There are many subcultures in the USA where parents drive kids and whole families drive kids to excel. Most of these areas revolve around athletics. For instance, the Black community in the US dominates little league basketball. Most weekends in a lot of families revolve around tournaments. That is all these kids do. Another subculture is rodeo. In fact, there are hundreds of subcultures where parents push and push their kids.
For Chua, she thinks her subculture, Classical Music, is the only one in the world. LOL.
It's possible that she (and other parents who share her views) dismiss these other subcultures as irrelevant. When violin, piano, engineering, sciences, and a few other technical fields are the only things that matter, why bother with anything else? I'd be interested in knowing if the rodeo crowd or the sports crowds ban their kids from sleepovers and other acitivities the way Chua does.
As an example, the stage mother culture of pushing your kids like crazy into acting is well known. But someone who won't let her kid be in the school play might dismiss them. Dunno.
Val
