When CNN called me this week to see if I'd share my thoughts on the backlash surrounding Amy Chua's Wall Street Journal article "Why Chinese Mothers are Superior," I told them I would have much to say. You see, I was raised by two tigers.
Millions of American parents who happen not to be Chinese woke up January 8 to an amazing discovery: They were awful parents. This came as a shock. They naively believed they'd treated their children as lovingly as they could.
Author Lac Su recalls his abusive upringing raised by "tiger parents" in his book "I Love Yous Are For White People".
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