Ethnic America

I have read this after I studied overseas in the United States for 2 years. Before my coming to the USA, I barely have the idea of how the concept "ethnic" could virtually impact how people behave, how they communicate, and how they like each other. After all, I live in a society (China) where I ha......more

Excellent read. How can a guy take such deep and specific technical data and weave it into a fascinating story? Thomas Sowell is one of the most brilliant men in America. Even back in 1986 (or thereabouts) when this story was written, he's already honed his unique ability to make hard data completel......more

Each immigrant group has changed in America, and American society has changed in many ways. The most dramatic example is that today there are people sitting in Congress and on the Supreme Court whose ancestors were brought here as slaves. Among the world's leading scientific, political, and economic......more

Reading Tom Sowell makes me wish more of us could discuss and think honestly about ethnic differences more openly without the knee-jerk dismissal and cancellation of "racism." Not all meaningful distinctions between people from various parts of the world has to do with genetics and skin color. As a m......more

America is full of distinct ethnic groups. They have had substantially different experiences. This is a compare-and-contrast of nine such groups: The Irish, Italians, Germans, Jews, Chinese, Japanese, African-Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans. He is particularly interested in the extent to whic......more