Low effort thread about @RichardHanania discussion with Amy Wax yesterday, since my other thread did well. Unfortunately, I don't have video.
Rich is surprised to hear Wax say that diversity leads to free speech being quashed, but that happens all the time. Here is an example from Malaysia: thosewhocansee.blogspot.com/2018/10/so-whe…
Richard says that immigrants assimilate, and that is true for things like language and dress and stuff but he fails to understand the differences below the surface persist. Here is trust from The Culture Transplant:
Something similar can be seen with whites moving out of the South, and the subtle changes they brought:
Richard says that racial issues can be described as a white civil war about black issues. He ignores that Asians and Hispanics grow the lefts ranks in many ways ie most Hispanics support BLM
Richard says that whites who care about illegals don't live around any. Doesn't seem to be the case. Whites also flee wealthy Asian areas. theconversation.com/donald-trump-a…
Hanania brought up Jan 6th said that Wax would be extremely angry if it were done by Hispanics. I thought he had a decent point, but one thing to note is frustration over immigration likely contributed to Jan 6th.
Hanania says that we need to let all college graduates in to catch the next Jensen Huang. That would be a bad idea.
His policy also would have let America let these two fine gentlemen in:
Related to Nvidia, there are lessons to be learned looking into the chip industry in Taiwan. The role that the government played in building it up would no doubt be looked down upon by Richard. They worked to get a small number of skilled people, not every developer in India.
Some of the most people Taiwan got were high skilled immigrants to the US. In some sense, US skilled immigration policy may have helped build our competitors:
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.
1/Short thread on race and Greek life. This legal scholar recently filed some FOIA requests for public universities to get some data on mainstream frats and sororities (IFC/Panhellenic) and this is what the data looks like overall:
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: