After the inception of industrial revolution, the ways in which we used to live our lives have changed a lot. The current society has gradually evolved into a competition oriented capitalist model where each and every individual is competing with his fellow beings in order to live a successful life, where the general concept of successful life is flawed itself.
The study of education has evolved into the so called successful system based on objective evaluation of student’s performance (Fries). However, the fact being neglected is that every human being is special with different capabilities. Children are suffering the most because of this competition oriented culture as the world, especially the parents, want their kids to be successful, and the criteria for being successful is too narrow or common for all.
Thus media, which acts as an eye of the society, has come up and portrayed this issue to create awareness about the children being suffered and the talents being wasted. In the last decade, Asian filmmakers have produced numerous works on the same topic. Another work which is the center of much attention is the book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, written on same topic by Amy Chua, a famous professor at Yale Law School who has written widely acclaimed books on free-market democracy and global insecurity.
According to her book, Amy Chua treated her children in the same way as most Chinese, Singaporean and other Asian communities treat. They want their children to excel in specific domains, for example, acquiring only A-grades in each subject or mastering piano at a very young age. Throughout the book, Chua has described the harsh ‘Chinese’ method of parenting that she inherited from her culture. Her children were subjected to very strict rules which include: no sleepovers, no hanging-out, no grade other than an A in academics and mother imposed choice of extracurricular activities (Kolbert).
The instruments to be played by two daughters are chosen by Chua, piano for the older girl while violin for the younger one, and makes them practice it four to five hours a day (Kolbert). These methods of parenting are just like dictatorships in which the parents impose their will on their children (Gray).
The so called successful stringent Chinese parenting model worked on her elder daughter but backfired in the case of her younger daughter, who wanted to live her life not according to her mom and to explore horizons that were different from what her mom’s culture permitted. But the good point is that Chua finally realized that she was wrong, and the good point is that she has now emphasized to bolster our children to find their true potential (Gray, Freedom to Learn)
The renowned Asian movies that highlighted the same issue are I Not Stupid & Taare Zameen Par. I Not Stupid is a painful tale of three young boys and their excruciating quest for achieving good grades in the so called elite educational system of Singapore. The movie shows the socially real misery and of all EM3 classified students through the character of these EM3 labeled boys.
工业革命开始后，在我们以前的生活方式已经改变了很多。当今社会已逐渐演变成一种竞争导向的资本主义模式，每一个人的竞争对手是为了人能过上成功的生活，在那里生活的一般概念是有缺陷的本身。
教育的研究已经发展成为所谓的基于学生的表现客观评价成功的系统（炸薯条）。然而，事实上被忽视的是：每个人都有特殊的能力不同。孩子是最痛苦的因为这个竞争导向的文化世界，尤其是父母，希望自己的孩子成功，而成功的标准是太窄或共同所有。
因此，媒体，作为社会的一个眼睛，有来描绘这一问题创造了儿童遭受的人才被浪费的意识。在过去的十年里，亚洲电影人对同一主题的作品。另一个工作是人们关注的中心是书，虎妈妈的战歌，写在同一主题的由艾米Chua，著名的耶鲁大学法学院教授谁写了广泛的好评，在反对自由市场民主和全球不安全的书。
根据她的书，艾米Chua对待她的孩子一样，大多数的中国人，新加坡和其他亚洲社区治疗。他们希望他们的孩子到Excel在特定的领域，例如，仅获取A等各学科或掌握钢琴在一个非常年轻的年龄。在本书中，她描述了残酷的“中国”的育儿方法，她从文化的继承。她的孩子都受到非常严格的规则，其中包括：不过夜，不出门，没有等级以外的学者和母亲强加在选择课外活动（科尔伯特）。
是由两个女儿玩乐器的选择是蔡，钢琴的老姑娘，年轻的小提琴，并使他们练习一天四到五小时（科尔伯特）。这些养育方法就像是在父母把自己的意愿强加给他们的孩子的独裁统治（灰色）。
所谓成功的严格的中国父母模型曾在她的大女儿却适得其反，在她的小女儿的情况下，谁想过她自己的生活不是按照她的妈妈和探索的视野，不同的是她母亲的文化允许的。但好的一点是，她终于意识到自己错了，而好的一点是，她现在已经强调支持我们的孩子去寻找自己真正的潜能（灰色，自由的学习）
著名的亚洲电影，强调了同样的问题是我没有愚蠢和地球上的星星。我不是愚蠢的是三个男孩和他们对所谓的精英教育系统获得好成绩的追求新加坡极度痛苦的故事。这部电影展示了社会现实的苦难和所有EM3分学生通过这些EM3标记的男孩的性格。
