tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post1914335013361623834..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Charlotte Allen's "Silicon Chasm"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger75125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-16142661129081006492013-11-28T13:02:23.793-08:002013-11-28T13:02:23.793-08:00For me at least the more interesting story of the ...For me at least the more interesting story of the area is what happened with the modest homes in the "middle class" areas. I grew up there and am looking for a home for my family. A two income family like mine that makes 200-250k can buy about the same home as my father. Maybe a bit nicer. He led a single income family and had a union blue collar job. Our street was a mix of skilled blue collar workers and white collar workers. I recall an accountant and a pharmacist. Another neighbor sold cars. Still another worked at the Stanford Linear Accelerator. <br /><br />What has disappeared in the area is economic diversity in the middle class. My cousins who stayed in the trades either have been pushed to Alameda or Solano Co. or are living marginal existences renting for the most part unless they bought a home before 2004.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-39125269677613197082013-11-28T12:39:36.540-08:002013-11-28T12:39:36.540-08:00Interesting article and comments. The idea of Sil...Interesting article and comments. The idea of Silcon Valley serfs seems a great exaggeration to me. The same areas with the "serfs" now had lower classes of people when I was a kid there in the 1980's and 1990's. The biggest changes I see is many fewer blacks and more Mexicans now. Other than EPA the idea that these are areas that tech workers are too scared to drive through is greatly exaggerated as well. As an example compared to East Oakland or Richmond I would say the crime rates in the worst parts of Redwood City and San Mateo and the gang activity is quite a bit lower.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-61912581196194720082013-11-27T14:30:31.237-08:002013-11-27T14:30:31.237-08:00I see that the Army now has a robot that carries t...<i>I see that the Army now has a robot that carries the packs for the Marines.</i><br /><br />Best sentence on the internet ever. Kudos to you if you can spot why!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-5118618077627243962013-11-27T03:55:42.535-08:002013-11-27T03:55:42.535-08:00>> Now throw some characters from Calcutta,...>> Now throw some characters from Calcutta, Moscow, Tel Aviv<br /><br />TelAviv itself isn't a notable source of tech talent.<br /><br />Unit 8200 collects those type of guys. It has the national record (here) for alumni who make it big in Tech.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-37097426880536024772013-11-27T03:49:55.793-08:002013-11-27T03:49:55.793-08:00>> You cannot change your nationality since...>> You cannot change your nationality since it is defined by your birth<br /><br />Please change the word "nationality" to "ethnicity".<br /><br />Nationality is changed in a heartbeat when the appropriate legal document is issued.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-34852784504787940002013-11-27T03:44:10.082-08:002013-11-27T03:44:10.082-08:00>> are scored for fewest dishes broken whil...>> are scored for fewest dishes broken while the audience cheers<br /><br />I remember seeing a TV game show some years back in Singapore. There were competing teams of accountants from three different countries. The questions were all about tricky aspects of accountancy. "Assets comprising machinery must be depreciated over the long term instead of expensed in a single year. Exceptions are when ----- "?<br /><br />Whereas the manosphere proclaims: "if it flies fucks or floats - rent, don't buy".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-1192563331963320232013-11-27T03:29:30.690-08:002013-11-27T03:29:30.690-08:00>> Here in HK that's because domestic w...>> Here in HK that's because domestic workers get no right to stay once their contracts are up, and their <br /><br /><br />That's not untrue, but its only part of the truth. The rest of the truth is that Malayans aren't go-getters.<br /><br />In both Philippines and Indonesia, whatever serious business is not owned by a chinese family is owned by Koreans.<br /><br />In Philippines, 95% of the patents of the patents being filed at the national patent office, are filed by non-Filipinos.<br /><br />You'd want a probinciana Filipina taking care of your house and children - be it as a nanny or as a wife. They're also fairly good with businesses which comprise some flavor of retail offering of goods or services.<br /><br />That's their specialized niche. Leave them in that sphere and they will never fuck you up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-18673992204485866802013-11-26T21:56:18.075-08:002013-11-26T21:56:18.075-08:00Bill said
