Who Will Survive in America? (List)

[The Nigerian]

Okay so in this article posted by Buisiness Insider the author of the book Tiger Moms made a list of ethnic groups that are about to run this country. Guess who tops the list? Here's the article:

You may remember Amy Chua, a Yale law professor, as the "Tiger Mom" who argued that running a severely strict household was the key to raising successful children.

Now she and husband Jed Rubenfeld are out with an even more controversial book about success and parenting, "The Triple Package."

According to a review by Maureen Callahan in the New York Post, the pair have "gathered some specious stats and anecdotal evidence to argue that some groups are just superior to others and everyone else is contributing to the downfall of America."

The authors write:

That certain groups do much better in America than others — as measured by income, occupational status, test scores, and so on — is difficult to talk about. In large part, this is because the topic feels so racially charged.

Here is their list:

• Nigerians
• Jews
• Chinese
• Indians
• Iranians
• Lebanese-Americans
• Cuban exiles
• Mormons

Here's a link to the article: http://www.businessinsider.com/tiger-mom-culture-group-list-2014-1

 

[I.AM.PIFF]

Thay don't include you in it you fakkit

 

[Theraflu]

Hmmmm. All those group practise the 'tiger' parenting.

Not sure that automatically makes them superior though

 

[The Nigerian]

Just read that NY Post article. They went real deep on y'all:

On to the distinguishing factors that make these eight groups the best in America:

1. A superiority complex
Any group that collectively believes they are inherently better than any other, say the authors, has an advantage. They do not note that this is perhaps humanity’s oldest and ugliest flaw, the bottom-line cause of wars and genocide. In their estimation, it’s not nearly common enough in America, where “the Superiority Complex . . . is antithetical to mainstream liberal thinking . . . the stuff of racism, colonialism, imperialism, Nazism.” This way of thinking, they write, has been a big boon to Mormons and Jews, though they also fail to note that believing in the superiority of a belief system is the driving force behind almost all organized religion. (Except the Amish. The authors freely note that the Amish are losers for this very reason.)

2. Insecurity
Here are the authors sounding most like Malcolm Gladwell: Posit something, make a solid case for it, then immediately refute it with equal fervor. The result: Readers are so confused that they can only conclude that this book is so much smarter than they are.

The authors are very impressed with their boldness in juxtaposing insecurity with superiority. “That insecurity should be a critical lever of success is another anathema, flouting the entire orthodoxy of contemporary popular and therapeutic psychology,” they write. In fact, insecurity has long been known as a prime motivator among actors, artists, CEOs, despots. “Imposter syndrome,” the term used to describe highly successful individuals who believe, deep down, they are frauds, was identified back in 1978.

“Note that there’s a deep tension between insecurity and a superiority complex,” the authors continue. “It’s odd to think of people being simultaneously insecure but also convinced of their divine election or superiority.” Really? Just ask anyone who’s ever met a narcissist, or read a profile of A-Rod.

3. Impulse Control
Yet another hallmark of self-help, impulse control is considered to be a key factor in personal success — the ability to delay instant gratification in the service of a greater goal. But this isn’t really what the authors have in mind: “As we’ll use the term,” they write, “impulse control refers to the ability to resist temptation, especially the temptation to give up in the face of hardship or quit instead of persevering at a difficult task.”

You know who’s bad at this? Americans not among their eight groups. “Because all three elements of the Triple Package run so counter to modern American culture, it makes sense that America’s successful groups are all outsiders in one way or another,” they write. “Paradoxically, in modern America, a group has an edge if it doesn’t buy into — or hasn’t yet bought into — mainstream, post-1960s, liberal American principles.”

As curious as the groups that Chua and Rubenfeld elevate are the absence of ones they denigrate. Aside from the Amish (not big book-buyers), the only other group the authors take aim at are the Appalachian poor, noting, without irony, that “it’s far more socially acceptable today to insult and look down on ‘white trash’ than the poor of any other racial group.’”

As for why African-Americans don’t make the list, the authors believe that the Civil Rights Movement took away any hope for a superiority narrative, and so the black community is screwed — even as they cite Mitt Romney’s loss to Barack Obama as evidence of Mormon ascendancy.

“In this paradoxical sense, equality isn’t fair to African-Americans,” they write. “Superiority is the one narrative that America has relentlessly denied or ground out of its black population.”

Nigerian immigrants, they argue, are bolstered by the belief that they are better than other West Africans — much as the Lebanese believe, as descendants of Phoenicians, that they are superior, or that the Chinese believe that their 5,000-year-old civilization makes them superior. But feeling superior to other nations, races or religions is nothing more than that — a feeling.

 

[mtu wa chuma]

Why does the nigerian still present himself on this forum as some sort of success when pretty much everyone knows dude's a loser?

 

[The Nigerian]

Why does the nigerian still present himself on this forum as some sort of success when pretty much everyone knows dude's a loser?

 

[mtu wa chuma]

Dude, why would i be mad? I'm just trying to find out why you keep trying to portray this image of a successful corporate negro when we all know you aint living that life. no hate here.

 

[The Nigerian]

Dude, why would i be mad? I'm just trying to find out why you keep trying to portray this image of a successful corporate negro when we all know you aint living that life. no hate here.

Corporate?

You mean like, happy hours, water cooler chats and President's Club trips?

You mean, meaningless etched glass awards in the cubicle, endless self-reporting, non transferable skills and answering to middle management?

Hahahaha!

Okay, whatever you say, buddy!

At the end of the day:

 

[Elle Driver]

I agree with her point about African Americans.

 

[mtu wa chuma]

Corporate?

You mean like, happy hours, water cooler chats and President's Club trips?

You mean, meaningless etched glass awards in the cubicle, endless self-reporting, non transferable skills and answering to middle management?

Hahahaha!

Okay, whatever you say, buddy!

At the end of the day:

Oh i forgot, you're now a budding entrepreneur on the verge of making billions.

 

[The Nigerian]

Oh i forgot, you're now a budding entrepreneur on the verge of making billions.

Hey man, that's what they said in the news.

I mean, you can imagine that I'm some sort of failure or whatever makes you feel better but we all know that you're just trolling.

 

[606onit]

Yea, Nigerians really feel good about themselves.

They're just as lost as their kidnapped American counterpart (maybe even moreso )

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

The real question is who goin survive off that Molly watr

 

[The Nigerian]

Yea, Nigerians really feel good about themselves.

They're just as lost as their kidnapped American counterpart (maybe even moreso )

Uh... I think you're missing the point of the article, breh...

 

[BuyandSave]

Cool thread - one star/neg rep just because it's you.