No one complains ???? Have you not watched TV in the last 10 years? There are entire genres of comedy mostly devoted to jews complaining about their parents.

When art historians analyze late 20th and early 21st century culture, they will certainly coin the jewish-complaining art movement, which spanned television, movies and stand up comedy for like 30 years, and is still running strong with Curb your Enthusiasm.

Chinese is the new Jewish.

Used to be there were quotas on how many Jews to let into Ivy league schools. Now that's applied to the Asian kids, with "diversity" as the excuse.

I'm also sure for every joke and stereotype of the Chinese mother, you can find an equivalent one about the Jewish mother.

No Jewish mother does what Chinese mothers do, according to the original article. I'm Jewish, by the way. No Jewish mom would deny her bubbeleh dinner. EVER. I'd like to add that I wish my parents would have pushed me more.

How did Jews become a part of this, anyway?

Not Jewish, but I went to school with a lot of kids from successful Jewish families of varying levels of religiosity.

I think at this point that the whole "overbearing Jewish parents" thing is more of a self-conscious joke than anything else, excepting perhaps some of the more religious Jewish families. I don't know if it's gotten to that point for Chinese-Americans yet.

Also, by "a Chinese," what do you mean? Is there any hyphenation after that, e.g. -American, -Canadian, -Hong Kong, -Malaysian? Or are you a mainlander? There's significant cultural differences.

You've never met any neurotic, therapy-prone Jews?

I wonder if this is partly due to these families growing their kids in a "foreign" country - Chinese in the US, Jews elsewhere.

These families feel their kids have to compete with the natives and may be at a disadvantage initially.

Once you get the safety of feeling at home -- this sort of behavior tends to disappear (Japan being the exception here.)

I wouldn't say that's true, "Jewish mother stereotype" has a full length Wikipedia article of its own, although it's an old stereotype.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_mother

Why single out Jews? Do you have any evidence that Jewish mothers do this in any sort of systematic way? Why not ask why when _any_ mother dies this, no one complains? And what makes you think they don't?

Not Jewish, but grew up with many Jewish friends - Their parents had high academic expectations but weren't anything close to "Asian Parents."

Chinese or ABC? other than physical appearance ABCs are no different then white Americans. Chinese in China are nothing like ABCs in America. ABCs are a disgrace to the Chinese race. How does it feel to look Chinese but can't even write in supposedly "your own language". They shouldn't even be called Chinese, they are Americans.

Downvotes! Care to explain why?

I can only venture a guess and say that Jewish people have always isolated themselves and their practices under the purposefully exclusive and secretive shroud of Judaism and all its tenets and customs.

As such, Jewish parenting practices don't fall under the harsh lens of scrutiny as does the more blatant and hand-wavy aspects of Asian parenting (the mother's "mean face" and public displays of superiority in the form of music recitals and such referred to in the article).