To the Editor:

Re “How to Disobey Your Tiger Parents,” by Michelle Kuo (Sunday Review, April 15):

Like Ms. Kuo, I am a Taiwanese-American. Unlike her, I enjoyed the unconditional support and encouragement of my immigrant parents from the time I was pre-med to my seven years as a freelance classical musician. I continue to enjoy that support now as a student of political science.

Her essay perpetuates a stereotype about Asian-Americans that may bear a hint of truth for some families but that buries the diversity of immigrant stories and perspectives. It paints my parents and the parents of my Asian-American peers as unassimilated foreigners whose children need an instruction manual to navigate a basic human relationship with them.

Parents with specific and demanding expectations exist in every demographic. These instructions reek of “model minority” nonsense.

JENNIFER WU, NEW YORK