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This one seems kind of tough to quickly summarize, since it covers so much. I guess the final paragraph does a decent job: Education, training in cognitive and
by blakesterz 5y ago
This one seems kind of tough to quickly summarize, since it covers so much. I guess the final paragraph does a decent job:
Education, training in cognitive and noncognitive skills, nutrition, health care and parenting are all among the building blocks of human capital, and evidence suggests that continuing investments that combat economic hardship among whites and minorities — and which help defuse debilitating conflicts over values, culture and race — stand the best chance of reversing the disarray and inequality that plague our political system and our social order.
https://archive.is/gggnc https://archive.is/gggnc
- temp8964 5y agoSounds amazing. So the group of kids with 70% fatherless can achieve the same as the group of kids with 30% fatherless! Wow.
- pedro2 5y agoYes! Forbid procreation, import people from overpopulated countries!
- Ensorceled 5y agoWhat does this even mean? What in-group jargon is this?
- fatsquirrel 5y ago30% of white and Asian kids are born of divorced parents while it’s 70% for Black and Latinx kids.
- im3w1l 5y agoI think he says that 70% of kids in one group are fatherless, and 30% of kids in another group are. And then saying that there must be an achievement gap because of this difference.
- temp8964 5y agoSee data here: https://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/line/107-children-in-single-parent-families-by-race?loc=1&loct=1#1/any/false/1729,37,871,870,573,869,36,868,867,133/asc/10,11,9,12,1,185,13/431 https://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/line/107-children-in-s...
- rayiner 5y agoPart of the conflict over “values and culture,” however, is over things that affect human capital. As a Bangladeshi immigrant who married into a white American family, it’s really hard for me to not notice the devastation mainstream American culture has racked on the ability to develop human capital. My younger siblings in law, who are in their early 20s live in towns (these are mainly white, working to middle class towns) where everyone’s parents are divorced, drug use doesn’t get you a beating from your dad (who often isn’t there), etc. Kids can’t get their feet under them because their home situations are always changing. For boys this is particularly bad, because their natural inclination is to cause trouble and the only thing that can keep them in control is a network of older men. (My dad grew up in a village in Bangladesh and remarked that he couldn’t do anything anywhere in the village without word getting back to his father.) Money can paper over a lot of problems, I’ll give you that. But it seems to me that if Americans were as poor as Bangladeshis, their society would totally collapse. The culture isn’t suited for survival or upward mobility.
- lappet 5y agoI think this is the main con of American individualism. The alternative is the culture in Asian societies and perhaps to some extent in European ones as well - there is always an Uncle or Aunty who is watching out for you. Of course that has cons where you can't do things that are unconventional, but at the very least you have a stop gap to help young people who are lost.
- wyager 5y agoThe greatest and most rapid creation of wealth in human history occurred in the US under an even more extreme form of American individualism than exists today. Europe is quite poor relative to America precisely because its anti-individualism prevents the formation of economic-political environments conducive to wealth creation.
- bhupy 5y agoOne could argue that this historic wealth creation also coincided with a high degree of Judeo-Christian religiosity. We're yet to see if the same success can be replicated under an equally individualistic culture, but one without a unified moral fabric via religion. And I say this as an Asian who was raised a Hindu and is now an atheist.