While Amy Chua is, for better or worse, known primarily as the Chinese lady who wrote a book about being mean to her kids, she has actually been studying overperforming minority groups for quite some time. In her book World on Fire, for example, she explained how imposing free markets can create ethnic conflict by giving disproportionate economic power to small-but-productive groups. This is why it's not necessarily problematic that The Triple Package relies largely on narrative and anecdote: It's co-written by someone whose impressions on this topic deserve a certain amount of deference.
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