>Do you know any conservatives? '...Bill said<br /><br />>Do you know any conservatives? 'Cause most cons ARE praising Valley Oligarchs and Finance Thieves to the high heavens and calling less fortunate Americans a bunch of sore losers. That's what conservatives do.<<br /><br />Bill is correct here. If you have a successful lawn-care business, a large middle class home in the sticks, some credit cards, and two SUVs, you may consider yourself to be on the side of the successful against all of life's losers and pathetic pussies...but guess what? You are just another prole to the Randroid Paulians. If they can build a robot to do your job, or do a currency devaluation and rob you of your savings, you'll end up as a grifter who makes beds or sings for his supper in between running scams, and some con figure on cable will be echoing the lib figure on cable spitting that you're no good except as an argument for population replacement. ("One can always retrain oneself to be a nuclear engineer and get a job in Nigeria," I hear the bought-and-paid-for think-tankers protesting. "And doesn't America have a scarcity of lawyers and scrub nurses?") <br /><br />I remember doing corporate tax returns for one of the Big Four in my hot youth. One day a colleague remarked, "theoretically, these returns could be done by Indians over the internet." "What do you think we should say when we bill clients?" I quipped, "[Apu accent:] 'thank you, come again'?" It was a good prep-school, "wickedly un-PC" joke, always highly appreciated in that crowd, but this time the snickers died on everyone's lips. They had spent quite a lot of money on their education....<br /><br />Economically, the real world isn't left v. right. It's the 1% v. the 99%. The broken clock of Occupy has been right only once, when it comes to that slogan. (Actually, it's more like .1% v. 99.9%; but let that pass.) It's the parasites at the top and the bottom v. workers in the middle. This is why all the conservative-libertarian rhetoric sounds increasingly hollow. It amounts to: "be a good serf who doesn't drink to dysfunction or make trouble for the oligarchs, and oh yeah - hip-hop-hooray for the fellatio-worthy Genius and $uperior Moral Character of [insert name of this year's #1 person on the Fortune 500 list - Jay Z, or Al Capone, or Kenneth Lay, or Carlos Slim, or Zuckerberg, or Lloyd Blankfein, et al.].<br /><br />If you think you're a conservative because you work hard and provide for your family, so does anybody who chops cars - and both of you are despised in equal measure by the 1% and their shills, whether these appear on Fox or MSNBC or "work" for Brookings or Cato. Your conservative congress creature may put on a good show about opposing abortion, but privately he or she thinks you should be paid the minimum possible - and is at the same time in favor of abolishing the minimum wage (as well as Social Security and Unemployment Insurance). According to free market economics, there would be plenty of jobs available at 50 cents per hour. Not to mention the limitless opportunities afforded by the voluntary economic exchange of becoming indentured.<br /><br />In the annals of ingratitude, it's hard to beat the middle class - whose structural conditions were created in large part through union struggles - turning around and berating their benefactors as commies and thugs.Davidhttp://david-passingparade2.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-57545411646408434382013-11-26T11:26:58.801-08:002013-11-26T11:26:58.801-08:00No, America is not one nation. I don't share a...<i>No, America is not one nation. I don't share a common heritage and descent with the horde of blacks in the ghetto who live 5 miles from me.</i><br /><br />That's what I said. "America" isn't a nation.<br /><br /><i>White and black don't need to be specific to America any more than Arab needs to be specific to Arabia for the words to have notional meaning within the context they are used.</i><br /><br />"Arab" isn't specific to Arabia. There are Arabs in the Levant, North Africa, Asia Minor, etc. Just as "white" and "black" aren't specific to America. <br /><br /><i>I indicated patrilines to draw a broad outline of the genetic heritage and its sources that makes up white Americans, not to inlude everyone who might somehow bear that marker as a white American. Your ridiculous points about other people with those patrilines hardly addresses what I am saying.</i><br /><br />I did address what you're saying. Patrilines aren't "broad outlines of genetic heritage". They're specific. If you want "broad outlinse of genetic heritage", you want to include things like autosomal DNA.<br /><br /><i>Obviously not, since they lack white or black American culture, genetics, history, religion, and commonality, and all the other factors that go in to making a specific group of people a nation, and moreover since they are not American.</i><br /><br />Phenotypically they can pass for white and black. That's sufficent for them to Americans by phenotype. Most Americans lack a history or descent with the America of the 1600s.<br /><br /><i>More to the point, what I am saying, and you are being obtuse about, is that merely falling off a boat or a plane onto American soil does not and cannot make you an American, since Americans, regardless of what they say about propositional nationhood, DO NOT treat foreigners as if they are Americans, regardless of citizenship, and they do distinguish Americanism by outward appearances combined with genetic descent, culutral behavior and legal status.</i><br /><br />Papuans and Arabs who are phenotypically black and white aren't just falling off a boat or a plane onto American soil. They're also born phenotypically black and white, which is sufficent for them to Americans by phenotype.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-22071738888378216972013-11-26T04:44:19.808-08:002013-11-26T04:44:19.808-08:00Anon @ 10:17:
