The Triple Package (48 page)

“humiliation”
 . . . “sharp goad”:
Orville Schell and John DeLury,
Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-First Century
(New York: Random House, 2013), p. 7; see also Suisheng Zhao, “‘We Are Patriots First and Democrats Second’: The Rise of Chinese Nationalism in the 1990s,” in Edward Friedman and Barrett L. McCormick, eds.,
What If China Doesn’t Democratize? Implications for War and Peace
(New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2000), p. 23 (“[T]here is a rallying cry for Chinese everywhere . . . that after a century of humiliation” the time has come for China to “rise in the world to the place it deserves”) (quoting James Lilley, former U.S. ambassador to China and Taiwan).

Her father was an alcoholic, and her mother’s “way of coping”
:
Sonia Sotomayor,
My Beloved World
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013), pp. 11–4.

gave herself painful insulin shots
:
Ibid., pp. 3–4, 9.

“fragile world”
 . . . “blessed”:
Ibid., p. 11.

“decided to approach one of the smartest girls in the class”
:
Ibid., p. 72; see also pp. 117–8, 143.

“can make an enormous difference”
:
Ibid., p. 16.

“acting white”
:
See John H. McWhorter,
Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America
(New York: HarperCollins, 2001); John McWhorter, “Guilt Trip,”
The New Republic
, June 24, 2010; John U. Ogbu and Herbert D. Simons, “Voluntary and Involuntary Minorities: A Cultural-Ecological Theory of School Performance with Some Implications for Education,”
Anthropology & Educational Quarterly
29, no. 2 (1998), pp. 155, 161. In a 2004 speech,
Henry Louis Gates said:

I read the results of a poll from the
Washington Post
recently that interviewed inner-city black kids, and it said, ‘List things white.’ You know what they said? The three most prevalent answers: getting straight A’s in school, speaking standard English, and visiting the Smithsonian. Had anybody said anything like this when we were growing up, they would have smacked you upside your head and checked you into an insane asylum. Somehow, we have internalized our own oppression.

Henry Louis Gates, “America Beyond the Color Line,” in Catherine Ellis and Stephen Drury Smith, eds.,
Say It Loud! Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity
(New York: The New Press, 2010), p. 235.

phenomenon did not exist at all-black schools
:
See Roland E. Fryer, “‘Acting White’: The Social Price Paid by the Best and Brightest Minority Students,”
Education Next
6, no. 1 (2006).

“Remember that Bill Gates”
:
Anne-Marie Slaughter, “Rebellion of an Innovation Mom,” CNN World, June 5, 2011, http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/05/rebellion-of-the-innovation-mom.

on entertainment media
:
Friedman and Mandelbaum,
That Used to Be Us
, p. 128; see also Mark Bauerlein,
The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future
(New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 2008), chap. 3; Nicholas Carr,
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
(New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2010).

25 percent more time watching television
:
See Nancy Zuckerbroad and Melissa Trujillo, “U.S. Schools Weigh Extending Hours, Year,” Associated Press, Feb. 25, 2007 (citing a study finding that the average school day is 6.5 hours and the average school year is 180 days); The Nielsen Co., “TV Viewing Among Kids at an Eight-Year High,” Oct. 26, 2009 (estimating that kids age 6–11 spend 28 hours per week watching TV, which comes to 1,456 hours/year); “Children and Watching TV,” The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychology No. 54, December 2011, http://www.aacap.org/AACAP/Families_and_Youth/Facts_for_Families/Facts_for_Families_Pages/Children_And_Wat_54.aspx (estimating that kids watch 3–4 hours of television each day, which comes to 1,100–1,400 hours per year).

“Discipline. Patience. Perseverance”
:
“Khaled Hosseini: By the Book,”
New York Times
, June 6, 2013.

Google, Facebook, or the iPod
:
Amy Chua, “Tiger Mom’s Long Distance Cub,”
Wall Street Journal
, Dec. 24, 2011.

Jeff Bezos founded Amazon when he was “dead broke”
:
Robert Spector,
Amazon.com: Get Big Fast
(New York: HarperCollins, 2000), p. 84.

The present moment by itself is too small
:
See Rubenfeld,
Freedom and Time
, p. 16; Jed Rubenfeld,
Revolution by Judiciary: The Structure of American Constitutional Law
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005), p. 91 (“[A] person’s freedom . . . is bound up with his capacity to give his life purposes of his own making and to pursue those purposes over time”).

Happiness
 . . . “cannot be pursued”:
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
(New York: Harper Perennial, 1991), p. 2 (quoting Victor Frankl).

The page numbers in this index refer to the printed version of this book. The link provided will take you to the beginning of that print page. You may need to scroll forward from that location to find the corresponding reference on your e-reader.

academic achievement,
see
education and academic achievement

Academy Awards,
52
,
163

Acemoglu, Daron,
17
n

Achebe, Chinua,
81

Adams, James Truslow,
18

Adler, Alfred,
59
n

Adventures of Augie March, The
(Bellow),
162
,
163

African Americans,
2
,
100
,
156

elite schools and,
172

equality and,
76
–77,
80
–81

at Harvard University,
6
,
41
–42

income of,
43
–44

Mormons and,
30
–31

“oppositional” urban culture and,
222

poverty and,
44
,
74
–75

self-esteem of,
112

stereotype threat and,
78
,
80
,
81

superiority complex and,
72
–78

at Yale Law School,
42

see also
African immigrants; blacks

African immigrants,
105
,
156
,
194

Nigerian,
see
Nigerian Americans

at universities,
41
–42

upward mobility and,
168

alcohol abuse,
150
,
216

Alexander, Clifford,
43

Alexander, Elizabeth,
73

Alexander the Great,
90
–91

Allen, Woody,
52
,
108

Amanat, Abbas,
92

Amazon,
224

America,
26
–27

Constitution,
2
,
62
,
204
–6,
209

debt in,
215

Declaration of Independence,
204
–6

exceptionalism of,
201
,
219

impulse control and,
142
–44,
197
,
200
,
203
–6,
208
–9,
214
–18,
221
–24

infrastructure in,
215

insecurity and,
200
–203,
208
–12,
214
,
215
,
218
,
220
–21

live-in-the-moment message and,
1
,
2
,
10
,
27
,
143
–44,
204
,
205
,
207
–9,
214
,
224

rebelliousness of,
204
,
205
,
208

research and development in,
215

Revolution,
204
,
205

rise in standards of living in,
210
–11

savings in,
215

superiority complex and,
203
,
207
,
209
,
211
–12,
219
–20,
225

Triple Package and,
199
–225

American Conservative,
193

American Dream,
5
–6,
18
,
168
,
173
,
208

see also
upward mobility

American Express,
5
,
32
,
135

American Motors,
32

Amish,
119
,
180
–84,
187

ball games and,
183

education and,
119
,
181

impulse control and,
119
,
180
–81

insecurity and,
182
–83

superiority complex and,
181
–82

Ansari, Aziz,
164

anti-Semitism,
12
,
15
,
54
–55,
61
,
138
,
141
–42,
154
,
194
n

Appalachia,
174
–80,
210

impulse control and,
177
–80

poverty in,
169
,
174
,
175
,
178

substance abuse in,
175
,
178
,
180

Arabs,
156

Aronson, Joshua,
78

Ashton, Alan,
32

Asian Americans,
2
,
13
,
45
,
52
,
151
,
194
,
196

depression among,
104
,
150

education and accomplishment among,
24
,
45
–48,
78
,
79
,
110
–11,
131
,
151
,
170
,
172
,
173
,
194
–95,
213
n

