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Looks like Amy Chua i.e. "The Tiger Mom" is not done with telling off everyone else on how they're raising their kids all wrong. The Yale Law professor recently posted an essay summarizing the views of her latest book titled, "The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America."

The main thesis of the book points out on how most successful cultural groups in America tend to possess three qualities: an attitude of superiority, a concurrent sense of insecurity, and impulse control. Some groups got 'em, others don't, they argue.

But the one that's definitely going to raise more than a few eyebrows would have to her theory on how "[b]eing in America a long time seems to correlate with declining performance." She writes:
"Most fundamentally, groups rise and fall over time. The fortunes of WASP elites have been declining for decades. In 1960, second-generation Greek-Americans reportedly had the second-highest income of any census-tracked group.

"Group success in America often tends to dissipate after two generations. Thus while Asian-American kids overall had SAT scores 143 points above average in 2012 — including a 63-point edge over whites — a 2005 study of over 20,000 adolescents found that third-generation Asian-American students performed no better academically than white students."

"The fact that groups rise and fall this way punctures the whole idea of “model minorities” or that groups succeed because of innate, biological differences. Rather, there are cultural forces at work."
So the implication here is that Chua actually believes that specific cultural groups are inherently better than others. Something tells us that Chua's book might not make for compelling reading.

[NYTimes]