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“I think the biggest difference is that I've noticed Western parents seem much more concerned about their children's psyches, their self-esteem, whereas tough immigrant parents assume strength rather than fragility in their children and therefore behave completely differently.”

Thinking Children Self Seems Parent Differences Self Esteem Tough Concerned Assuming Western Esteem Behave Immigrants Fragility Psych Immigrant Parents

Author:Amy Chua

“I can only think seriously of trying to live up to an ideal, to improve myself, if I am split in two pieces. There must be a good “I” who is going to improve the bad “me.” “I,” who has the best intentions, will go to work on wayward “me,” and the tussle between the two will very much stress the difference between them. Consequently “I” will feel more separate than ever, and so merely increase the lonely and cut-off feelings which make “me” behave so badly.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Trying I Can Two Feelings Differences Pieces Cutting Ideals Lonely Increase Stress Intention Behave Splits Prove Myself Best Intentions

Author:Alan Watts

“There are 25 differences in the way women and men behave in the workplace. These 25 differences lead to men receiving higher pay and women having better lives or at least more balanced lives.”

Men Way Differences Pay Higher Men And Women Behave Receiving Balanced Workplace Better Life Balanced Life

Book:Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it

Source: Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it

“there is practically no difference at all between a family and a nation, except the difference in size. A family is a nation seen through the wrong end of a telescope; a nation is a family seen through the right end of a telescope, and I don't believe it is possible to achieve a happy and successful family life, or a happy and successful national life, unless we bear this simple fact in mind and behave accordingly.”

Mind Believe Ends Facts Nations Differences Simple Family Successful Achieve Bears Don't Believe Size Behave Family Life Telescopes

Book:A pocketful of pebbles

Source: A pocketful of pebbles

“Even the new feminist research on sex-role socialization and sex differences has sometimes had the unfortunate consequence of creating a new set of stereotypes about what women feel and how women behave. Despite the large amount of overlap between the sexes in most research, the tendency to label and polarize and thus to exaggerate differences remains in much reporting of data, which may, for example, report the mean scores of male and female populations but not the degree of overlap.”