entry visas of,
170

family and parenting among,
13
,
110
–11,
147
–51

impulse control and,
133
,
173

insecurity and,
13
,
110
–11,
173

musical training and,
46
–47,
126
–28,
129
,
164

opposition to stereotypes among,
164

self-esteem of,
111
–12,
151
,
213
n

stereotype boost and,
79

stereotype threat and,
78

suicide among,
150

superiority complex and,
13
,
173

tutoring and,
173

upward mobility and,
168

see also
East Asian Americans; Chinese Americans; Indian Americans

assimilation,
20
,
83
,
195
,
196

AT&T Mobility,
38

At Home in the Heart of Appalachia
(O’Brien),
177

Atlas, James,
161

Bacardi family,
37
,
71

Bain Capital,
31

Bar Kokhba revolt,
12

battle, life as,
15

Baughman, Gary,
32

Baumeister, Roy,
117

Beck, Glenn,
33
,
34

Bell, Daniel,
153

Bellow, Greg,
162

Bellow, Saul,
12
,
160
–64,
195

Benedict, Jeff,
34

Beneficial Life,
35

Benny, Jack,
52

Benson, Ezra Taft,
67
–68,
157

Bezos, Jeff,
224

Bharara, Preet,
49
,
131
,
165

Billete, Pepe,
68
–69,
71
–72

Black & Decker,
5
,
32

blacks,
see
African Americans

black schools,
77
,
222

Blaine, David,
119
–20

Blair, Tony,
219

Bloom, Harold,
137

Bloomberg, Michael,
52

Boggs, Lilburn,
64

Bonfire of the Vanities
(Wolfe),
210

Book of Mormon,
25
,
30

Book of Mormon Girl, The
(Brooks),
157

Borushek, Grisha,
161

Bose, Amar Gopal,
49

Bose Corporation,
49

Bowman, Matthew,
65

Brandeis, Louis,
62

Branden, Nathaniel,
212
,
214

Breaking Bad,
143

Brigham Young University,
25
,
32
–33,
35
,
157

Britain,
168
,
219

Bronx High School of Science,
170
,
172
,
173

Brooks, David,
54

Brooks, Joanna,
157

Buber, Martin,
63

Buffalo Creek flood,
179

Buffon, George-Louis Leclerc, Comte de,
200
–201

Bush, George H. W.,
46

Bush, George W.,
31

Bushman, Claudia,
66
,
67

Calvinism,
137
,
184
–85

Carmichael, Stokely,
43

Carnegie, Andrew,
202

Carroll, James,
186

Carter, Jimmy,
31

Castro, Fidel,
36
,
37
,
69
,
88

Catherine of Valois,
122

Catholics,
35
–36,
53
,
184
,
185

Catmull, Edwin,
32

Chabon, Michael,
63

Chaplin, Charlie,
52

Checketts, Dave,
32
,
137

Chen, Steve,
48

Chernin, Peter,
54

Chester, Eric,
216

chi ku,
125

childhood,
11
,
146
–47

Confucian approach to,
147
–48

China,
120
–22,
215
,
223

Confucian tradition of,
see
Confucian principles

decline of,
123

impulse control and,
220

Japan and,
121
,
122
,
123
,
158

Ming Dynasty,
121
–22

rising power of,
124
,
220

Chinese Americans,
7
,
8
,
45
–51,
56
,
57
–58

academic achievement and,
13
,
123
–24,
126
–31,
142
,
171
–73

bimodal communities of,
171

and breaking out of Triple Package,
197

chi ku
and,
125

discrimination against,
104
,
124

family honor and,
110

immigrant selection criteria and,
170
–71

impulse control and,
120
,
125
–31,
132
,
142

insecurity and,
50
,
123
–24

IQ and,
171

parenting among,
126
–29,
132
,
142
,
147
,
148
,
150

psychological symptoms among,
150

in Sunset Park,
170
,
171
,
172

superiority complex and,
124

tutoring and,
172
–73

upward mobility of,
171

see also
Taiwanese Americans

Chinese Exclusion Act,
207

Chinese superiority complex,
72
,
120
–23,
130
–31,
156
,
220

chip on the shoulder,
11
–12,
18
,
21
,
26
,
114
,
159
,
183

America and,
200
,
201

Jobs and,
22

Mormons and,
137

Chisholm, Shirley,
43

Cho, John,
164

Chomsky, Noam,
156

Christensen, Clayton,
32

Christianity,
60
,
98
,
182
,
184
,
207

Amish and,
180
,
181
,
183
–84

Catholicism,
35
–36,
53
,
184
,
185

Lebanese and,
112
–13

Mormonism and,
64
–65,
136

Protestantism,
8
,
31
,
53
,
136
,
184
–86,
207

Churchill, Winston,
23

Church of England,
35

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church),
5
,
30
–31,
34
–36,
134
,
136
–37,
156
–58

see also
Mormons

Chyao, Amy,
46

Cicero,
112

Cincinnati, Ohio,
176

Citigroup,
5
,
32

Clark, Kim,
32

class rigidity,
169

coal mining,
178

Coca-Cola,
36

Cohen, Steve,
52

Colorado City, Ariz.,
188

Columbus, Christopher,
122

Combs, Sean “Diddy,”
73
–74,
75

Confucian principles,
103
,
110
,
142
,
151
,
161
,
220

childhood and,
147
–48

learning and,
125
–26,
147

Congressional Budget Office,
211

Congreve, William,
87

Constitution,
2
,
62
,
204
–6,
209

Cooper, Helene,
80
,
82
–83

Covey, Stephen,
32

Crash,
92

creative destruction,
208

creativity,
146
,
223

Crittenden, Gary,
32
,
135

Cromwell, Oliver,
60

Cruz, Ted,
39

crystal meth,
175

Cuba,
69
–71

Cuban Americans,
36
n,
37
,
39
–40,
109