Race and Culture
by Thomas Sowell · first published 1992
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This seminal book by one of our leading thinkers on race issues will forever change our views on race and ethnicity, culture, and the explosive policy issues that revolve around them, not only in contemporary America but in societies around the world and down through history. Race and Culture brings together more than a decade of research, encompassing dozens of ethnic groups in scores of countries around the world, to challenge most of the fundamental assumptions underlying the whole spectrum of "social science" beliefs and government policies dealing with racial and ethnic minorities. Its
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Ha. I didn't know that. Sowell used to write very well on race and culture stuff eg https://www.amazon.co.uk/Race-Culture-Sowell/dp/0465067972 He could get away with saying things that would otherwise be regarded as politically incorrect as he is black himself. It's a shame…
on “How did Europe become the richest part of the world?” ↗…groupthink, but you know how we combat that – we fund public education. The way to combat groupthink in the long term is to advance groups. One interesting thing that Thomas Sowell brings up in his book Race and Culture, is that Russians, Poles, and Italians started out having IQ score disparities as large as those of US black communities, but caught up over the time span of the 1st half of the 20th century. By 1950,…
on “We Are At War For A Free And Open Internet” ↗…compete with them, mass expulsions, confiscations, and mob violence..." [1] The prevalence of the idea that "shareholders are stealing" seems like an example of "the political mobilization of envy." [1] Race and Culture: A World View, by Thomas Sowell - (He was talking about the Tamils in Sri Lanka, the Germans in Russia... throughout history, not just current events.)
on “The current layoffs were orchestrated by hedge funds” ↗