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Some Races Are Just Better Than Others

icyfroth — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 03:46:48 GMT

SHE'S back ... and she has brought the sweeping statements with her.

It turns out Amy Chua, the so-called "Tiger Mother" who published a book in 2011 arguing that Chinese women are superior mothers has more to say.

In a new book, The Triple Package, Chua and her husband, co-author Jed Rubenfeld, argue that some "cultural" groups of people are superior to everyone else.

As The New York Post reports, the duo deem the following groups as exceptional. (Incidentally, the Chua (Chinese) and Rubenfeld (Jewish) belong to two of them.)

• Jewish

• Indian

• Chinese

• Iranian

• Lebanese-Americans

• Nigerians

• Cuban exiles

• Mormons

"That certain groups do much better in America than others - as measured by income, occupational status, test scores and so on - is difficult to talk about," the authors write. "In large part, this is because the topic feels so racially charged."

Chua, a law professor at Yale, first became a media sensation in 2011, when The Wall Street Journal published an extract from her book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.

She herself is an American, raised in the Midwest, but she used her heritage and all the worst stereotypes of Chinese women - cold, rigid Dragon Ladies, hostile towards their own children - to criticise the Western way of parenting, which she also said would be the downfall of America.

Chua wrote about calling one of her two daughters "garbage" for being rude, dismissing a homemade birthday card as subpar ("I don't want this - I want another one"), refusing to let her girls watch TV or participate in school plays or have sleepovers, of threatening to give away a beloved dollhouse if her daughter couldn't master a complicated classical composition within days.

Her book really can be reduced to a simple argument: Chinese mothers are better than those of any other race, and these parenting methods are going to result in the West's big fear - the continued rise and ultimate supremacy of China.

Chua's book was a bestseller, so it's little surprise she's back with this even more incendiary thesis.

The author based their argument upon trends of American immigrant groups and identified the following three criteria as making these groups so successful:

1. A superiority complex

Any group that collectively believes they are inherently better than any other, say the authors, has an advantage.

2. Insecurity

At the same time, the authors argue, within these groups people are driven by insecurity, "a critical lever of success".

3. Impulse control

The "ability to resist temptation", is yet another factor the authors identify as leading to success, "especially the temptation to give up in the face of hardship or quit instead of persevering at a difficult task".

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Hmmm...

Re: Some Races Are Just Better Than Others

silverfaun — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 04:07:48 GMT

I like Asians as a race. Its just the money thing that brings them down a bit imo.

Re: Some Races Are Just Better Than Others

lakeland27 — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 04:19:30 GMT

asians a race ?

i wonder who printed this piece of provocation anyway ?

Re: Some Races Are Just Better Than Others

icyfroth — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 04:30:05 GMT

• Jewish
• Indian
• Chinese
• Iranian
• Lebanese-Americans
• Nigerians
• Cuban exiles
• Mormons
"That certain groups do much better in America than others - as measured by income, occupational status, test scores and so on - is difficult to talk about," the authors write. "In large part, this is because the topic feels so racially charged."

Mormons are a race?

Re: Some Races Are Just Better Than Others

lakeland27 — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 04:31:25 GMT

cuban exiles are a race ?

Re: Some Races Are Just Better Than Others

icyfroth — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 04:33:32 GMT

50 Shades Of Gray are a race?

Re: Some Races Are Just Better Than Others

spotweldersfriend — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 04:34:05 GMT

They should have included polymelians there.The three legged race:-)

Re: Some Races Are Just Better Than Others

lakeland27 — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 04:38:44 GMT

@icyfroth wrote:
• Jewish
• Indian
• Chinese
• Iranian
• Lebanese-Americans
• Nigerians
• Cuban exiles
• Mormons
"That certain groups do much better in America than others - as measured by income, occupational status, test scores and so on - is difficult to talk about," the authors write. "In large part, this is because the topic feels so racially charged."

Mormons are a race?

'difficult to talk about '' its a pity it wasn't difficult enough to shut them up, or for modoch's to print. how difficult are carp non-articles like this to skip altogether ? like bolts narky piece that earned him his Criminal record, there is no purpose served by trash of this kind.

Re: Some Races Are Just Better Than Others

icyfroth — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 04:40:42 GMT

@lakeland27 wrote:
@icyfroth wrote:
• Jewish
• Indian
• Chinese
• Iranian
• Lebanese-Americans
• Nigerians
• Cuban exiles
• Mormons
"That certain groups do much better in America than others - as measured by income, occupational status, test scores and so on - is difficult to talk about," the authors write. "In large part, this is because the topic feels so racially charged."

Mormons are a race?

'difficult to talk about '' its a pity it wasn't difficult enough to shut them up, or for modoch's to print. how difficult are carp non-articles like this to skip altogether ? like bolts narky piece that earned him his Criminal record, there is no purpose served by trash of this kind.

Hmmm I dunno, there's plenty of trash served up here to go round

Re: Some Races Are Just Better Than Others

imastawka — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 04:42:19 GMT

"That certain groups do much better in America than others - as measured.....

How about diphallians?

Re: Some Races Are Just Better Than Others

lakeland27 — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 04:42:50 GMT

yes. this ranks fairly badly .

Re: Some Races Are Just Better Than Others

freakiness — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 06:42:42 GMT

@imastawka wrote:
"That certain groups do much better in America than others - as measured.....

How about diphallians?

haha, not many people get 14,000 to their redit ask me anything sessions 😄

Re: Some Races Are Just Better Than Others

darksideofthemoon — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 20:13:39 GMT

Very good spotwelder

Re: Some Races Are Just Better Than Others

darksideofthemoon — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 20:14:54 GMT

America should be afraid - very afraid

Re: Some Races Are Just Better Than Others

the_bob_delusion — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 20:39:20 GMT

@spotweldersfriend wrote:
They should have included polymelians there.The three legged race:-)

You come up with some classics.

Re: Some Races Are Just Better Than Others

vampire-teddy — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 01:02:47 GMT

all she has shown is how some people are worse than other

Re: Some Races Are Just Better Than Others

the_great_she_elephant — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 02:20:49 GMT

@spotweldersfriend wrote:
They should have included polymelians there.The three legged race:-)

They forgot the cattle race too - and theOxford/Cambridge boat race.

Re: Some Races Are Just Better Than Others

bluecat*dancing — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 02:23:25 GMT

And, the egg and spoon race.

Re: Some Races Are Just Better Than Others

the_great_she_elephant — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 02:34:08 GMT

@bluecat*dancing wrote:
And, the egg and spoon race.

Ah yes, generis ovum, cochleari.- definitely a winner!

Re: Some Races Are Just Better Than Others

darksideofthemoon — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 03:44:08 GMT

and the mill race