New controversial book by "Tiger Mom".

She's well known for advocating a strict upbringing, Chinese style.



Now she tries to figure out why some "cultural groups" do so well.

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2014 isn't starting on the highest note. Millions of Americans are still unemployed (and losing their insurance), and our students are doing pretty unimpressively on international exams. Fortunately, Amy Chua — the infamous Tiger Mom — and her husband Jed Rubenfeld have a new book, The Triple Package, to help a nation that has "been losing its edge." Their strategy? Isolating eight cultural, ethnic, and religious groups they deem superior and telling all of us to act like them.

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Accusations of xenophobia follow.



She's mostly right about which groups out-perform the others, I think.



I've yet to meet a Persian slacker or a Nigerian do-nothing.



She looks for the answers in identity, and I think she's wrong. The answer is (IMO) in the strategies that certain ethno-cultural groups use.



(not divorcing, having few children, supporting them through education, demanding results, choosing education that leads to employment, reading with the kids etc.)

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Shockingly, this approach isn't going over so well. Many have accused Chua and Rubenfeld of actively trolling pretty much the whole country by trying to offend everyone. Reviewing the book for the New York Post, Maureen Callahan writes that Chua and Rubenfeld use "specious stats to argue some groups are just superior to others and everyone else is contributing to the downfall." She dismisses the book as a "series of shock-arguments wrapped in self-help tropes, meant to do what racist arguments do: Scare people."

via JREF Forum http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=271687&goto=newpost