The Tiger Mother, Amy Chua, along with her husband Jed Rubenfeld, is back with her latest controversial book.

Let’s not pretend that we all haven’t noticed that certain groups of people in North American society consistently outperform the general population in conventional measures of success: financial, academic, and prestige occupations.  The authors dare to point this out and to offer an explanation that successful groups all share a set of traits they call the Triple Package: a superiority complex, group insecurity, and impulse control.

What’s ironic about their theory is that, if correct, no group can enjoy long-term, multi-generational success.  The more successful a group is, the less insecure it becomes, thus eroding a key component of the Triple Package.  There is great pressure put on group superiority complex by North America’s culture of equality where all people are nominally considered to be equal to each other.  Finally, the modern culture of immediate gratification undermines the discipline of impulse control.  I guess you can call conventional success, the culture of equality, and the pressure of immediate gratification the anti-Triple Package.