Chinese Mothers are the New Jewish Moms

The Wall Street Journal just featured a piece by Yale Law professor Amy Chua (above, with daughters) about how Chinese mothers are superior, because they nag and push and noodge their kids to success. Reading it, Jewdar couldn’t help but feel we’d heard all this before.  We could understand why Professor Chua might think this is all pretty radical stuff, but you’d think hubby, Yale Law professor Jed Rubenfeld might have told that the Chinese aren’t exactly the first model minority to introduce those methods to the West (and while Jewdar’s not going to begrudge the Chinese anything, there are over a billion of them–pound for pound, number of smart group members to number of group members total, we’re still the champs).

More importantly, for the sake of all of us, we hope Professor Rubenfeld lets the missus know that the end result of all of this is likely to be a whole generation of crappy Chinese comedians complaining about how their mothers made them neurotic.  Jewdar strongly suspects that the material won’t be any funnier running from top to bottom than it is from right to left.

What do you think?

About The Author

jewdar

The Tel Aviv-born, Milwaukee-bred Jewdar has a bachelors' from the University of Wisconsin, a Masters from NYU, and an Honorable Discharge from the US Army, where he spent two years as an infantryman in the 101st Airborne Division. He's the co-author of "The Big Book of Jewish Conspiracies", the Humor Editor of Heeb Magazine, and a watcher of TV. Smarter than most funny people, funnier than most smart people, he lives on the Lower East Side with his wife and two sons.

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