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There Are All These New Books Out There Portraying Asian Mothers As Scheming, Callous, Overdriven People Indifferent To Their Kids' True Interests. For Their Part, Many Chinese Secretly Believe That They Care More About Their Children And Are Willing To Sacrifice Much More For Them Than Westerners, Who Seem Perfectly Content To Let Their Children Turn Out Badly. I Think It's A Misunderstanding On Both Sides. All Decent Parents Want To Do What's Best For Their Children. The Chinese Just Have A Totally Different Idea Of How To Do That.

The Most Successful Hyperpowers Are The Ones Where There Was Actual Intermixing. Tang Dynasty China Was Chinas Golden Age, And Contrary To What I Was Told When I Was Growing Up, Tang China Was Founded By A Man Who By Todays Standards Was No More Than Half Chinese. It Was A Mixed-blood Dynasty That Pulled In "barbarians" From The Steppe.

Real Self-esteem Has To Be Earned. I Also Believe In Virtuous Circles, Like, Nothing Is Fun Until You Are Good At It. It Is Great If You Can Instill In Children The Ability To Not Give Up, To Have A Work Ethic.

I Do Think That Maybe, Even Subconsciously, A Lot Of Parents In The West Are Wondering, Have We Gone Too Far In The Direction Of Coddling And Protecting - You Know, You See Kids, Sometimes That Seem Very Rude And Disrespectful. And The More Important Thing Is They Don't Seem That Happy.

We All Want To Do The Right Thing For Our Children. We All Don't Know What That Is And We All - You Know, You Won't Know Until The Future.