Are you always this purposefully ob...Anon @ 10:17:<br /><br />Are you always this purposefully obtuse?<br /><br />No, America is not one nation. I don't share a common heritage and descent with the horde of blacks in the ghetto who live 5 miles from me.<br /><br />White and black don't need to be specific to America any more than Arab needs to be specific to Arabia for the words to have notional meaning within the context they are used.<br /><br />I indicated patrilines to draw a broad outline of the genetic heritage and its sources that makes up white Americans, not to inlude everyone who might somehow bear that marker as a white American. Your ridiculous points about other people with those patrilines hardly addresses what I am saying.<br /><br /><i>There are Papuans who look black, and there are Arabs who can pass for white. That should be sufficient for them to be Americans by phenotype.</i><br /><br />Obviously not, since they lack white or black American culture, genetics, history, religion, and commonality, and all the other factors that go in to making a specific group of people a nation, and moreover since they are not American. I think Steve has expressed here before a very good definition of a nation as a loosely related group of people who are all distant cousins. They clearly fail right away on that definition.<br /><br />More to the point, what I am saying, and you are being obtuse about, is that merely falling off a boat or a plane onto American soil does not and cannot make you an American, since Americans, regardless of what they say about propositional nationhood, DO NOT treat foreigners as if they are Americans, regardless of citizenship, and they do distinguish Americanism by outward appearances combined with genetic descent, culutral behavior and legal status.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-41200149484940776972013-11-25T22:17:39.451-08:002013-11-25T22:17:39.451-08:00You really are confused. A nation is a group of pe...<i>You really are confused. A nation is a group of people of common descent, culture and history. A country is a legal state. America is a country. It has two nations.</i><br /><br />Right. "America" isn't a nation.<br /><br /><i>They are perfectly specific and refer to the two distinct nation/cultures present in America.</i><br /><br />"White" and "black" aren't specific to America. There are whites and black alls over the world.<br /><br /><i> I find it funny you dismiss this as indicating just patrilines when genetic heritage comes and from and is preserved by sexual reproduction.</i><br /><br />You just indicated patrilines. Genetic heritage is more than mere patrilines. That's why there are R1a's in South Asia and R1b's among coal-black Cameroonians.<br /><br /><i>Papuans and Arabs cannot become American by moving to our country regardless of their skin color. You cannot change your nationality since it is defined by your birth. You cannot have children who blend into a new nationality if they don't look anything like that ethnic group.</i><br /><br />There are Papuans who look black, and there are Arabs who can pass for white. That should be sufficient for them to be Americans by phenotype. Most Americans lack a history or descent with the America of the 1600s.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-67811431550724965812013-11-25T22:00:30.036-08:002013-11-25T22:00:30.036-08:00"... 38-year-old Nikesh Kalma, Santa Clara-bo..."<i>... 38-year-old Nikesh Kalma, Santa Clara-born of Indian immigrant parents, who, with an MBA from Oxford, is an executive for Equinix, a cloud-storage landlord headquartered in Redwood City. 'The perception is that Indians are taking away good American jobs,' Kalma said. 'The reality is that you Americans can’t turn out engineers fast enough.'</i>"<br /><br />It's impossible to know from the writer's transcription -- tone and inflection on "you Americans" may have been other than how it sounds, i.e. a whiny complaint -- but even if he said it in a deliberately rude way I don't find that at all startling from someone who lives in and breathes the air of the SF Bay futurist-libertarian hothouse. Yes, they outwardly identify as "Democrat" but their true alliance is to Creative Destruction. Whereas most South Asians you might run into around, say, the Bergen County suburbs would have the tact or at least rote awareness to realize this is not the way to talk, an Indian guy who swims with the pagan Randian fish of Googletopia might as well be a Mayflower descendant since all of them have dispensed with that vestigial affiliation a while back. In Sailer's way of rendering history the credit for Silicon Valley dynamism is due to the pedigree of some Midwestern Protestant immigrants he read a paragraph about once, while N. California's faux-NYC liberals are to blame for everything bad that followed. Little does he know how the industry's perverse culture owes to East Asian influence from the outset (Jello Biafra was onto something with that first version of "California Uber Alles"). Now throw some characters from Calcutta, Moscow, Tel Aviv, as well as the antisocial knob-twiddling rejects from the rest of the U.S. into the mix and the contours of the problem sharpen.libertarians delenda estnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-52090581298958907822013-11-25T21:37:12.264-08:002013-11-25T21:37:12.264-08:00If most of them were conservative Republicans, mos...