The Triple Package

The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America is a book published in 2014 by two professors at Yale Law School, Jed Rubenfeld and his wife, Amy Chua, who is also the author of the 2011 international bestseller, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.

According to the preface, the authors find that "certain groups do much better in America than others—as measured by income, occupational status, test scores, and so on— [which] is difficult to talk about. In large part this is because the topic feels racially charged." Nevertheless, the book attempts to debunk racial stereotypes by focusing on three "cultural traits" that attribute to success in the United States.

Following her widespread fame with Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother in 2011, Chua wrote this book with her husband Rubenfeld after observing a more prevalent trend of students from specific groups achieving better academic results than the rest. For example, a striking demographic pattern that more Mormon students in Yale are emerging than a couple years ago. According to an interview conducted by Harry Kreisler from the Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley, the authors explained such phenomenon prompted them to “look further into how those groups perform outside of school, and come to a conclusion that for some reasons, those groups have a tendency to experience most upward social mobility than others.”

Before its publication, The Triple Package has already captivated the attention from the general public because of its highly controversial assertion that though with tough economy, shrinking opportunity, and rising inequality, certain communities are outperforming the national average, experiencing upward mobility at dramatically high rate, and also educational attainment, and that this success has to do with certain inherent characteristics belonging to these cultural groups, causing this book to be “sure to garner just as much (if not more) controversy as her first book did.”

The central argument of the book is that the cultural groups that are "starkly outperforming" the rest in America possess three distinct traits. These virtues are the presence of a superiority complex, the simultaneous existence of a sense of insecurity, and a marked capacity for impulse control.

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