From Medill Reports:
Author Amy Chua doubled down on the theories of her controversial new book “The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America,” co-written with her husband Jed Rubenfeld…One of Chua’s most vocal critics has been Jennifer Lee, a University of California, Irvine sociologist, who penned an op-ed discussing how success should be measured in terms of not just a person's achievements as an adult but where they have come from, often from low-income backgrounds. Lee’s study with her colleague Min Zhou, a sociologist at University of California, Los Angeles, revealed that Mexican-Americans were most successful immigrant group in Los Angeles measuring success as “progress from generation to generation.”

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