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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So your daughter knows an Indian girl and you've made a generalization about all Indian parenting.  I hope you are a troll.  Because otherwise you're the sort insular, annoying, myopic, stupid, unthinking judgemental cow who (sadly) makes people around the world despise Americans.

The sanctimonious "but my way should be adopted by everyone" is so utterly offensive it is quite extraordinary.  
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I wonder how many Indian families would write home to say "my kid goes to a school which is full of bratty, entitled, trash talking, fat, lazy, pampered, arrogant, smug, materialistic kids with horrible racist and judgemental parents."

I don't think any would. [/b] Because they don't come from a country that tries to inflict its social paradigms on the rest of the world.    [/quote]

Don't worry.  Plenty of Indians have this opinion (and worse). [/quote]

+1   I was just gonna say the same thing.  I don't have the stats on the people on this forum, but I'm venturing to guess that the majority are white or black, and very few are Indians raised in India. So, you probably won't see too many posts stereotyping and degrading American parenting styles on this forum.  But I'm sure you'd get an earful if you were in their social circles.[/quote]

I'm an Indian PP and my parents are (for the most part) APPALLED by my parenting. 
How it's horrible that I let the kids CIO.  How I should still be hand-feeding my 2 year old.  How I shouldn't be so strict.  How my K DD should be learning her times tables.  How we're not religious enough.

They love my kids, but feel that my parenting style is way too "American".  And, trust me, there is plenty of criticism of 'western' parenting techniques in their social circle.[/quote]

That's interesting.  I'm Indian-American, and my mom loves how I parent.  She wonders why she spent years with poor sleepers and stayed home when she clearly would have preferred to be working because she had no help from my father.  I'm sure they will disagree with more as my kids get older and are allowed to date, etc.[/quote]

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