of an accelerated decline in white civilization.
But, the aggression of the likes of Chua is now public. They no longer need to furtively assess their surroundings to: find white husbands; enter Ivy League schools; teach their half-Chinese children that Chinese ways are the best. Their war is now out in the open.
This is, I think, to their disadvantage in the long run. When they begin to offer us second-best re-hashes of what they or their parents/grandparents left behind in China/Korea/"Asia", and people, especially the continuously demonized whites, begin to realize this second-best offer, I think that a group, a core group, of whites will begin to discredit this. Whenever whites have been confronted with something that would destroy their Western civilization, a small group re-focuses and rechannels its energy to reclaim that loss, if not to destroy the culprit and start out again, often better and stronger.
I don't see any reason why this shouldn't happen again.
Chua Family
One anonymous commenter at Oz Conservative makes similar points:
While I don't necessarily consider Chua a prototypical Chinese (see a breakdown of Chua below), she certainly embodies something I felt when I lived in Asia. There is a certain deadness to individual life. A very materialistic and insecure view that is great for making people consumer/strivers but terrible for the actual mental health of the individual. It's one of the reasons I don't live over there.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
If white society collapsed Asia would be a good backup, but its clearly a backup. Do any of us really want to live that way?
Tiger Mom
Are Chinese Mothers Superior to American Mothers?
Posted By: Kidist P. Asrat
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