Tiger mothers run risk of raising ethnic outcasts in pursuit of academic success

Tiger mothers run risk of raising ethnic outcasts in pursuit of academic success
- March 6, 2014
- Research by Jennifer Lee, sociology professor, is featured on Phys.org, Science Daily and Science Codex March 6, 2014
From Phys.org:
For Chinese and Vietnamese immigrant parents and their children, success is equal
to getting straight As, graduating from an elite university and pursuing an advanced
degree. However, these narrow measures of success can make those who do not fulfil
the strict aspirations feel like ethnic outliers, warn Jennifer Lee of UC Irvine in
the US and Min Zhou of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Their findings
are published in Springer's journal Race and Social Problems.
For the full story, please visit http://phys.org/news/2014-03-tiger-mothers-ethnic-outcasts-pursuit.html#jCp.
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