The Triple Package (51 page)

Newsweek International,
49

New York,
102

New Yorker,
32
,
49

New York Knicks,
32
,
103

New York Times,
46
,
53
–54,
163

Nichols, Mike,
106

Nietzsche, Friedrich,
12
,
182

Nigerian Americans,
6
–7,
9
,
42
–45,
58

parenting among,
132

superiority complex and,
81
–82

Niña,
122

9/11 attacks,
93
,
99
,
101
,
220

Nixon, Richard,
31

Nobel Prize,
7
,
54
,
159
–60,
162
,
196

nobility, English,
83

Nooyi, Indra,
49

North Korea,
17
n

Notes on Virginia
(Jefferson),
201
–2

Notorious B.I.G.,
73

Novick, Peter,
63

Obama, Barack,
219

Obama, Michelle,
164

O’Brien, John,
177

Obstacles Welcome
(de la Vega),
38

Odyssey
(Homer),
112

Oppenheimer, Robert,
55

Oxycontin,
178

Owsley County, Ky.,
169
,
175

Palestine,
156

parents,
see
family, parents

Passage from Home
(Rosenfeld),
108

Penn, Kal,
164

People Magazine,
104

PepsiCo,
49

Pérez, Lisandro,
69

Persia, Persians,
8
,
89
–91,
94
–95,
121
,
156

Pew Research Center,
6
n,
45
,
124
,
129
–30,
167
,
168

Phillips Exeter Academy,
170

Philo,
138

Phoenicians,
112

Physics Olympiad,
193

Picasso, Pablo,
223

Pixar Studios,
32

Podhoretz, Norman,
12

politics,
216
–17

Pollack, Kenneth,
90

Poor Richard’s Almanack
(Franklin),
203

Portnoy’s Complaint
(Roth),
107

poverty,
18
–19,
169

in Appalachia,
169
,
174
,
175
,
178

black,
44
,
74
–75

escape from,
167
–68,
173
;
see also
upward mobility

Jewish,
53

Powell, Colin,
43

Powers, Nicholas,
74
–75

Prager, Dennis,
104
–5,
155

PricewaterhouseCoopers,
32

Princeton University,
47
,
110
,
222

Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, The
(Weber),
8
,
184

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

Psychology of Self-Esteem, The
(Branden),
212

public-interest careers,
164
–65

Pulitzer Prize,
7
,
52
,
162

Puritans,
26
,
137
,
184
,
186
,
201
,
203
,
204
,
207

Purkayastha, Bandana,
100

Raghavan, Anita,
100

Rand, Ayn,
212

Rape of Nanjing,
158

Ravitz, Martha,
107

Raynal, Guillaume,
201

Redneck Manifesto
(Goad),
176

Reformation,
184

Reid, Harry,
31

resentment,
12
,
87
,
89

resource curse,
178

Rise of Asian Americans, The,
45

Roberts, B. H.,
66

Robinson, James,
17
n

Rollins, Kevin,
32

Romans,
112

Romney, George,
31

Romney, Mitt,
31
,
136

Roosevelt, Franklin D.,
209

Rosenfeld, Isaac,
108

Ross School of Business,
32

Roth, Philip,
64
,
107
,
108
,
195

Roubini, Nouriel,
218

Roy, Arundhati,
97

Rubio, Marco,
39
,
109

Sacks, Lord,
63

Samburg, Andy,
52

Sam’s Club,
5
,
32

Sandler, Adam,
52

Saramago, José,
61

Sawyer, Diane,
174

Sayles, Peter,
88

Schachter, Stanley,
25

Schell, Orville,
220

Schumpeter, Joseph,
208

Schwartz, Delmore,
12

scorn,
86
,
87
–104,
114

Cuban Exiles and,
87
–89

East Asian Americans and,
103
–4

Indian Americans and,
95
–102

Iranian Americans and,
89
–95

SCP Worldwide,
32

Sears, Roebuck,
5
,
32

security:

