Thursday, February 17, 2011

Strict Chinese Families

"Second, Chinese parents believe that their kids owe them everything. The reason for this is a little unclear, but it's probably a combination of Confucian filial piety and the fact that the parents have sacrificed and done so much for their children. (And it's true that Chinese mothers get in the trenches, putting in long grueling hours personally tutoring, training, interrogating and spying on their kids.) Anyway, the understanding is that Chinese children must spend their lives repaying their parents by obeying them and making them proud."

Children should owe their parents for pushing them that hard to get where they are at in life right now. If i were them i would hate to being put through that much torture but if i think back on it i would still be thankful for the time they did for yelling at me to make me do better. Makes me think that they actually believed that i could do the best. My parents are only half as strict at the lady in this article. My 5th grade teacher was strict on me because i was a slacker in the beginning of the year, but they yelled and pushed me harder and i started doing better in school. So i think that yelling at them is actually not a bad thing.

The only bad thing about being this strict is not having that much freedom. They are like trapped in their house forced to learn all the time. I do not think that is very good for when they get to college because they would not know how to handle them self much. But i still think that the children should take care of the parents when they are older because the parents spent like a lot of years to raise them and spend that much time on them.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Animal Farm & Egpyt

The connection between Egypt and animal farm is that Both effect on revolution.but the difference is that while Egypt was mostly calm and not much violence. Animal farm had a lot of violence to protest what they were fighting for. They had some similarities in the injuries.