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    1. Jacob T. Levy‏ @jtlevy 23 Jul 2019

      The Amy Wax “cultural distance= distinction between First and Third Worlds= distinction between whites and nonwhites” stuff is so strange. Where is the evidence that, say, immigrants from India have had encountered “cultural distance” difficulties in adapting? Or Jamaicans?

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    2. Jacob T. Levy‏ @jtlevy 23 Jul 2019

      If we name names, the cultural anxiety is a weird mix of anxiety about the numbers of migrants from Latin America and about the religious difference of those from the Middle East that then gets haphazardly and thoughtlessly slapped onto China, India, and sub-Saharan Africa.

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    3. Jacob T. Levy‏ @jtlevy 23 Jul 2019

      And it can’t be stressed often enough that west Africans need to be understood as part of the founding people of the United States, and if your vision of the original American culture excludes west Africans & Afro-Caribbeans but includes Russians & Italians... that’s just race.

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    4. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 23 Jul 2019
      Replying to @jtlevy

      She offers no evidence of negative cultural, political or economic externalities of "culturally distant" migrants, and excludes people of West African, indigenous, and Spanish colonial North American descent from her notion of the "legacy" population. That's all you need to know.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Jul 2019
      Replying to @willwilkinson @jtlevy

      I'm always puzzled by the fact that central & south America plus the Caribbean are not part of "Western civilization." I mean they mostly speak European languages, are mostly Christian, have laws rooted in Anglo-Spanish-Luso-French traditions, etc.

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        1. Jacob T. Levy‏ @jtlevy 23 Jul 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @willwilkinson

          Yep.

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        1. Daniel Samanez‏ @DanielSamanez 23 Jul 2019
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          They are part as colonies

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        1. Mike Miller, PhD‏ @mlmillerphd 23 Jul 2019
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        1. Matthew Zeitlin‏Verified account @MattZeitlin 23 Jul 2019
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          some caribbean and west african thinkers thought they were and wanted to form a postcolonial francophone french republic

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        1. mjl ( 🤷)‏ @the_mjl 23 Jul 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @willwilkinson @jtlevy

          Latin America has historically been majority Catholic. The "Save Western Civ" crowd has many Evangelicals in it. They don't consider Catholics to be 'true christians'.

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        1. John Keating‏ @moreorlessbunk 23 Jul 2019
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          I thought you might have thoughts @AnandWrites

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        1. Al Peṭṭerson‏ @eyelessgame 23 Jul 2019
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          Don't be puzzled. It's obvious, isn't it, exactly what they mean by "Western".

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        1. Carrington Ward‏ @CarringtonWard 23 Jul 2019
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          When it comes down to it, the Greeks and Romans were swarthy Mediterraneans... And the Germanic tribes were the cradle of 'democracy.' ... American Proto-Nazi ideology that, until recently, seemed a relic of the late 19th century.

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        2. The University Bookman‏ @ubookman 23 Jul 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @delong and

          I attribute that to anti-Catholic bias of Protestant American culture, at least through 1980s, when Rs decided immigrants from those nations were natural conservatives.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Jul 2019
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          Anti-Catholicism has historically been part of the reason (not just for Spanish but also for French-Canadians, who the New York Times described in 19th century as "the Chinese of the Americas"). But now morphed to race.

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