<i>If most of them were conservative Republicans, most cons would be praising them to high heaven for their success and would be calling the less fortunate Americans a bunch of 'sore losers'.</i><br /><br />Uh yeah, that's real interesting. Following your brilliant counterfactual, if most were Republicans the parrot libs at the NY Times and NBC would also demand an immediate halt to H-1Bs and probably start sounding keen on outlawing those distracted-driving slave-labor iPads too. You just figured this dynamic out?<br /><br />Setting aside the GOP's blindness of self-interest for a moment, why aren't Democrats trying to protect <a href="http://www.deadline.com/2013/11/vfx-president-obama-katzenberg-not-target-dreamworks-protest/" rel="nofollow">young-to-middle-aged talented cultural liberals losing their jobs to Vietnamese animation boiler rooms</a>? (And these guys are so meek they demur from holding Jesus Obama in any way responsible for this policy trap.) Gee, it's almost as if the modern netroots Democrat horseshit is inconsistent and hypocritical in spots. It's as if they only care about shoring up a fig-leaf 51% expense-approved stamp for the palace maintenance costs of the imperial D.C. overclass.FAQ for the partisan doltnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-32457275848996679902013-11-25T19:14:54.025-08:002013-11-25T19:14:54.025-08:00Anon @ 4:16:
Then you're saying that "Am...Anon @ 4:16:<br /><br /><i>Then you're saying that "America" isn't a nation. A nation can't be defined as 2 distinct nations.</i><br /><br />You really are confused. A nation is a group of people of common descent, culture and history. A country is a legal state. America is a country. It has two nations.<br /><br />There are plenty of other states like this. Example:<br /><br />Britain - a state consisting of the germanic English and the celtic Welsh/Scots/Irish<br /><br />Lebanon - a state consisting of Romano/Punic Christians and Arab Muslims.<br /><br />Latvia - a state consisting of Latvian natives and Russian colonists.<br /><br />Kazakhstan - a state consisting of Kazakhs and Russians.<br /><br />Australia - a state consisting of Aborginies and Anglo-Australians.<br /><br />Etc.<br /><br /><i>"White" and "black" aren't specific enough unless you want to include all whites and all blacks around the world.</i><br /><br />They are perfectly specific and refer to the two distinct nation/cultures present in America.<br /><br /><i>Y chromosomes just indicate patrilines. They don't indicate "common European types." R1a is dominant in South Asia.</i><br /><br />I'm using them as shorthand for the admixture of white Europeans from the large groups like the Atlantic, Alpine, and Nordic types present in the mother country of England and in America. R1a's presence in South Asia is because of the historical invasion of India by the Aryans, not because Indians can somehow magically become Americans by moving to our country. I find it funny you dismiss this as indicating just patrilines when genetic heritage comes and from and is preserved by sexual reproduction.<br /><br /><i>This would indicate that every phenotypically white and black person in the world (this would also include some Arabs, South Asians, Papau New Guineans, etc. in addition to Europeans and blacks) is American despite a lack of common history or descent with the America of the 1600s.</i><br /><br />I don't see how you possibly jump to this bizarre assertion. We are discussing the American groups of white and black Americans, who would be people born in America and descended from European colonists and immigrants, and African slaves. Papuans and Arabs cannot become American by moving to our country regardless of their skin color. You cannot change your nationality since it is defined by your birth. You cannot have children who blend into a new nationality if they don't look anything like that ethnic group.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-43191818446531745162013-11-25T18:34:35.473-08:002013-11-25T18:34:35.473-08:00Cail Corishev said: But for Zuckerberg specificall...Cail Corishev said: <i>But for Zuckerberg specifically, he doesn't need people to move to the US to be Facebook employees OR consumers. Mass immigration probably won't affect his bottom line enough to pay him back for what he's sinking into advocacy. He has other motives.</i><br /><br />Other motives, yes -- some of it's what's been discussed upthread, but don't forget the recent discussion we had here on iSteve about '<a href="http://isteve.blogspot.hk/2013/07/immigration-as-yankee-missionary-impulse.html" rel="nofollow">Opening borders as the Yankee missionary impulse'</a>. <br /><br />In his initial article, Steve identified the rage for open borders as a transmutation of the persistent 'Yankee missionary impulse' that has run through so much US history.