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Tiger Mom: Some cultural groups are superior
She's doubling down.
Amy Chua, the self-proclaimed "Tiger Mom" who, in 2011, published a book arguing that Chinese women are superior mothers — thus their offspring superior children — has even more to say.
In "The Triple Package," Chua and her husband, co-author Jed Rubenfeld, gather some specious stats and anecdotal evidence to argue that some groups are just superior to others and everyone else is contributing to the downfall of America.
Unsurprisingly, the Chinese Chua and the Jewish Rubenfeld belong to two of the eight groups they deem exceptional. In no seeming order of importance, they are:
- Jewish
- Indian
- Chinese
- Iranian
- Lebanese-Americans
- Nigerians
- Cuban exiles
- Mormons
These groups — "cultural," mind you, never "ethnic" or "racial" or "religious" — all possess, in the authors' estimation, three qualities that they've identified as guarantors of wealth and power: superiority, insecurity and impulse control.
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