Topic > The Superiority Complex: Suketu Mehta - 550

In his article, The Superiority Complex, Mehta focuses his analysis on Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld's book, The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and the fall of cultural groups in America. Suketu Mehta is the author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found and an instructor at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. Mehta compares this book to many others written in previous years such as Madison's Passing of the Great Race (1916) and Samuel Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations (2004) and highlights the similarity with which it portrays racism but has been veiled with terms such as culture , ethnicity and religion. Mehta discusses the various phases of racism in America; how it has evolved over time to become a norm and an accepted lifestyle. Chua and Rubenfeld try to justify their book as non-racial by claiming that it is an ethnic issue and going even further, holding up Nigerians and Liberian-Africans as examples of minority excellence, but Mehta is quick to discredit them for their failure in recognizing it. Africans are a...