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HARDtalk: Amy Chua, Author

10/02/2011

Amy Chua, Author

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Stephen Sackur asks Amy Chua if there is an inevitably about the decline of the west.

Stephen Sackur asks Amy Chua, author of The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, if there is a cultural inevitably about the decline of the west and the rise of the east.

Amy Chua is a respected writer on geopolitics and a mother but it's her views on parenting that have recently captured the world's attention. Her book The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother has become a publishing sensation. Its controversial message on childrearing raises wider questions - has America forgotten the value of discipline and hard work? Stephen Sackur asks if there a cultural inevitably about the decline of the west and the rise of the east?

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