by Amy Chua
black students at, 6, 41–42
Hass, Aaron, 189, 190, 192
Hatch, Orrin, 31, 136
Hebrew Union College, 139
Hedâyat, Sâdeq, 91
Heder, Jon, 33
Heller, Joseph, 152
Hemingway, Ernest, 162, 163
Henry V, King, 121, 122
Heritage Foundation, 209
Hinduism, 102
Hispanic and Latino Americans, 2, 6, 39, 40, 58, 68–69, 79, 87, 100, 194
Cuban, see Cuban Americans; Cuban Exiles
Cubans’ sense of distinctness from, 68–69, 156
elite schools and, 172
self-esteem of, 112
upward mobility and, 168
Hitler, Adolf, 154
Hollywood, 54
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr., 7
Holocaust, 63, 154
children of survivors of, 188–93
Hosseini, Khaled, 223
Hostetler, John, 182
House at Sugar Beach, The (Cooper), 80
House of Sand and Fog, 92
housing bubble, 217–18
Hsieh, Tony, 48, 127–28
Huang, Kai, 49
Huang, Sirena, 47
Huguenots, 20, 186
human capital, 87
humility, 181–82
Huntsman, Jon, Jr., 31
Huntsman, Jon, Sr., 32
Huntsman Corporation, 5
Icahn, Carl, 52
Igbo people, 9, 81
Iger, Robert, 51, 54
immigrant selection, 169, 170–71
impulse control, 10–11, 23, 117–44
America and, 142–44, 197, 200, 203–6, 208–9, 214–18, 221–24
Amish and, 119, 180–81
Appalachia and, 177–80
Asian Americans and, 133, 173
Chinese Americans and, 120, 125–31, 132, 142
Chinese tradition of, 220
Holocaust survivors’ children and, 189–90
Indian Americans and, 131, 132
Jews and, 20, 138–42, 197
live-in-the-moment message and, 1, 2, 10, 27, 143–44, 204, 205, 207–9, 214, 224
marshmallow test and, 23, 118, 179, 218
Mormons and, 134–37, 186–87
research on, 23, 117–19, 179
self-esteem movement and, 214
in Stoicism, 120
superiority complex and, 15–16, 17, 120
transference to other areas of life, 133–34
underside of, 17, 18, 147–51
India:
Hinduism in, 102
Institutes of Technology in, 170
social hierarchy in, 95–98
Indian Americans, 7, 9, 14, 45, 47–51, 53, 57–58, 95n–96n
and breaking out of Triple Package, 197
caste and, 9, 96–97, 99, 101
Hinduism and, 102
immigrant selection criteria and, 170–71
impulse control and, 131, 132
insecurity and, 50, 95–102
out-marrying and, 158
prejudice against, 99
superiority complex and, 95, 97–99, 101–2
individualism, 202, 203
industrial accidents, 179
innovation, 222–24
Innovator’s Dilemma, The (Christensen), 32
insecurity, 9–10, 20, 85–115, 159, 163, 182, 195
America and, 200–203, 208–12, 214, 215, 218, 220–21
in Americans, Tocqueville’s observation of, 27, 85–86, 202–3
Amish and, 182–83
Appalachia and, 175
Asian Americans and, 13, 110–11, 173
of capitalism, 202
Chinese Americans and, 50, 123–24
Cuban Exiles and, 87–89
drive and, 15, 17
family and, 86, 106–114, 115
fear and, 86, 104–6, 153–55, 195
Holocaust survivors’ children and, 190–91, 193
Indian Americans and, 50, 95–102
of individualism, 202
Iranian Americans and, 89–95
Jews and, 104–8, 109, 153–55, 195–96, 197
Lebanese Americans and, 112–14
Mormons and, 187
Protestantism and, 184–85
scorn-based, 86, 87–104, 114
self-esteem movement and, 213
studies on, 23
