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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Being a Tiger mom!

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How on earth?

Being a Tiger Mom is clawing your way to the top, if I ever saw it.  Its trying to overcompensate for all of the opportunities you never had in your home land.  You know that right?

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Well, the privileged White moms are obsessed with Tiger Moms. They direct all their cattiness towards them. Recognizing envy and the "sour grapes" mentality of this class - being a Tiger mom is indeed an unintentional status symbol![/quote]

I totally disagree.  I think that perhaps there are middle class suburban moms obsessed with Tiger Moms, but the wealthy and UMC white moms aren't at all.  Tiger Moms aren't really even high on the radar of your average wealthy or UMC white mom.  These moms tend to send their kids to private schools (or even parochial) where you don't encounter many Tiger Moms and they certainly aren't in the "in" circle or part of a group that is envied.

Not having to work too hard for your wealth and/or social status = unintentional status symbol.  Tiger Moms are the opposite.  [/quote]

That's great to know that the wealthy and UMC white moms do not envy Tiger moms!  So do you think it is mainly lower MC and poor white moms, or just lower MC?[/quote]

NP.

This is a rising class thing to me.  The "Tiger Mom" author is a law professor, but she is clearly screamingly insecure about her children's ability to maintain their SES.  Lots of moms across a broad range of SES are like that.

It's also a curse for ambitious immigrants and lower SES Americans. (Think Venus Williams' dad, who convinced his wife to have two kids just so he could turn them into tennis stars.)[/quote]

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