I can barely believe this. Amy Chua, the "Tiger Mom" who apparently terrorises her daughters by threatening to sell their treasured possessions if they do not succeed (according to her first book), has now written a book claiming that eight religions and "cultural groups" are superior to all others.
It's official: We are going backwards as a species. I guess all the people who died in WW II did so in vain, then, and everyone who has fought for civil liberties or battled to stamp out this kind of thinking has wasted their time. Anyone who has experienced racism or xenophobia must surely deplore this book (although you don't have to have experienced either to deplore them, of course). And the book is published by someone respectable - Penguin! When did it become OK to say such things?
It's like the issue in the UK at the moment of borders being opened to people from Romania. You should hear the way people at home talk about them. It's a disgrace.
I am saddened that anyone in today's world can think that it's possible to sort human beings into a scale of superiority of any type at all, let alone a scale based on culture, religion, nationality, or race. Has history taught us nothing? Have we seriously not learned yet all the lessons that are imparted in kindergarten - i.e. help others, be kind, it is better to be healthy than wealthy, we are all equal, and so forth? Even more scary is that the author is an educated Yale law professor with a platform from her previous book.
I wish I was a student of hers or an editor at her publishing house so I could make an effective protest by leaving her class or refusing to work on her book.
http://nypost.com/2014/01/04/tiger-mom-some-groups-are-just-better-than-others/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2534257/Tiger-Mom-roars-time-book-naming-eight-superior-groups-people.html
It's official: We are going backwards as a species. I guess all the people who died in WW II did so in vain, then, and everyone who has fought for civil liberties or battled to stamp out this kind of thinking has wasted their time. Anyone who has experienced racism or xenophobia must surely deplore this book (although you don't have to have experienced either to deplore them, of course). And the book is published by someone respectable - Penguin! When did it become OK to say such things?
It's like the issue in the UK at the moment of borders being opened to people from Romania. You should hear the way people at home talk about them. It's a disgrace.
I am saddened that anyone in today's world can think that it's possible to sort human beings into a scale of superiority of any type at all, let alone a scale based on culture, religion, nationality, or race. Has history taught us nothing? Have we seriously not learned yet all the lessons that are imparted in kindergarten - i.e. help others, be kind, it is better to be healthy than wealthy, we are all equal, and so forth? Even more scary is that the author is an educated Yale law professor with a platform from her previous book.
I wish I was a student of hers or an editor at her publishing house so I could make an effective protest by leaving her class or refusing to work on her book.
http://nypost.com/2014/01/04/tiger-mom-some-groups-are-just-better-than-others/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2534257/Tiger-Mom-roars-time-book-naming-eight-superior-groups-people.html