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How Many Generations Until Immigrants Think Like the Rest of Us?

01 March, 2014Cognition, Culture, Demographics, Japan

I have long been fascinated by the “deep culture” differences that distinguish humanity’s numerous ethnic and cultural groups. That peoples from different continents and climes have different rules of etiquette, eat different foods, follow different schedules, and worship different gods is well known. But in many ways these differences barely scratch the surface of humanity’s […]

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The Economics of Sex

18 February, 2014Culture, Demographics

Social life in 21st century America makes a lot more sense when you think of dating as a split market with separate supply and demand curves. EDIT (18/02/2014): The Austin Institute has also published a neat list of the studies it used to make this video. Many are worth perusing.

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Shame and War

17 February, 2014Culture, Dogs of War, Japan, Political Theory, Possessions For All Time, The Middle Kingdom

USGS topographical map. “Japan, Korea, and Northeast China.” 2006. Image Source: koryostudies.com. What leads men and states to the path of war? For centuries thinkers and strategists of the Western tradition have turned to Thucydides and his history to find answers to this question. The great historian speaks of Athenian envoys rising up in hostile […]

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America Makes You Violent

08 January, 2014Community, Culture, Demographics

Late last year Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology published a study titled “The Immigrant Paradox: Immigrants are Less Antisocial Than Native Born Americans.” Given how closely certain sections of the blogosphere cover all things ethnic I was a tad surprised to find that no one has been talking about this paper and its conclusions. This […]

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Notes From All Over (26/11/13): Germs, Governments. and Gettysburg

26 November, 2013By The People, Culture, Demographics, Dogs of War, Epidemiology, Futuristics, History, Narrative, Notes From All Over, Persia, The Presidency

A collection of articles, essays, and blog post of merit. This is the first “Notes From All Over” I have written this month, so this list is a long one. TOP BILLING When We Lose Antibiotics, Here’s Everything Else We’ll Lose TooMaryn McKenna. Wired. 20 November 2013. If we really lost antibiotics to advancing drug resistance […]

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Radical Islamic Terrorism in Context, pt I

09 October, 2013Arabia, Culture, Demographics, Dogs of War, Family Structure, History, Near East, Religion

How to make sense of radical Islamic terrorism? This violence is barbaric – but it is not senseless. When you understand the society from which savagery has sprung, the cold logic behind these attacks becomes all too apparent. Part I in a series; Part II is here. Smoke rises from the Westgate MallSource: Jerome Delay/AP. […]

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Notes From Beijing: About that Chinese Social Contract

24 August, 2013Culture, Narrative, Political Theory, The Middle Kingdom, Wealth

Why does the Chinese public support the Communist Party of China? Many assert that the Chinese government retains its legitimacy through high growth rates. Few stop to consider what evidence supports the contention. Truth be told, there is not much. The Chinese people like to bargain. I have heard Chinese call bargaining an art; others […]

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The World, As Seen Through Contested Wikipedia Pages

18 July, 2013Culture, On Humanity

The ten most controversial (i.e. most prone to edit wars) articles in the English, German, French, Spanish Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew language Wikipedias: Source: Taha Yasseri1, Anselm Spoerri, Mark Graham1, and János Kertész. “The most controversial topics in Wikipedia: A multilingual and geographical analysis” Upcoming chapter in Global Wikipedia: International and cross-cultural […]

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2010s: The Decade Asian America Goes Mainstream

05 June, 2013Culture, Demographics

In an effort to prepare for the release of Iron Man 3 I devoted a several hours over the past few weeks to all of the Marvel Studio blockbusters I missed when serving as a missionary for the LDS Church. These films inspired the following observation: Asians Americans [1] are now an established part of America’s popular culture.The […]

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Do The Great Books Have a Place in the 21st Century?

27 May, 2013Books and Literature, Culture, Education, On Humanity, Possessions For All Time

A selection of the 60 volume Great Books of the Western World.Image source. A “proper education” changes with its times. In the days of America’s founding a true education was a classical education. An educated man was not simply expected to be familiar with the great works of Greek and Roman civilization; the study of […]

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