Insight From A Tiger Daughter — Transcript

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1. 0:00since it hit bookstores here it is a
2. 0:02close-up shot of Battle Hymn of the
3. 0:04tiger mother it has made national
4. 0:06headlines the best-selling memoir by a
5. 0:09chinese-american mom includes some
6. 0:11controversial parenting examples that
7. 0:13have outraged many Western parents and
8. 0:16our own Christine Lee wrote a response
9. 0:18to those critics in her print debut her
10. 0:21article is out in this morning's Arizona
11. 0:23Republic and she introduces us to her
12. 0:26tiger mother as I read Amy Chua's book I
13. 0:31was surprised by how many similarities
14. 0:32her daughters and I shared I thought it
15. 0:34was normal to have what Americans now
16. 0:36call a tiger mother I love my mom but
17. 0:39she sure had a bit of tiger in her my
18. 0:41article in The Arizona Republic gives
19. 0:43you my perspective a tiger daughter
20. 0:45growing up in American society over the
21. 0:48years this cub grew up and my mom
22. 0:50mellowed out she recently came from LA
23. 0:52to visit me at work and on that day any
24. 0:54trace of the tiger mother I knew seemed
25. 0:57to have melted away my mom hates cameras
26. 1:00and she hates the microphone even more
27. 1:02so the last thing she expected me to do
28. 1:04was a job that entailed both of those
29. 1:06things I wasn't sure how my mom would
30. 1:10react to my workplace she quickly
31. 1:11learned that our office involves a green
32. 1:14screen my mom also watched my co-workers
33. 1:16on TV and she had a little crush on
34. 1:19Scott light after giving my mom a tour
35. 1:21of her newsroom we sat down to conquer
36. 1:24her biggest fear an on-camera chat you
37. 1:27don't consider yourself a tiger mom you
38. 1:29said no I'm not I have some regrets so
39. 1:32that that's why I won my my daughter's
40. 1:38easier life my mom gave up her dreams of
41. 1:42becoming a nurse when she immigrated to
42. 1:44the u.s. from South Korea so in a way I
43. 1:46felt like she was pushing me to succeed
44. 1:48for the both of us that meant endless
45. 1:50hours of tutoring and extracurricular
46. 1:52activities including the piano and the
47. 1:54violin I did to ride this season so I
48. 1:58don't have any regrets about that but
49. 2:01the path I ultimately chose became the
50. 2:02opposite of what she wanted
51. 2:04I stink and anchor if it's not on it's
52. 2:09tough but despite her opinions she stood
53. 2:12by silently as I moved from state to
54. 2:14state to pursue my dream yeah I had to
55. 2:17give up
56. 2:20I had to compromise and it seems that
57. 2:24over the years she has come to terms
58. 2:26with who I am so now are you happy that
59. 2:29I've chosen this career field for myself
60. 2:34yeah yeah I'm happy do you wish still
61. 2:38that I was doing something else no I
62. 2:41don't have any complaints about you
63. 2:44right now through my mom I learned that
64. 2:46a tiger stripes can change my mom is now
65. 2:49beaming at my work
66. 2:51who knew certainly not me very excited
67. 2:56I'm very proud of my mother proud of you
68. 3:01christine lee 12 news today and we're
69. 3:04proud of christine lee too and you can
70. 3:06read Christine's full story by picking
71. 3:08up today's arizona republic' just check
72. 3:10out the living section and it is I
73. 3:13opened a great piece and very common
74. 3:15among Asian families and their how they
75. 3:18were reared by their parents and by
76. 3:20their moms our mom kept her very busy
77. 3:22yes very busy yeah so it's a really good
78. 3:26piece pick it up and and there's the
79. 3:27book as well it is a best-seller how to
80. 3:29be a tiger mother