1/Whites have many grievances when poorly performing minorities move in, but there is less discussion about the effects of model minorities. @herandrews posted some excepts from this book about white to Asian demographic change which lead me to read it. amazon.com/Trespassers-As…
2/ The book tracks the story of Fremont CA, a town in the SF Bay Area, that very rapidly transformed from White to Asian:
3/Fremont was seen as a place where Asians could combine the best of Asia and America rather than simply recreating Asia:
4/ One Asian describe growing up there while it was still white, and eating pizza and meatloaf. In a few decades the shoe would be on the other foot:
5/ Early Silicon Valley was very white:
6/ The creation of H1B visas and the dotcom boom brought many immigrants to the area:
7/ One large change was the change in school environment. The book focuses on Mission San Jose High School which went from nearly 80% white in the late 80s to less than 5% white now: schooldigger.com/go/CA/schools/…
8/ Asian prefer an intense math and science education, while whites wanted a less competitive more balanced education:
9/ In the 80s there were so many blond haired blue eyed kids, it was commonly referred to as little Scandinavia:
10/ The current demographics of the school preferred flashier cars:
11/ Many people want to go to the school but don't live within the boundaries. 34% of students said they knew someone who attended illegally:
12/ Many white families in the area felt that the community was getting worse as the area was getting more expensive:
13/ The previous Mission San Jose was a wild party school, with a top ranked football team. These days priorities have shifted:
14/ Many of the students are stressed out. One student passed out from stress after he got a B:
15/ Most of the students thought that race played an important role in social relations at the school. Indians were sometimes stereotyped as more white. Genetic similarity theory?
16/ One white girl in the student newspaper wrote that she was part of the new oppressed minority:
17/Many white families were pretty explicitly they were moving to white areas in the north so their kids could go to whiter schools:
18/ Many Asians also left because they wanted to send their kids to school at a more normal American high school:
19/Another point of contention was the Asian malls that were popping up. This passage describes a typical Asian mall:
20/ Many non Asians object to these malls as exclusionary:
21/ The more white city leadership was instead trying to attract major chains and fancy restaurants:
22/ City leadership worried that one reason they were unable to attract these businesses is because they didn't they could sell well to Asians:
23/ Asians claimed that they weren't the prime customers for those businesses, and the city officials were trying to cater to white professionals and not the local community:
24/ Another community conflict that broke down on racial lines was over whether people could rebuild their older ranch house to larger mcmansion style houses:
25/ White people saw these new large house as obscene displays of wealth. Asians wanted large homes to house their families
26/ Asian people prefer more modern homes because, they don't like doing maintenance
27/ Ironically, the larger homes that Asians prefer are based on European aesthetics:
28/Another point of contention was privacy issues:
29/ The Asians who were rebuilding their homes seemed to value being outside less than the current white residents:
30/ Seems to confirm what AE said about whites being most interested in the outdoors: unz.com/anepigone/cons…
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1/ Thread looking at paper from 2014 from dissecting claims of a labor shortage. This data is all old at this point but we see similar narratives today. On one side people claiming a labor shortage and on the other side, college graduates claiming they can't get jobs.
2/ The idea that America is falling behind in skills goes back a long time.
Some excerpts from WSJ article about the 10 million population cap referendum in Switzerland. The journal admits the historic wave of immigration to the West hasn't solved economic problems:
Economics professor from Canada admits that immigration hasn't solved Canada's problems.
Economic output per worker has stagnated across some of the countries that have accepted the most immigrants.
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2/ The IFC fraternities they looked at were slightly less white at around 72%. Everywhere greeks life was at least 15% whiter than the university population as a whole.
3/ Comparison between % of undergrads who are black vs panhellenic sororities. At the schools that turned over chapter level data almost half of chapters had no black members.
1/ Short thread. The WSJ asked business historians to rank the greatest entrepreneurs and business leaders in American history. Here are the racial demographics: