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Name: The Triple Package
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Author: Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld

Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld

How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America

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What’s in it for me? Discover why some cultural and ethnic groups do better than others.

Although Jews make up only a fraction of the world’s population they account for around 20 percent of all Nobel Prize laureates. Why is that? And how did the Mormons go from being viewed with suspicion by many to becoming an extremely wealthy and influential group in America?

As these blinks will show, the factors behind the success of many prominent faith-based and ethnic groups in America are in fact neither religious nor genetic. If you look at these groups a bit more closely, three distinct forces – the Triple Package – stand out. Together they create the magic formula for success. But what are they?

In these blinks, you’ll learn

the connection between marshmallows and achievement;
why you should “eat bitterness;” and
the real reason the United States has lost its position in the world.

Successful groups in America often share common characteristics.

It’s clear that certain groups in America excel above others. And while your personal success can depend heavily on that of your parents, the American Dream of rising from rags to riches is still a reality for some, and for immigrants in particular.

Of course, this depends on your definition of “success,” but if by success you mean having an important role in society and plenty of money, then it’s possible to compare the relative accomplishments of different groups. For instance, Indian Americans have the highest median household income of all census-tracked ethnic groups, clocking in at $90,500 per year, but the Taiwanese come a close second.

Another group that’s garnered a high standard of achievements are Jewish Americans, who are continually awarded the Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Awards, and earn huge amounts from hedge funds disproportionate to their population size.

However, the overall success of a group can also decline. For instance, in the early 1900s, Protestants were on top of the American economy, but today they hold a less than average amount of the country’s wealth.

So, how do some groups rise and others fall?

It’s got a lot to do with the Triple Package, a combination of three forces that all successful groups in America share, each of which contradicts a fundamental aspect of American thinking.

They are:

A superiority complex, or the deeply held belief that your group is somehow better than others. This could be based on religious supremacy (Mormons), the glory of the group’s history (the Chinese), or being told that you are the “chosen people” (Jews).

The second aspect is insecurity or the feeling that you aren’t good enough. For example, immigrants can be particularly insecure as they deal with many economic and social anxieties.

And the third element is impulse control, or the strength to resist temptation. This is especially key when facing difficult conditions.

The key to the package’s potency is the tension between its parts.

So, the Triple Package both produces success and is contrary to American culture. That means that every successful group in the country is, in one sense or another, an outsider.

For instance, the superiority complex is antithetical to liberal teaching, which says that no individual or group is better than any other. In fact, thinking otherwise was used to justify such atrocities as racism, colonialism and genocide.

The Triple Package produces more than success and its absence is not the cause of poverty.

Although the Triple Package leads to success, it can also produce a variety of other consequences.

First, the Triple Package groups face disappearance as they assimilate into American culture and intermarry – two consequences of success. For instance, the hugely successful Huguenots, French Protestants who faced persecution by the Catholic Church in the seventeenth century, have entirely disappeared.

Cultural groups like the Mormons are particularly successful.

So, now you’ve seen how different groups defined by religion, ethnicity and country of origin can be more successful than others. But what really distinguishes these groups from others is the fact that they’re cultural groups, which means they share specific values, beliefs and practices passed down through generations.

These include Jews, Cuban exiles, Iranians, Armenians, Kurds, Turks, the Lebanese, Asians – particularly the Chinese and Indians – West Indians and African groups like Nigerians.

Most successful groups have a superiority complex that belies America’s mantra of equality.

However distasteful it may be, successful people often believe that they’re better than others in one way or another and the same goes for groups, some of which have very pronounced superiority complexes.

So, while some groups truly believe in equality, others claim they’re unique. The most famous example is probably that of the Jews, a group that lays a 3,000-year-old claim to being God’s “chosen people” – although many Jewish thinkers have been deeply uncomfortable with this notion.

Scorn, fear and family are powerful sources of insecurity – and success.

While insecurity is a trait shared by all humans, it comes in a variety of forms. So, what kind of insecurity do the most successful groups experience?

One caused by public scorn, fear and family. Each of America’s most successful groups has been scorned in some way throughout history. As Voltaire said, everything but contempt can be borne. Scorn motivates people to climb the social ladder.

Impulse control is crucial and can be strengthened through culture.

Have you ever noticed that if you ask a successful person how they have accomplished so much they’ll bring up all the ways they failed instead? Well, it’s no coincidence that they have this tendency and it’s got everything to do with the importance of perseverance.

Ever since the Stanford psychologist Walter Mischel conducted his famous “marshmallow test” in the 1960s, a growing body of empirical proof has emerged showing that impulse control is an essential factor in success.

The Triple Package has downsides: psychological problems and harm to others.

Now you know how the Triple Package can propel people to success, but not every aspect of it is a blessing. The success that the package affords you comes at a hefty price, and depending on how much you value things like standing and money, it might not be one you’re willing to pay.

For instance, impulse control can prevent you from enjoying life. But it can also help you break free from the constraints of the world by giving you the ability to decide whether or not you want to devote yourself to conventional success.

America is no longer a Triple Package nation.

So, some groups have the Triple Package, but what about America itself?

Simply put, it doesn’t. In fact, since the Triple Package runs contrary to many emblematic American beliefs, groups who have it do well precisely because the rest of the country doesn’t have it.

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The Triple Package (2014) is a sweeping account of the rise and fall of different cultural groups in America. These blinks explain the traits essential to success, how they are at odds with American values and the unintended side effects they often have.

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Superiority plus insecurity is a formula for drive. Superiority plus impulse control is a formula for hardship endurance.

—Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld

Wer The Triple Package lesen sollte

Anyone interested in the logic of success
People who want to know why some groups excel above others
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Über den Autor

Amy Chua and her husband Jed Rubenfeld are professors at Yale Law School as well as published authors. Chua penned the controversial internationally bestselling parenting book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and Rubenfeld has written two mystery novels.

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