<br /><br />I added (this was the thread in which I took on the name The Last Real Calvinist) that one element of that impulse is the classic Calvinist guilt/doubt paradox, i.e. the guilt the 'chosen' feel in relation to their undeserved status, and the gnawing doubt that they might not really be chosen after all. This pressure then has to be relieved, and the chosen status reaffirmed, by acts of conspicuous merit. As I mentioned in that thread, "The post-Calvinist chosen-vs-guilty struggle is currently most evident in the immigration debate: why do we who were born here deserve this great country? How dare we keep others from enjoying this earthly salvation, when only bad people would be so selfish?"<br /><br />This provides motivation aplenty, in addition to all the other factors we've discussed in this thread. It leaves me very, very worried that the immigration reform legislation currently lying dormant in the congress is going to be reanimated, sooner or later, and that something disastrous will inevitably be passed.TheLRCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-6480223474279043982013-11-25T16:39:37.296-08:002013-11-25T16:39:37.296-08:00They don't want to mow their own lawns, clean ...<i>They don't want to mow their own lawns, clean their own homes, or cook their own food. They want neofeudalism.</i><br /><br />Who really does want to mow their own lawn, clean their own house or cook their own food? Certainly not me.<br /><br />I carefully bought a house with no lawn. I have two women coming in to clean tomorrow and I buy a lot of pre-cooked deli food from the frou-frou gourmet supermarket. I am looking to getting a pre cooked meals delivery service.<br /><br />None of this is very expensive. I certainly don't think any of this makes me medieval. Food itself has became expensive but cooking it hasn't changed much in price. The same is true for housework. I use an rather expensive service but I could spend much less if I wanted to exert the effort.<br /><br />All of these human servant services may have a very short future history. I have a robot floor cleaner already that I sometimes use. It only costs $100 - less than two tanks of gas. But the technology to replace my maids is still a few years away.<br /><br />I see that the Army now has a robot that carries the packs for the Marines. How much longer before we have a robot that can clean the toilet and wipe the counter tops? <br /><br />I think it will happen this way. Someone develops a house cleaning maid. It costs about $6,000 for the minimally functioning one and $25,000 for a really good one. Six thousand dollars in my neighborhood buys you minimal human maid service for a year. So when a robot becomes available at that price they will sell. Some entrepreneur will provide a service to supplement the minimum service with the better 'bot or with a human. So your level of cleanliness won't suffer.<br /><br />Richer people will simply buy the better model. It would be less expensive than a BMW. Almost certainly it would have Wi-Fi and an IPhone port.<br /><br />I would prefer a robot to a real person as a maid. My robot presumably would empty my dish washer and put the dishes in the right cabinets. Humans aren't very good at that.<br /><br />This isn't very far away. There will be a reality TV show soon where engineering students build competing housemaids and are scored for fewest dishes broken while the audience cheers. <br /><br />The point is, illegal aliens are soon to be unneeded. They have only short run utility.<br /><br />Albertosaurus Pat Boylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13477950851915567863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-10644157231312467502013-11-25T16:19:05.631-08:002013-11-25T16:19:05.631-08:00America is composed of two nations since its origi...<i>America is composed of two nations since its origins in the 1600's - white and black. Nation's are groups of closely related people of common descent and common history.</i><br /><br />Then you're saying that "America" isn't a nation. A nation can't be defined as 2 distinct nations.<br /><br />"White" and "black" aren't specific enough unless you want to include all whites and all blacks around the world.<br /><br /><i>White Americans are generically an admixture of the common European types exemplified by the areas covered by the R1a, R1b, I1, and I2 Y chromosomes.</i><br /><br />Y chromosomes just indicate patrilines. They don't indicate "common European types." R1a is dominant in South Asia.<br /><br /><i>The only way for an Asian person to have American children considered as such by generic Americans is to marry a white or black American and have their genetic phenotype washed out in the mix - i.e. see Tiger Woods.</i><br /><br />This would indicate that every phenotypically white and black person in the world (this would also include some Arabs, South Asians, Papau New Guineans, etc. in addition to Europeans and blacks) is American despite a lack of common history or descent with the America of the 1600s.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-72052013921097075422013-11-25T14:30:42.278-08:002013-11-25T14:30:42.278-08:00Contrary to popular belief; the claim is the Super...Contrary to popular belief; the claim is the Super-Computer in the Pentagon predicted "Soviet Union" collapse. The goal of this computer is to model Future Geo-Political issues. May be the "bright guys" in the Pentagon already know how things may pan-out.