Where does a child get their drive to academically succeed? Amy Chua’s work, “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior,” starts off by informing her readers that the reason for success in Chinese children is there parents are more strict compared to Western parents. Chua states in her work that when it comes to Asian parents, they hold higher standards, they are not sensitive when it involves confronting their children and being very direct with them disregarding their self-esteem. Chinese parents believe that their children owe them everything considering that they are set up for success because of the way they were raised. Chua stereotypes both Chinese and Western culture and doesn’t include any of the negative after effects of the mindset of Chinese parenting. In contrast to Westernize culture, Chinese parents are setting academic success while harming their children’s social skills and relationship building. Amy Chua begins her debate by listing what her kids can and cannot do, then proceeds on saying that the list is the reason for her children’s success. Chua goes on to provide a disunion between Western and Chinese parenting styles. She provides statistics on how different Chinese mothers envision academics over Western mothers. Chua presents examples of conditions that Chinese parents can get away with that would seem improbable to Western parents. Chua places confidence in, “Western parents are concerned about their children’s psyches. Chinese parents are not. They assume strength, not fragility, and as a result they behave very differently,” (Chua 55). After taking everything into account, Chua concludes failure will not be an option when your only options are to practice and work as hard as you can. Chua’s goal is to educate readers about different parenting styles and she chose Western and Chinese as her two examples. Chua does a great job giving her own point of view on the Chinese parenting approach and provi