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tricycle3778
2m ago
Even though the Germans were assimilated into the US quite readily
We really need to do away with this retcon. German Americans were a distinct ethnic group for over a hundred years. Asian and Hispanic Americans have assimilated at a much faster rate. I've met third generation Mexican Americans who have no clue where in the hell their grandparents are from.
tricycle3778
7m ago
If this continues, the genes of that organism will go extinct. Their genes are reduced by half per iteration.
Russia is one standard deviation below America in h value.
Have you been to Alabama?
Perhaps not a majority, but a lot of modern white Americans are an amalgamation of the most grotesque personal attributes imaginable, with obesity at the top of that list. The average second generation Indian American I meet is leagues above in terms of physical shape, courteousness, and overall pleasantness to be around.
Goodguy
19m ago
Personally, I am against any politics that prevents me from fucking hot Indian women. Sorry white race, or America, or whatever... I care more about fucking hot women than I care about any of those things. As indeed I should. After all, the white race itself is the product of race-mixing thousands of years ago, as are all other races. I trust that my libido knows what the right thing to do is when it comes to these things.
Templexious
21m ago
Under the assumption the h1b visa program actually does that, go for it.
ResoluteRaven
26m ago
This analysis assumes that there is a single Indian population whose traits are normally distributed, but it seems pretty clear that there are in fact dozens of genetically and culturally distinct subpopulations that differ in average g and h by at least 1 or 2 SD's. This plays havoc with any tail-end estimates and there is an unfortunate lack of data in this area.
roystgnr
28m ago
No; Arianespace is clearly a high tech aerospace company. But the phrase you responded to was "major tech companies", and if you'll forgive my moving the goal posts back to that, retaining ~1% of a market vs a competitor you got decades of head start against is not "major".
SpaceX accomplishments are of such magnitude that Arianespace once called them "a dream" (derogatory). It's cool that they can still reach orbit, but they're just not in the same league ... and what's most damning is they have no plans to fix that! They're not like Blue Origin, with big plans that are just running late; their remaining market is a political sinecure, so they're content with it. They're not a company you want to name to contest the differences between US and EU innovation, they're a company you want to name to demonstrate it!
TIRM
31m ago
American genes
I'm an American. The past few generations of my family were Americans.
What on Earth is an "American gene"? I don't mean that as an obtuse "pretending I can't understand words" rhetorical trick. My ancestors are from Ireland. You mean my Irish genes were transformed into American genes? Like how most white Americans are predominantly some mix of English and German genes, now transformed "American genes"?
DradisPing
34m ago
66% of Infosys h1bs make less than 100k.
https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=infosys&job=&city=&year=2024
I think it's fair to say that Infosys doesn't actually believe any of those will perform well at a high skill job.
It's just trivially easy to spot h1b body shops. A salary floor and a ban on companies who have been exploiting them from getting more would be simple and effective.
Humans only developed the ability to form social groups because it benefitted gene proliferation.
Did they?
Why should I think twice before nutting in a hot Bay Area Indian to produce an Anglo-South Asian 145 IQ super hybrid? My seed will not be denied its evolutionary longing!
hydroacetylene
55m ago
Ok. Cards on the table- I'm a little worried about population collapse. But only a little. My ingroup is above replacement; more economically successful outgroups pushing dogs in strollers instead of breeding means more opportunities for my children, and those of my friends and relatives. I'm sick of subsidizing public school systems from which I derive no benefit except relentless demands for more money- asking what they need it for being proof you hate children, of course. Not that I have any illusions that the public school system won't continue demanding ever more money even if it has 0 enrollment.
Who do I think should be having more children? Well, I recognize that while teenagers getting married to someone suitable and having babies isn't the end of the world, it's also not going to happen. My heart does go out to the normie women who sacrifice big chunks of their fertility by cohabiting for five+ years before marriage- cohabitation is a bad thing just in general, but wreaking vengeance like that is sad to see. I would like to see early-twenties marriages, not partnerships, come back into fashion by getting cohabitation replaced with marriage.
Felagund
57m ago
No, he definitely agrees with James 2:10. Compare "but fails in one point" of James 2:10 with "does not abide by all things written" in Galatians 3:10. And then, in the context of each of those passages, both similarly draw from that that we cannot satisfy the full measure of the law.
What do you make of the crown of life in James 1:12? I think it is probably fair to say, though, that the book is considering more the second coming of Christ than an explicit reference to the resurrection. I think 1 Peter 1:23-24 is interesting here—we see there a quotation of a passage like the one you are pointing to, but he frames that as something that is only true of those who are not born again. That maybe fits James, as James emphasizes that especially of the unrighteous, but I'm not sure.
Do you think, e.g. Acts 5:1-11 is Pauline in character?
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
But, why? Yes Italians are closer to the english midlands(where the WASPs came from) or the scottish marches(where southern Whites came from), genetically, than Indians. But they're still Indo-European. They're both closer than the west Africans who make up the single largest group in our founding stock.
