tell your mom is back she and her husband have written a book where they
are offering advice about american success and the three qualities that are
necessary to be successful in the United States the name in the book is called
the triple package and they talk about how I
in order to be successful you need to have three things the superiority
complex
insecurity and impulse control now the reason why people are talking about this
book right now is because it seems to be racially charged or at least quarterly
charged
because she is saying that there are certain cultures their superior than
others she has this long list are they have this long list I want to tell you
which group are people they considered the most successful they say Nigerians
jus Chinese Indians iranians Lebanese Americans
cuban exiles and Mormons tend to be more successful than
everyone else and it's because they have those
that triple package that she's referring to UK
anybody else think triple pack to sell really dirty
okay yeah I'll okay I was probably not an accident they have a really
a pretty good description of it on the publisher site
and I i thought that what the road kinda gives you a better sense of where
they're coming from
they say americans are taught that everyone is equal that no group is
superior to another but remarkably
all %uh America's most successful groups believe even if they don't say so loud
that their exceptional chosen superior in some way
UK so what's really interesting they start off with that they continue
America top it's all this team feeling good about yourself
is the key to a successful life but in all America's most successful group
people tend to feel insecure inadequate
and they have to prove themselves okay so is anybody
missing the irony there ok come up how do they were right that
so the I get a break that down in two different ways yes evolved
yeah every all school ethnicity that comes tonight as the nigerians the
Chinese India's think that they're the best
the church thing to do the best the Greeks think they're the best are many
as they did about as everybody thinks
bucket but higher but Mike butter Singapore greeks
right and the greasy other board turks right but you're poor everyone because
your the best for the best
right but they're not all on the list so that's
dominant have itself the number two had committed
like they feel superior teams are so insecure
if there's a superior why they so insecure that absolutely right they
merely contradict themselves
so and and by the way making the argument that self-esteem is actually
and negative when it comes to becoming successful with
absolutely ridiculous if you have self-esteem if you are
so insecure I mean the most unsuccessful people I've met
are the most insecure you have to have a certain degree of confidence and of
course
that's completely different from arrogance right you have to be willing
to learn your you have to be willing to take constructive criticism that's how
you improve
but the thing I like all you need to be super insecure no insecurity leads to
really really bad behavior
okay so let's go further here said ceded to
to me the most telling the ethnicity they put on their list or the cultural
group whatever they want to call it
keep 9000 you been exiles exactly here to cuba is a cube are idiots
right by the cuban exiles they're geniuses no you dumbass
if the people who buy would become here it's a self-selected group
right so all these people are in a sense exiles like the
that if they have in some way chosen to leave their country so you think the
Niger is a measure your genius is there any is an hour
in Iran are geniuses and that just
no look the for small the idea that all the different countries have different
eldest levels a solo stupid it right
but this example yes the Nigerians that came here the cubans that came here
et cetera showed willpower or
extra effort big all the different things that require
that actually lead to success yeah not your stupid categories right
self-selected up their assaults like that ended more iranians happen to come
here more Chinese happen to come here
et cetera right so that doesn't mean that the Chinese in the Iranians are
smarter
likes I give you of my ethnic Rohingya K
like the church to go to Germany don't do as well socio-economic it was like
america actually do great
there among the top ethnicities in breakdowns in
in socioeconomic status why the turks in germany are stupid and the ones in
America or smart
no because it's really easy to go to Germany so what I've heard Turks have
not gotten a good education
find their way to Germany to get who you know jobs that
don't require a lot of Education so there that socioeconomic group right
and the people atm managed to you following america it's harder to get
america to get to america
or acquires often has more education to come to America
are self-selected group how can the law professor not understand that also how
unbelievably
you know a new ring is that yeah look we haven't read her entire book right so we
have to put that out there however it would
I think it would be negligent for her to make these types of argument
if she doesn't address issues like institutional racism
the fact that people that are born into a certain a socioeconomic status
in the United States have a really hard time finding up that economic latter
especially in times like these
when the economy is a disaster would win the job market is a disaster
those are all factors that you have to come but have to come into play
and many sociologists that have been interviewed about this book
have made the argument that you note this really will live on
anecdotal evidence it's not really scientific and
in a lot of ways it's irresponsible to write this kinda stuff sup
of course it is look it i've seen that Nigerians are doing well
in this country you know why cuz your new immigrants the new immigrant groups
always do because they're all angry
you think the Nigerians are ethnically or culturally smarter than the canyons
and the lebanese are clearly better than the syrians
how could you possibly think that pates
its are not believable like for example or her whatever three triple packages
is impulse control yet when you cross that border between
Lebanon and Syria who that impulse control goes out the window
yeah and what do you think word and so why do you think you were
put Niger is at the top the list I know I know it's not a racial list
so that's a so Niger sure Nigerians long would use the Chinese
Polo Cup she's Asian and her husband is jewishness -2 in three
well as a couple others in her what I guess is that can be in
you know thing it is they happen to be among the superior race is not as the
while coincidence right yeah
an NBA will make the argument that this is not about race this is about culture
so I'm that's what look at least 18 argument
that for example jus emphasize education
okay as that would be a perfect leave good are you with Chinese emphasize
education in America
right and you know you can I make an argument that they do back in China as
well
so those are interesting arguments right to say that
you got only a certain number of cultural
or ethnic group and these are the three things that matter
misery did gil is argument