Book Triple package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America
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It's not the first time that Amy Chua, a professor at Yale Law School and the daughter of Chinese immigrants, has challenged the prevailing approach to child-rearing in the United States. This time, together with her husband, Professor Jed Rubenfeld, she explored the impact of parenting methods and the values of the communities in which children grow up on their later success in life. The couple came to the conclusion that all the most successful communities in America are characterised by a combination of three factors, which the authors called the Three Forces: a sense of superiority, threat, and impulse control. These Three Forces are inherent in first-generation immigrants, religious and ethnic minorities who, due to their life circumstances and cultural characteristics, achieve exceptional success and are elected to the highest levels of society. At the same time, the authors make a reservation that the concept of success they use in the study is mundane, measurable, and ultimately this success is not exhaustive and final, and the Three Forces do not promise happiness and harmony.
About the book:
«Chua and Rubenfeld's scandalous new take on the success of The Three Powers has already infuriated the public, even those who admit they haven't read the book yet, but have only heard how shocking it is.
Financial Times
«A Gladwellian work of sociology, and again in the same cultural minefield as Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mama.
The New York Times
Fun fact:
The author of the hotly debated US bestseller Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis), J.D. Vance calls Amy Chua the "godmother" of Appalachian books: Vance was her student at Yale University, and it was Chua who persuaded him to write an autobiography based on a research project about the economic mobility of his region. According to Vance, she "gave him the best advice I've ever received". The Appalachian example is also the basis for one of the chapters in The Three Pillars.