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I am a Chinese mother with two daughters. I have a Ph.D. from Yale, so I am not one of the "losers" described by Amy Chua. I am absolutely appalled by her characterization of "Chinese mothers". None of the hundreds of Chinese mothers I personally know is like that! I was not raised like that, my Chinese friends were not, and most definitely I am not raising my daughters like that. Amy Chua is doing a lot of damage to a lot of people with this book by serving her own need of "sharing" and "therapy" - her daughters, her family, and the Chinese American community. What concerns me the most is the damage to Chinese American children. They are already needing better grades, better record, more extra cirruculum activities and what not to get into college or post graduate schools than their counterparts in any other groups. Now they have to deal with the stereotype of having a "Tiger mother" behind their excellence, too? But I doubt Amy Chua would worry about that, given what she put her own children through in the name of "love".