Authors Amy Chua & Jed Rubenfeld explain their theory, 'The Triple Package'

Author Amy Chua believes that secret to success is embedded in our cultural and ethnic backgrounds. The woman who championed the strictest of strict upbringing for children with the Tiger Mom approach has created more unbelievers with her theories on why people from some particular cultural backgrounds seem destined for success.

"What's interesting about a lot of these groups is their sense of exceptionalism. In the Asian case it's an exceptionality based on we're better at working hard."Amy Chua, co-author of

If you follow the logic of the authors of The Triple Package, elementary school teachers might be able to predict with some accuracy which students will flourish -- just by knowing their cultural backgrounds. Mormon kids, Jewish kids, Asian kids, Nigerian kids -for example- can seem almost predestined for economic success.

Obviously, this is provocative and many readers are provoked.

The authors of The Triple Package are Amy Chua, a Yale law professor, best known for her previous book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. It was equally provocative -- and it sold a lot of copies. It described how she raised her daughters in a strict, traditional and so-called "Chinese" way. Amy Chua's co-author this time around is her husband, also a law professor at Yale, Jed Rubenfeld

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• What Drives Success? By Amy Chua & Jed Rubenfeld -- The New York Times

Anna Maria Tremonti interviewed both authors, and then ran their ideas past Philip Kasinitz, a professor of Sociology at the Graduate Centre and Hunter College at the City University of New York and co-author of Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age. This segment first aired on The Current in February.

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This segment was produced by The Current's Kristin Nelson.

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