If you've ever had a conversation with me about China, you know that I hate small children in China. I don't loathe children, nor do I detest Chinese children because I know it has little to do with nationality, but damn! the small children that modern, Chinese, parenting culture and the urban one-child policy have spawned are horrrrrible. A population of children allowed to do whatever, wherever, whenever, results in out-of-control, entitled brats.
In China, the term associated with spoiled only-children is "little emperor syndrome," and believe me, it's an overtly noticeable phenomenon, even without prior knowledge of the established concept. [In other words, researchers who claim it doesn't exist are, to put it politely, full of it.]
Here are a few articles on the world of little emperors.
The world of contemporary, well-off Chinese families: "Y" is for "yacht."
In China, the term associated with spoiled only-children is "little emperor syndrome," and believe me, it's an overtly noticeable phenomenon, even without prior knowledge of the established concept. [In other words, researchers who claim it doesn't exist are, to put it politely, full of it.]
Here are a few articles on the world of little emperors.
- NPR - the benefits and disadvantages of not having siblings - China's 'Little Emperors' Lucky, Yet Lonely In Life
- NPR - the privileges and pressures of only children in China - China's Only Children Face Great Expectations
- Ministry of Tofu - a short piece about LE's from the Chinese perspective - Extinction of the Tiger Mom and Rise of (Not So Little) Emperors
- TIME - the future of Asian LE's - Tiger Cubs on the Prowl
- NPR - a theory about how being a little emperor is influencing China's rising divorce rates - 'Lightning Divorces' Strike China's 'Me Generation'
- Uncornered Market - an editorial piece I found online, which describes LEs and includes links to articles discussing similar problems in US families - China: So Many Little Emperors
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