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Re:Why Chinese Mothers Raise More Academically Successful Ch... by cgranade on Monday January 10, 2011 @12:40AM (#2087630)
Good intentions can't justify abuse, and I don't know of a better for a pattern of calling one's child "garbage":

  Once when I was young—maybe more than once—when I was extremely disrespectful
  to my mother, my father angrily called me "garbage" in our native Hokkien dialect.
  It worked really well.

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