underside of, 17, 18, 151–55
superiority complex and, 1, 10, 11–14, 15, 17, 114, 124
welfare and, 209
Intel Science Talent Search, 46, 193
intermarriage, 20, 158, 196
International Tchaikovsky Competition, 46
IQ, 169, 171–72, 186, 194, 291n
Jews and, 194
Iran, 90, 91, 94
Iranian Americans, 7, 12, 55–58
academic achievement and, 56, 95
insecurity and, 89–95
Persian culture and, 94–95
prejudice and animus against, 92–93
status and, 92, 93–94
Iranian superiority complex, 72, 90–92
Islamic Revolution, 92, 93
Israel, 154, 195
Ivy League, 7, 41, 47–48, 170
Jackson, Jesse, 77
Jackson, Samuel L., 77
Jacobs, Joseph L., 112–14
Jamaica, 6, 43
James, Henry, 202
James, Josh, 31
James, William, 212–13
Japan:
China and, 121, 122, 123, 158
imperial, 219
Japanese Americans, 57
family honor and, 110
Jazz Singer, The, 152–53
Jefferson, Thomas, 200, 201–2, 203, 205, 206, 208
Jeffs, Rulon, 34
Jennings, Ken, 33
Jeopardy!, 33
JetBlue, 5, 31, 137
“Jewish Genius” (Murray), 63
Jews, 7, 17n, 20, 50, 51–55, 57–58, 72, 78, 88, 193–97
academic achievement and, 13, 20, 24–26, 193–96
anti-Semitism and, 12, 15, 54–55, 61, 138, 141–42, 154, 194n
Ashkenazi, 194n
authority questioned by, 151, 152
bar and bat mitzvahs of, 139, 142
chip on the shoulder and, 12
Disraeli on, 15
family and parenting among, 106–8, 109, 140–41, 142, 151–53
Holocaust and, see Holocaust
impulse control and, 20, 138–42, 197
income of, 7–8, 53
insecurity and, 104–8, 109, 153–55, 195–96, 197
IQ and, 194
Israel and, 154, 195
music practice and, 141, 161
out-marrying and, 158, 196
poverty and, 53
Sabbath and, 139–40
superiority complex and, 9, 60–64, 194, 195, 197
Syrian, 24
Triple Package pathologies of, 151–55
Jindal, Bobby, 49
Jobs, Steve, 22, 223
Jordan, Michael, 117
Judaism, 62, 64, 138, 151
orthodox, 139, 142
Reform, 139
Juilliard School of Music, 46, 127, 129
Jung, Andrea, 123
Kafka, Franz, 105, 119–20
Kahn, Louis, 53
Kaling, Mindy, 164
Kant, Immanuel, 138, 142
Kazin, Alfred, 12, 13
Keister, Lisa, 33
Kellogg, 38
Kennedy, Paul, 123
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Khosla, Vinod, 49
Kimball, Spencer, 25
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 77, 78
Kiryas Joel, 26
Kleiner Perkins, 49
Kodak, 32
Koh, Jennifer, 47
Korean Americans, 7
academic achievement and, 13, 110, 131
family honor and, 110
parenting among, 131, 132
Kovner, Bruce, 52
Krugman, Paul, 54
Kwon, Yul, 104
Lahiri, Jhumpa, 98
Lala, Nupur, 47
Landers, Ann, 53
Latino Americans, see Hispanic and Latino Americans
Lauren, Ralph, 51
Lebanese Americans, 7, 20, 55–58
insecurity and, 112–14
Lebanon, 113
Lee, Ang, 160–64
Lee, Jennifer, 79
Lee, Noah, 47
Lee, Spike, 77, 162
Leonidas I, 89
Lewis, Jerry, 52
Lewis and Clark expedition, 201
Li, Jin, 147
liberal principles, 9, 11
Liberia, 6, 80, 82
Liebeskind, Daniel, 53
Lim, Phillip, 148
Lin, Alfred, 49
Lin, Jeremy, 103, 124–25, 164
Lord & Taylor, 32
Los Angeles, Calif., 171
Los Angeles Times, 54
Louie, Vivian, 110, 128, 129
