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- Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have revealed some surprising facts about American society.
- The country was comforted by the solidarity and civic behavior of Texas, where hundreds of volunteers used their own boats to rescue thousands of people from flooded areas.
Most of those rescuers were white men, a group vilified across university campuses, by the liberal media, feminist culture, and ethnic communities. - On the other hand the media did its best to abstain from reporting on many cases of looting in Texas, Florida and the Caribbean because the perpetrators were people of color. The few media who posted videos of looters were berated for being insensitive to minorities.
- In the Caribbean island of St Marteen, also greatly affected by Hurricane Irma, blacks armed with machetes threatened people and looted anything they could get their hands on, particularly at tourist resorts.
- The media feels discomfort at these cultural expressions, and so they choose to self-censor.
- In the meantime the left continues to denigrate traditional western values, white people - particularly white men - and the culture that western civilization has generated.
- The question that these critics never answer is what is their model for a better America. Is there any country in Africa, Asia, or Latin America that would represent their high ideals for democracy, tolerance, prosperity, respect for the law, and relative peace between different religious and racial groups?
- Or are they so driven by hate that they want to destroy our society just for the sake of it?
- Behind cultural differences there are two factors at work that influence each other: institutions and genetics. Institutions do shape the way we think and behave, and this in turn affects genetics.
- Different cultures have evolved separately over thousands of years, and thus they have developed their own genetic differences. These differences are being identified by the rapid advances in genomics in the past 20 years or so.
- There is a genetic difference for degrees in our propensity for aggression, for example, which would explain why some cultures are quicker to anger than others. This gene has been named and identified.
- For more on the role of ongoing human evolution read "The 10,000 Year Explosion" by Cochran and Happending, and "A Troublesome Inheritance" by Nicholas Wade. Both books document the known facts about genetic differences caused by ancient and ongoing human evolution. The scientific evidence is irrefutable. Read article on this subject by author Nicholas Wade further down this page.
- Two US academics just published a short article on the loss of traditional values, and how this loss is undermining minorities - the same minorities, by the way, that are agitating for the collapse of American society and its values.
- For daring to publish that article the professors were viciously attacked by their own academic peers. Watch video with a brief interview by Tucker Carlson, and then read the offending article.
ARE ALL CULTURES EQUAL?
Tucker Carlson talks with Professor Larry Alexander.
The educational establishment is outraged by two professors' defense of traditional values. WATCH VIDEO:
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Paying the price for breakdown
of the country's bourgeois culture
Amy Wax is the Robert Mundheim professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. awax@law.upenn.edu Larry Alexander is the Warren distinguished professor at the University of San Diego School of Law. larrya@sandiego.edu
Too few Americans are qualified for the jobs available. Male working-age labor-force participation is at Depression-era lows. Opioid abuse is widespread. Homicidal violence plagues inner cities. Almost half of all children are born out of wedlock, and even more are raised by single mothers. Many college students lack basic skills, and high school students rank below those from two dozen other countries.
The causes of these phenomena are multiple and complex, but implicated in these and other maladies is the breakdown of the country’s bourgeois culture. That culture laid out the script we all were supposed to follow:
- Get married before you have children and strive to stay married for their sake.
Get the education you need for gainful employment, work hard, and avoid idleness.
- Go the extra mile for your employer or client.
- Be a patriot, ready to serve the country.
- Be neighborly, civic-minded, and charitable.
- Avoid coarse language in public.
- Be respectful of authority.
- Eschew substance abuse and crime.
These basic cultural precepts reigned from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s. They could be followed by people of all backgrounds and abilities, especially when backed up by almost universal endorsement. Adherence was a major contributor to the productivity, educational gains, and social coherence of that period.
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