Reading Post #2

The Triple Package by Amy Chua—4/12/2014(50 pages read)

I have been reading about what the triple package is and why the most successful people have this triple package.    According to the Amy Chua the author of this book, people are not successful because of their race, religion or nationality. The secret of their success is the way they are raise, how they feel about themselves, their experiences growing up and their ability to self-control.  In American we are taught that everyone is equal, that no group is superior to another. But according to Amy Chua, America’s most successful groups believe, even if they don’t say so aloud, that they’re exceptional, chosen, and superior in some way. For example the Jews grow up with the belief that they are the “chosen people”, a feeling their faith instils in them.  Mormons also grow up believing something similar.  Iranians have a superiority complex because they are descendants from Persians, one of the most successful empires in history.  Asians and Asian-Americans also come from one of the oldest and most successful empires. Others successful groups have a superiority complex which in the author defined as “a deeply internalize belief in that group’s specialness, exceptionality, or superiority”.  This superiority complex could also come from having already been successful. An example of this was the first Cuban immigrants who were professionals and elites who were forced to abandon their property, business, social status and political connection to save their lives and come to a Miami in America.  The superiority complex seem to be an internalize idea of having to live up to a higher standard than anyone else,