Lufthansa, 32
Lynton, Michael, 54
Madison, James, 206
Madison Square Garden, 5, 32, 137
Mad Men, 195
Madoff, Bernie, 165
Mailer, Norman, 12, 163
Majd, Hooman, 90–91
Malcolm X, 43, 77
Mao Zedong, 123
Marielitos, 36n, 40
Maronites, 112–13
marriage out of the group, 20, 158, 196
Marriott, J. W., 31–32
Marriott International, 5, 32
Marriott School of Management, 33
Marshall, Thurgood, 77
marshmallow test, 23, 118, 179, 218
Martin County sludge spill, 179
Marx Brothers, 52
Massad, Alex, 113–14
Massey, Douglas, 41
Math Olympiad, 193
Mauss, Armand, 136–37
May, Elaine, 106
Mehta, Ved, 97
Meier, Richard, 53
Melville, Herman, 201
Mendelssohn, Felix, 61
Mendelssohn, Moses, 61
Mendes, Eva, 39
Menendez, Robert, 39
methamphetamine addiction, 175
Mexican Americans, 170, 207
Meyer, Barry, 54
Meyer, Stephenie (author of Twilight series), 33, 137
Miami, Fla., 6, 37, 39, 71, 88
Midler, Bette, 52
millennials, 216
Miller, Arthur, 108
Min, Anchee, 125
mining, 178
Mischel, Walter, 118
Miss Manners, 53
Mobasher, Mohsen, 93
Mobil Oil, 114
Mondrian, Piet, 223
Mongols, 121
Montgomery Ward, 114
Moonves, Leslie, 54
Mormons, 5, 14, 30–36, 52, 105, 169, 181, 186–88
afterlife and, 66
Book of Mormon and, 25, 30
and breaking out of Triple Package, 197
Christianity and, 64–65, 136
education and, 25
Family Home Evening and, 187
fundamentalist, 34–35, 188
impulse control and, 134–37, 186–87
insecurity and, 187
LDS Church, 5, 30–31, 34–36, 134, 136–37, 156–58
missions of, 16, 66, 134–35, 158, 186, 187
morality and, 66–67
original sin rejected by, 66
persecution of, 64, 136
polygamy and, 67, 136, 187, 188
separatist Utah phase of, 187
superiority complex and, 8, 16, 64–68, 136, 156–58, 186–87
women’s status among, 156–58
Word of Wisdom and, 187, 188
Morrison, Toni, 77, 156
Mosaic law, 138
Movado Group, 38
Mukherjee, Siddhartha, 49–50, 97
Murray, Charles, 63
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban, 71
musical training:
Asian Americans and, 46–47, 126–28, 129, 164
Jews and, 141, 161
My Beloved World (Sotomayor), 221
NAACP Legal Defense Fund, 172
Naked and the Dead, The (Mailer), 163
Napoleon Dynamite, 33
narcissism, 213n, 216
national security, 220
National Study of Youth and Religion, 134
Native Americans, 207
Nazi Germany, 9, 63, 189, 219
see also Holocaust
Neeleman, David, 31, 137
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 96
New Cubans, 36n, 40
Newsweek International, 49
New York, 102
New Yorker, 32, 49
New York Knicks, 32, 103
New York Times, 46, 53–54, 163
Nichols, Mike, 106
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 12, 182
Nigerian Americans, 6–7, 9, 42–45, 58
parenting among, 132
superiority complex and, 81–82
Niña, 122
9/11 attacks, 93, 99, 101, 220
Nixon, Richard, 31
Nobel Prize, 7, 54, 159–60, 162, 196
nobility, English, 83
Nooyi, Indra, 49
North Korea, 17n
Notes on Virginia (Jefferson), 201–2
Notorious B.I.G., 73
Novick, Peter, 63
Obama, Barack, 219
Obama, Michelle, 164
O’Brien, John, 177
