While I wouldn’t go so far as to say that I was raised by a “tiger mom” — the kind made famous by Amy Chua’s Wall Street Journal article, “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” — I am a child of Asian (Korean) immigrant parents who raised me to achieve great academic heights, or at least as great as possible. After getting a master’s degree, I remember my dad saying he’d pay for me to go get a Ph.D. “To study what?” I asked. He shrugged — what I studied didn’t seem to matter so much as adding a few more letters after my name.
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