The head of an international school in Singapore feels that Ms Chua is describing a type of pushy middle-class parent of any ethnicity found across the world.

ECONOMIST: The contest with China moves into the classroom and nursery

Announced in October 2012, 3net Studios - based at both Sony Pictures headquarters in Los Angeles, CA and Discovery Communications headquarters in Silver Spring, MD - employs a team of creative personnel, utilizing the world-class technology and production expertise of the parent company's joint venture partners to produce the highest quality native 3D and 4K content available.

ENGADGET: Initial projects from 3net Studios include the world's first native 4K TV show

The welfare state's expansion into every nook and cranny of too many people's lives has been less about saving people from deprivation and expresses more a condescending middle-class view of people as helpless and hapless unless the state helps them to parent correctly, improve their lifestyles, cut down on smoking or drinking, etc.

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