Obstacles Welcome (de la Vega), 38
Odyssey (Homer), 112
Oppenheimer, Robert, 55
Oxycontin, 178
Owsley County, Ky., 169, 175
Palestine, 156
parents, see family, parents
Passage from Home (Rosenfeld), 108
Penn, Kal, 164
People Magazine, 104
PepsiCo, 49
Pérez, Lisandro, 69
Persia, Persians, 8, 89–91, 94–95, 121, 156
Pew Research Center, 6n, 45, 124, 129–30, 167, 168
Phillips Exeter Academy, 170
Philo, 138
Phoenicians, 112
Physics Olympiad, 193
Picasso, Pablo, 223
Pixar Studios, 32
Podhoretz, Norman, 12
politics, 216–17
Pollack, Kenneth, 90
Poor Richard’s Almanack (Franklin), 203
Portnoy’s Complaint (Roth), 107
poverty, 18–19, 169
in Appalachia, 169, 174, 175, 178
black, 44, 74–75
escape from, 167–68, 173; see also upward mobility
Jewish, 53
Powell, Colin, 43
Powers, Nicholas, 74–75
Prager, Dennis, 104–5, 155
PricewaterhouseCoopers, 32
Princeton University, 47, 110, 222
Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, The (Weber), 8, 184
Protestants, 8, 31, 53,
136, 184–86, 207
Psychology of Self-Esteem, The (Branden), 212
public-interest careers, 164–65
Pulitzer Prize, 7, 52, 162
Puritans, 26, 137, 184, 186, 201, 203, 204, 207
Purkayastha, Bandana, 100
Raghavan, Anita, 100
Rand, Ayn, 212
Rape of Nanjing, 158
Ravitz, Martha, 107
Raynal, Guillaume, 201
Redneck Manifesto (Goad), 176
Reformation, 184
Reid, Harry, 31
resentment, 12, 87, 89
resource curse, 178
Rise of Asian Americans, The, 45
Roberts, B. H., 66
Robinson, James, 17n
Rollins, Kevin, 32
Romans, 112
Romney, George, 31
Romney, Mitt, 31, 136
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 209
Rosenfeld, Isaac, 108
Ross School of Business, 32
Roth, Philip, 64, 107, 108, 195
Roubini, Nouriel, 218
Roy, Arundhati, 97
Rubio, Marco, 39, 109
Sacks, Lord, 63
Samburg, Andy, 52
Sam’s Club, 5, 32
Sandler, Adam, 52
Saramago, José, 61
Sawyer, Diane, 174
Sayles, Peter, 88
Schachter, Stanley, 25
Schell, Orville, 220
Schumpeter, Joseph, 208
Schwartz, Delmore, 12
scorn, 86, 87–104, 114
Cuban Exiles and, 87–89
East Asian Americans and, 103–4
Indian Americans and, 95–102
Iranian Americans and, 89–95
SCP Worldwide, 32
Sears, Roebuck, 5, 32
security:
national, 220
see also insecurity
Seidenberg, Ivan, 51
Seinfeld, Jerry, 52
self-esteem, 10, 112, 114, 115, 212–14, 220
academic performance and, 111–12, 213n
of Asian Americans, 111–12, 151, 213n
self-worth, external measures of, 160
Sen, Amartya, 97
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, The (Covey), 32
Shaheen, Bill, 57
Shaheen, Jeanne, 57
Shahs of Sunset, 55–56, 94
Shelby, Ann, 176
Shie, Emily, 47
Shiller, Robert, 211, 218
Shulchan Aruch, 138, 139
Silicon Valley, 49, 210
Silverman, Sarah, 52
Simons, Jim, 52
Skullcandy, 5, 32
SkyWest Airlines, 32
slavery, 17, 19, 73, 74, 75, 76, 202, 207
Slim, Carlos, 56
Sloan, Harry, 54
Smalls, Biggie, 73
Smith, Daniel, 105
Smith, Joseph, 30, 64–65, 67, 136
social capital, 87
Social Security, 209
Socrates, 7
Solomon, Robert, 89
Somalia, 43
Soros, George, 154