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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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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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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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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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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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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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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