She's Still At It

Photo of Chua with her husband, posted on the New York Times Magazine


I googled "Amy Chua" and narrowed the search to "news" and found this headline:
Tiger mom' Amy Chua proposes melding Eastern and Western parenting styles during Birmingham International Center event

I have written several posts on Chua after she briefly entered the news when she declared that "Chinese" mothers are superior to all others, and specifically white mothers:
-A Sino-Draconian Mission
-Chinese and (vs.) Jews
-Retreating Tiger Mom
-The Arrogance of Non-Whites

Chua will be:

...the speaker and a woman of consequence honoree at the event, which will be held May 5 at The Club. Her inclusion is part of the Birmingham International Center's focus on China. Tickets are $75. Each year BIC highlights a different country in its programs, which educate schools, businesses and Alabama communities about the spotlight country's culture.

Here is one of CHua's daughters, who joined the ROTC, and is a:

...philosophy and South Asian studies concentrator who will attend Yale Law School on an educational delay and plans to work as a judge advocate

Now, color me skeptical, but how can we be sure that "South Asian studies concentrator" will give all her loyalties to America, and will attach some "South Asian" biases in her military judgments? "South Asian studies concentrator" actually means that Chua minored in Sanskrit. Yes, go for Eastern philosophy, instead of anything to do with the West. Chua has restricted her blog to "invitees" only, but snippets are available online where she writes things like:

I also sit in on this class about Athens and Rome whenever I can, because I’m weird.

And on her twitter posts, she describes herself as:

Harvard '15, aspiring Buddhist philosopher and/or warrior princess.

This is the same Chua offspring who performed in Carnegie Hall as a teenager, where I wrote in 2011:

...Chua's "prodigy" has only played once at Carnegie Hall, and she's already eighteen. She's placed high in a couple of parochial competitions: second in a piano competition in the Greater Bridgeport Symphony competition for young musicians in 2010, and first at the Music Teachers National Association piano competition in 2006. She is no child prodigy...

And who abandoned a life of music performance to study Philosophy and South Asian Studies in Harvard.

And her Harvard University profile describes her thus:

Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld is a junior and joint concentrator in Philosophy and South Asian Studies, with an interest in the underlying moral frameworks of Buddhist and Hindu texts. An avid traveler, she spent the summer of 2013 teaching ethics classes to children in rural India. Sophia is an Army ROTC cadet.

And here are Chua's ambitions after law school:

She plans to attend law school after graduation and wants to practice law during her three-year commitment to the army, either prosecuting for the military commission or against sexual harassment.

Yep, that "sexual harassment" in the army, again.

And I'm not sure how she pays for her tuition in Harvard, but ROTC students are eligible for its many grants and scholarships. Although she does tweet about her gradutaion from Harvard (although this may not apply specifically to her):

Graduation is a racket I mean we pay a small fortune to go to school and now there's like $500 in hidden charges for this ceremony? No thx

And she tweets how serious she is about the ROTC, and American institution:

How to quickly piss off an rotc cadet: take down her American flag and replace it with your party decorations.

And her tweet to "white ppl":

White ppl:
*laugh at Asian kid touring Harvard*
*In 10 yrs, try to abolish SAT when that Asian kid works his ass off to achieve his dream*

And this tweet on the Metropolitan Museum's exhibition: China: Through the Looking Glass

Yes, cultural appropriation can be an issue when ppl disrespect sacred symbols, but re: MetGala I was thrilled to see my heritage on display.

And finally this tweet (for more just go to the twitter page):

As a non-Christian, I love that Christmas reminds us of our shared humanity. WWI Centennial: Christmas Truce of 1914 http://shar.es/1HXzrI
(The link is to the "Christmas Carol" truce of German and British soldiers, which is just the kind of thing a non-Western would comment as "a good thing." Only that Germans and Brits resumed to bombing each other only a few days later. Also, in the eyes of this non-Westerner, Brits and Germans are equal culprits in this war. Except that the Germans were trying to annihilate the West, and the world, and the British were fighting to save it.

And this tweet, showing the intellectual evolution of a Chinese-American:

Freshman year homework situation: 10-pg papers on Aristotle, Rawls, Marx due same day. Senior year: "write a haiku inspired by Beethoven"

Like I've noted many times before, Asians born in the West or half White/ half Asians, will always gravitate toward "Asian" culture. Their loyalties will always focus on their "Asian" part:

And therefore, so much Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld, the "genius" Chinese "musician," and her loyalties to America.

Yale Law School professors Amy Chua ’84, J.D. ’87, and Jed Rubenfeld, J.D. ’86, attach second lieutenant’s bars to the uniform of their daughter Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld ’15 during the ROTC commissioning ceremony. [Image Source:Harvardmagazine.com]