She gained notoriety in 2011 as the uncompromising 'Tiger Mom' - boastful that Chinese mothers make better parents and ultimately have more successful children.
Amy Chau, 51, has inspired the fury of the public on Twitter with her new controversial theory that some races and religions are just superior to everyone else.
Dubbed 'simply racist' by one commentor on Twitter, another pulled no punches and called her a 'full blown eugenics pushing racist!'
She declares there to be only eight successful and superior groups of people in the United States.
She breaks down the 'Triple Package' succinctly for her readers as follows:
1) A superiority complex: Chau believes that any cultural group who innately thinks they are just better than others has an advantage.
Ignoring the wars, genocide and abject human misery this kind of thinking has caused, Chau and her husband declare that 'the superiority complex is antithetical to mainstream liberal thinking...the stuff of racism , colonialism, imperialism, Nazism.'
2) Insecurity: Chau and her husband believe that a deep seated insecurity can be a motivating drive to achieving success.
'That insecurity should be a critical lever of success is another anathema, flouting the entire orthodoxy of contemporary popular and therapeutic psychology,' they write according to the New York Post.
'Note that there’s a deep tension between insecurity and a superiority complex,' the authors continue.
'It’s odd to think of people being simultaneously insecure but also convinced of their divine election or superiority.'
3) Impulse Control: Chau thinks that perseverance and patience are virtues that have been lost to most Americans - but still exist among her eight golden cultural groups.
The Triple Package?
The Eight Races and Relgious Groupings Amy Chua Names As Better Than Everyone Else and Why?
Jewish - Jewish Americans have the highest incomes per head across the nation
Indian - Along with Indian Americans
Chinese - Chua infamous first book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom explored the
relationship between Chinese parents and their children's success
Iranian - Iranian-Americans have historically excelled in business, academia, the sciences, arts and entertainment.
Lebanese-Americans - Such as Ralph Nader have had a significant participation in American politics and social and political activism.
Nigerians - Ivy League admission rates of West African immigrant groups far exceed those of non-immigrant American blacks .
Cuban exiles - Eva Mendes and Gloria Estefan are prominent Cuban exiles
Mormons - Mormons such as Mitt Romney are high profile politicians.culled
What do you think?
I will come back later and tell you what I think.
ReplyDeleteIts monday,gat loads of work to do.
Jobless bitches like Mane Beee or what ever her name is,pls don't envy,just tell God to bless you.
When I read it yesterday I was happy for once we are in a positive light and she is right to a very large extent of immigrants in present day America
DeleteHappy because you are favoured. If she had said otherwise, you would have shouted racism. Some peeps inability to be objective in analysing simple quotients is the reason church business is so lucrative in Nigeria.
DeleteNigerians are brilliant
ReplyDeleteLet's go a bit beyoud calling her a racist, let's focus on her claims, are they right or wrong? everyone knws d Jewish people are d most successful in d world, look at d whole world complaining of economic crisis,yet Asia is rising, d effort a Nigerian puts in his hustle in Naija, if he puts in such effort in most nations of d world, u n I knw wat d outcome would be, I don't disagree wit her
ReplyDeleteAsia and Jewish people are they d same?
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ReplyDeleteChinese people like Nigerians. Tonto Poko Dikeh has a wig line called ladystar.
ReplyDeleteWhy do they call her a rasist?she only gave her own point and to me she is so on point;she is correct but i don't really have a broad idea with the immigrants,but i wish i can the book and read further,where is Leona?i think she will know better.
ReplyDeleteTHAT IS GUD,THOUGH THAT IS THEIR OWN OPINION
ReplyDeleteHmmm were do I start from, abeg julit borrow me that ur seatsss
ReplyDeleteShe is a fool all those groups she listed are nationalities not races!
ReplyDeleteI do not think she is an eugenics pushing racist, she just might be right but then again it is her opinion. Why people are taking it P is because there is a lot of truth to what she has said and Being humans, we cannot stand the truth.
ReplyDeleteShe forgot Irish-Americans. They have produced a few Presidents.
ReplyDeleteNo Italian-Americans? Hmmm.
I can imagine the angst when "African-Americans" see Nigerians listed here. Beef!
I didn't even understand jack in what she wrote.
ReplyDeleteAnd Galore 'jack'is not my horseband's name oh.
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Controversy sells.
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thats her fucking problem
ReplyDeleteI kinda agree with her because I haved lived in the US for almost a decade & as a Nigerian American, you can see the difference in the race run; we always strive for the best & also for our kinds, we go to the best schools & get to the top unlike te real black Americans majority of them are so lazy they want to be on the fast lane, with all the opportunities here thgey refused to get to the bacalaureate level, after high school diploma they start as retail associate & ends there, while still collecting benefits from the govt.
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ReplyDeleteShe's just jobless. Such a 2man survey
ReplyDeleteAny one she talk e correct. Thank God na good she talk about us.
ReplyDeleteThe Triple Package is the definition of an Average Nigerian down to a tee.
ReplyDeleteShe wants her book to sell,hence the reference to naija knowing we have nos,biz strategy #winks
ReplyDeleteCo's it's an honour for anyone to regard us as successful.....are we?nope!..not yet!
The woman is correct on her analysis of Nigerians in the U.S, I believe we shall get a major break very soon at the rate Nigerians go back to school here and strive to better themselves, parents also discipline and encourage their children/wards to be educated here. We have it in us to excel, but we have to be careful about the dark side. God bless my people.
DeletePeople here insulting this woman....una go school at all.... Daftness!! If anything u should be proud of wat she said....u Nigerians are good at what u do! Kaiii otondos! FYI she's portraying you in a positive light.. Not associating you witcorrouption or 419,!
ReplyDeleteMost of out 21year old nija female don't even look half as gud as this 51year old lady. Smh
ReplyDeleteMost men like u look like trolls anyway
DeleteOnly cos she put naija amongst the powerful race tis why some of you are loving her...loool...if it were to be 6 hated races she wrote about n included naija, una no go butter am like dis oo...talk true!
ReplyDelete@ anon 7:55pm, u spoke my mind. When I got to where I saw she was 51, I had to go back to d picture to look closely... She looks good for her age. I even thought she was in her 30s.
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Wow she looks young 4 d age.well dats her opinion,others have theirs to.
ReplyDeleteThe unique thing about nigerians is the suffering and laughing mentality. It is only ligical that when you push a man so hard the he reach the wall, the person will turn back and retaliate/fight. But a nigerian man will do just the opposite! If you push a nigerian so hard that he reaches the wall, he will rather prefer to break the wall so that you continue pushing him than to retaliate.
ReplyDeleteNigerians have greate finesse to endure adversity/hardship, we can endure alot and endurance/preseverance makes a person learn how to be patient, and patient people are often optimistic people-e go better tins.
We do not just work very hard, but we work smarter also be it in doing evil or good, we always give our best. All this thing make nigerians conquer, take charge, and eventually succeed every and anywhere they go.
I AM PROUD TO BE A NIGERIAN, NO MATTER WHAT!!!
GOD BLESS NIGERIA!
LONG LIVE THE FRN!
Paragon7ven.
The unique thing about nigerians is the suffering and laughing mentality. It is only ligical that when you push a man so hard the he reach the wall, the person will turn back and retaliate/fight. But a nigerian man will do just the opposite! If you push a nigerian so hard that he reaches the wall, he will rather prefer to break the wall so that you continue pushing him than to retaliate.
ReplyDeleteNigerians have greate finesse to endure adversity/hardship, we can endure alot and endurance/preseverance makes a person learn how to be patient, and patient people are often optimistic people-e go better tins.
We do not just work very hard, but we work smarter also be it in doing evil or good, we always give our best. All this thing make nigerians conquer, take charge, and eventually succeed every and anywhere they go.
I AM PROUD TO BE A NIGERIAN, NO MATTER WHAT!!!
GOD BLESS NIGERIA!
LONG LIVE THE FRN!
Paragon7ven.
It's not even just about being successful. It's also about striving through adversity, and considering how much life throws at people, especially Nigerians; of course we belong on the lost more than any other black /African group.
ReplyDelete@anon January 7, 2014 at 12:49 AM; dumb
ReplyDeleteAnonymous January 6, 2014 at 2:57 PM; really? Jewish national? Tell me it's not so!
ReplyDeleteJeremy Lin will say he's American by nationality and he's of Chinese origin. Probably of the Han race but if you didn't know you'll broadly say Chinese.
Probably because a lot of these groups she's talked about are Americans by nationality (or eventually they will be,) she's now divided the sub-groups into race.
lepa shandy you are an irritant to society...
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