<br /><br />A wise Ascetic once said " Its better to do nothing, and sit idle", Because Karma cuts both ways Good & Bad, "Thinking is also Karma". Best is to meditate on God.<br /><br />As the Chinese say "May you live in Interesting Times", another claim is this saying is actually no Chinese saying. Some American made it up to sound "Wise".Solushttp://www.vsnl.net/~solusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-40701579670905749122013-11-25T13:27:24.888-08:002013-11-25T13:27:24.888-08:00And that's wrong, because what they really wan...<em>And that's wrong, because what they really want are not workers but consumers.</em><br /><br />True, that's a big part of it in general. But for Zuckerberg specifically, he doesn't need people to move to the US to be Facebook employees OR consumers. Mass immigration probably won't affect his bottom line enough to pay him back for what he's sinking into advocacy. He has other motives.Cail Corishevhttp://cailcorishev.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-39559043316578915902013-11-25T13:03:37.764-08:002013-11-25T13:03:37.764-08:00"Folks, lay your bets on China. This country&..."Folks, lay your bets on China. This country's done for. "<br /><br />who was that fascist or nazi sympathizer who declared the end of white man and whether chinese would read his books?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-35546679230861979212013-11-25T12:13:58.241-08:002013-11-25T12:13:58.241-08:00Nikesh's kids WILL view themselves as American...<i>Nikesh's kids WILL view themselves as Americans first. I've seen the same pattern with the Viets.</i><br /><br /><i>You are missing the point. Nikesh WAS born in America, but refers to Americans as "you Americans". He should consider himself as an American first. We shouldn't have to wait for his children to make this switch.</i><br /><br />From this I can conclude that immigrants from some nations assimilate faster than from others. It's not rocket science. Nor is it a white vs. non-white issue. Vietnamese assimilate faster than Indians. Poles assimilate faster than Albanians.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-64344122469724612402013-11-25T12:10:18.294-08:002013-11-25T12:10:18.294-08:00Silicon Serfdom, coming to a village near you.
&q...<i>Silicon Serfdom, coming to a village near you.</i><br /><br />"Silicon Serfdom" has a nice ring to it. I like it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-12921126210178062832013-11-25T11:54:49.776-08:002013-11-25T11:54:49.776-08:00Anon @ 8:32a:
The same is true in Manhattan.
Not...Anon @ 8:32a:<br /><br /><i>The same is true in Manhattan.</i><br /><br />Not really. The most Republican area of Manhattan is the corridor defined by Park, Madison, and 5th Avenues between 34th Street ad 96th Street.<br /><br />I'm sure you know this is ground zero for the homes of our financial overlords.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-55653050387267822342013-11-25T11:44:22.091-08:002013-11-25T11:44:22.091-08:00Anon @ 9:55a
You are missing the point. Nikesh WA...Anon @ 9:55a<br /><br /><i>You are missing the point. Nikesh WAS born in America, but refers to Americans as "you Americans". He should consider himself as an American first.</i><br /><br />I'm surprised you don't get it.<br /><br />America is composed of two nations since its origins in the 1600's - white and black. Nation's are groups of closely related people of common descent and common history.<br /><br />Being born in our country does not make you an American, any more than if I were born in Delhi or Caluctta in India I would somehow be a Hindi or Bengali.<br /><br />White Americans are generically an admixture of the common European types exemplified by the areas covered by the R1a, R1b, I1, and I2 Y chromosomes. Black Americans are generically an admixture of Africans from the west coast between Senegal and Angola, liberally salted with 5-25% of their genetics from American Indians and White Americans.<br /><br />By definition, it is impossible for anyone who looks Asian to be considered an American by nationality/ethnicity regardless of their citizenship, and I think if you ask most Asians, they will tell you they are not treated by white and black Americans as if they are equally American. Similarly, the default assumption among every white and black American is that any and every person who looks Asian is a foreigner, which is why someone like Nikesh would refer to us ("you American's") as an "other" of which he is not a part, despite common citizenship.<br /><br />The only way for an Asian person to have American children considered as such by generic Americans is to marry a white or black American and have their genetic phenotype washed out in the mix - i.e. see Tiger Woods.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-61350909450762813702013-11-25T11:19:54.406-08:002013-11-25T11:19:54.406-08:00"But if the tech scene is really a meritocrac..."But if the tech scene is really a meritocracy, why are so many of its key players, from Mark Zuckerberg to Steve Jobs, white men? "<br /><br />http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/11/silicon-valley-isnt-a-meritocracy-and-the-cult-of-the-entrepreneur-holds-people-back/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com