'Tiger Mom' is back to tell us that Mormons and Cuban exiles are just better than the rest of us

If you had the Internet in 2011, you might remember something called a "Tiger Mom." Essentially, Amy Chua wrote a book about how Chinese mothers are better mothers because they're ruthless and backed it up with the irrefutable evidence that her daughter got into Ivy League schools.

Now, Chua—the original, self-proclaimed "Tiger Mom"—is back with a new book to remind us all how inadequate we are. She wrote The Triple Package with her husband, Jeb Rubenfeld, positing that there are eight groups of people that are just better than everyone else:

Jewish

Indian

Chinese

Iranian

Lebanese-Americans

Nigerians

Cuban exiles

Mormons

These groups — "cultural," mind you, never "ethnic" or "racial" or "religious" — all possess, in the authors' estimation, three qualities that they've identified as guarantors of wealth and power: superiority, insecurity and impulse control.

"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," the authors write. "In large part, this is because the topic feels so racially charged."

And so begins their cat-and-mouse polemic, in which they claim they're courageously agitating for a greater good: the revival of America itself as a "Triple Package Culture." It's a series of shock-arguments wrapped in self-help tropes, and it's meant to do what racist arguments do: scare people.

If you've got nothing better to do, cruise on over to The New York Post to read the full review of Chua's new book. Or, if you hate yourself enough to devote an entire afternoon to absorbing the maniacle ramblings of a person who taking two steps away from the center of the spectrum of reason in an effort to remain culturally relevant, read the book, I guess. [NYPost]