Why draw the line there? What's special about white skin(and dot-Indians have more European than not features in other respects)? Literally.
I'm totally onboard with "Indian culture is bad and we shouldn't let them in because they're savages who worship cows/can't stop fucking close relatives/are awful scam artists/whatever". I'm onboard with "Their HBD is bad, Italians' wasn't". But there's no particular reason to draw the genetic similarity lines at the Bosporous and Gibraltar.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
It's interesting that media portrays the accent as a Waspy new England affectation, when in reality most people who use it are red-dirt types from or with ties to the rural south- like listening to me speak a sentence that doesn't have a wh sound, you wouldn't expect me to drop a what even just before I do.
Imaginary_Knowledge
1hr ago
It applies at all scales from the family on up. Still, there is a threshold of distance between A and B in genetic space below which A and B perceive each other as partners and beyond which they perceive each other as competitors. All white Europeans are inside the genetic similarity threshold.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Americans (of any non-indian ethnicity) lose the biological competition regardless of whether intermarriage occurs 100%, 50%, or 0%
It's by no means an implausible mid-term future scenario for the US to have higher fertility than India; indeed, the USA being a top three developed world country for TFR(competing with France for #2) is very much in the cards and India's fertility is plummeting and already below replacement.
FirmWeird
Randomly Generated Reddit Username
1hr ago
No, it is because of corruption. The PM who trashed the French deal in exchange for the comedically terrible AUKUS one (America is entirely within their rights under the contract to take our money and give us nothing in return) has an incredibly plumb job with one of the American companies that are going to be profiting from that deal (look up Scott Morrison).
MajorSomeday
1hr ago
Dance! set up some couples dance lessons, y’all get some quality time, it’s good exercise, you both get happier. as she gets more in shape she’ll enjoy doing physical activity more.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
The south retained its founding majority quite late, and there's still parts of the south which are majority founding stock.
I will grant you that poor rural southerners are not what people usually mean by it.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Have you considered that people don't like having new neighbors who openly look down their noses at them?
SSCReader
1hr ago
Not really centuries though. If you are segregated you aren't going to assimilate into the culture you are segregated from.
"Restrictive covenants blocked black entry into many neighborhoods. Schools were openly segregated. Shopkeepers and theaters displayed “whites only” signs. Sugrue writes, “Even celebrities such as Josephine Baker, Paul Robeson, Dorothy Dandridge and Marian Anderson had a hard time finding rooms and faced Jim Crow in restaurants when they toured the North.”"
"In 1964, he tried to open public construction sites to black workers by suing New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and New York City Mayor Robert Wagner, charging they were turning an unconstitutional blind eye on craft union discrimination. New York’s highest court, however, was unimpressed, ruling 7-0. But three years later, our office won a similar case in a federal trial court against Ohio’s Gov. James Rhodes."
Even now many northern cities are de facto segregated, even if it does not have any legal backing. You can only assimilate into a culture if you are spending time in that culture (and that culture is willing to spend time with you). As mentioned by other's Italian-American culture only began to assimilate as other groups shared space with them.
African-American culture is the result of assimilation, it just wasn't assimilation into the broader American culture, but one picking up what little came across from Africa, plus from the poor borderers and the like they were surrounded by. It certainly isn't much like actual African cultures (hence why you get clashes between newer African immigrants and ADOS).
So now to assimilate them, you would have to have them exposed on a daily basis in and around the culture you want them to take on, and undo the previous behaviors that have been internalized. But that does have costs to the broader culture and there will be frictions due to historical racial grievances. Or to put it another way, very few people progressive or otherwise want black kids bussed into their schools, for quite understandable reasons in many cases. So we're stuck.
My wife is black and when I got to family events, I am usually the only white person there, or perhaps one other at most. When I stayed at her mother's house I might see one or two other white people within a couple of blocks. You can't assimilate to a culture you barely experience.
ADOS had a very different path to where they are now than any voluntary group of immigrants. So we shouldn't expect them to integrate in the same way.
MajorSomeday
1hr ago
For all 3 of my kids, my wife and I made a big list of names we liked, made it into a short list, then didn’t decide til after the baby was born. For some of them it took a day or two til we decided.
I don’t think you should try anything too systemic or algorithmic. Do a bit of it to get an idea and to narrow down the range. But at the end of the day, pick a name that you can say over and over and not hate. Trust your gut.
fribble
1hr ago
That was interesting reading, thank you. My husband pokes fun at me because my pronunciation of white is distinct from how I pronounce wight... Because I pronounce my wh's.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
It was explained to me by a Brazilian H1B after he told a story about being offended by corporate DEI efforts thinking he needed help- Indian devs mostly suck, but they're so so so much cheaper that just fixing mistakes is more cost effective.
I’m not comparing US and EU innovation. I’m saying that India, despite having a billion residents, has little to no high tech or innovative companies.
Ariane is not necessary to make my point. You’re arguing against the words here, not the point.
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