national,
220

see also
insecurity

Seidenberg, Ivan,
51

Seinfeld, Jerry,
52

self-esteem,
10
,
112
,
114
,
115
,
212
–14,
220

academic performance and,
111
–12,
213
n

of Asian Americans,
111
–12,
151
,
213
n

self-worth, external measures of,
160

Sen, Amartya,
97

Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, The
(Covey),
32

Shaheen, Bill,
57

Shaheen, Jeanne,
57

Shahs of Sunset,
55
–56,
94

Shelby, Ann,
176

Shie, Emily,
47

Shiller, Robert,
211
,
218

Shulchan Aruch,
138
,
139

Silicon Valley,
49
,
210

Silverman, Sarah,
52

Simons, Jim,
52

Skullcandy,
5
,
32

SkyWest Airlines,
32

slavery,
17
,
19
,
73
,
74
,
75
,
76
,
202
,
207

Slim, Carlos,
56

Sloan, Harry,
54

Smalls, Biggie,
73

Smith, Daniel,
105

Smith, Joseph,
30
,
64
–65,
67
,
136

social capital,
87

Social Security,
209

Socrates,
7

Solomon, Robert,
89

Somalia,
43

Soros, George,
154

Sotomayor, Sonia,
221
–22

South Korea,
17
n

Spellbound,
47

spelling bees,
47

Spinoza, Baruch,
61

stamina,
133

Stanford University,
47

status loss,
12

Cuban Exiles and,
88
–89,
92

Iranians and,
92

Steele, Claude,
78

Stein, Joel,
54

stereotype boost,
22
,
79
–80,
83
–84

stereotypes,
2
,
14

stereotype threat,
22
,
78
–80,
83
–84

blacks and,
78
,
80
,
81

Stewart, Jon,
52

Stoicism,
120
,
138

Stone, Oliver,
210

Stuyvesant High School,
169
–72

substance abuse,
150
,
215
,
216

in Appalachia,
175
,
178
,
180

success,
15
,
20
,
21
,
117
,
147
,
151
,
195
,
196

conventional,
145
,
159
–60,
196

defining,
7
,
159
–60

external measures of,
18
,
159
–60

Sudan,
43

suicide,
150

Sumner, William Graham,
59

Sun Microsystems,
49

Sunset Park,
170
,
171
,
172

Sununu, John E.,
57

Sununu, John H.,
57

superiority complex,
8
–9,
15
,
20
–22,
59
–84

America and,
203
,
207
,
209
,
211
–12,
219
–20,
225

Amish and,
181
–82

Appalachia and,
175

Asian Americans and,
13
,
173

assimilation and,
83

blacks and,
72
–78

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

Chinese Americans and,
124

Cuban Americans and,
68
–72,
156

drive and,
15
,
17
,
84

Holocaust survivors’ children and,
193

humility and,
182

impulse control and,
15
–16,
17
,
120

Indian Americans and,
95
,
97
–99,
101
–2

insecurity and,
1
,
10
,
11
–14,
15
,
17
,
114
,
124

intolerance and,
158
,
225

Iranians and,
72
,
90
–92

Jews and,
9
,
60
–64,
194
,
195
,
197

Mormons and,
8
,
16
,
64
–68,
136
,
156
–58,
186
–87

Nigerian Americans and,
81
–82

Protestantism and,
184
,
185

stereotype boost and,
22
,
79
–80

stereotype threat and,
22
,
78
–80

Stoicism and,
120

underside of,
17
,
155
–58

use of term,
59
n

Survivor,
104

Syrian Jews,
24

Tagore, Rabindranath,
96
,
98

Taitz, Sonia,
190
,
192
–93

Taiwanese Americans,
48
,
124

family honor and,
13
,
110

Talmud,
138
,
151

Tan, Amy,
149
,
160

teen pregnancy,
178
,
180

Teller, Edward,
55

Ten Commandments,
138

Theodorakis, Mikis,
61

300,
89
–90

Three Stooges,
52

Time,
49

Tocqueville, Alexis de,
27
,
85
–86,
202
–3

Tony Awards,
7
,
52

Trilling, Lionel,
152

Triple Package,
5
–27

America and,
199
–225

breaking out of,
160
–64,
196
–97

underside of,
145
–66

see also
impulse control; insecurity; superiority complex

20/20,
174

Twilight
series (Meyer),
33
,
137

Udall, Morris,
31

United States Presidential Scholars,
47

University of Michigan,
32

University of Pennsylvania,
33

Unz, Ron,
193
–94

upward mobility,
5
–6,
11
,
147
,
167
–69,
173
–74

immigrant selection criteria and,
171

Van Buren, Abigail,
53

Vance, J. D.,
177
–78

Vietnamese Americans,
7

Voltaire,
87

Von Fürstenberg, Diane,
52

Von Neumann, John,
55

Walker, Alice,
77

Wall Street,
210

Walt Disney Animation Studios,
32

Wang, Vera,
148

WASPs,
20
,
87
,
112
,
113
,
195

Watchmaker’s Daughter, The
(Taitz),
190

wealth,
169

Weber, Max,
8
,
137
,
184
,
185

Weiner, Matthew,
195

welfare,
177
,
209
,
210