The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that the government has a "compelling interest" in promoting diversity -- apparently more compelling than the 14th Amendment's requirement of "equal protection" of the law for everybody.It might possibly be that a decision about what is good in the United States might differ from such a decision made in Japan or India. America is, after all, exceptional.
How does a racially homogeneous country like Japan manage to have high quality education, without the essential ingredient of diversity, for which there is supposedly a "compelling" need?
Conversely, why does India, one of the most diverse nations on Earth, have a record of intergroup intolerance and lethal violence today that is worse than that in the days of our Jim Crow South?
The title is Sowell's.
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I recall seeing a much better explanation for the state of our educational system, and it was, "It is this way because the people who rule our country want it that way."
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The Knowledge Network is the TVO here, but TVO has a lot more original content.
For education, yeah, it's getting uglier, but it wasn't actually built to be awful, and was something the US could take pride in for quite a while. It's the death of 1000 cuts. It's not destroyed yet, but it'll get there.
The problem is (mostly) economic and the solution is essentially fiscal. If we took $300 billion dollar a year out of strategic weapons (cut warheads to ~300, mothballed half the SSBNs, retired the strategic bomber force and restructured stockpile maintenance) and redundant foreign bases housing mechanized and armored forces that will never again be needed (note "needed" is not the same as "used") and put those funds into education, particularly higher salaries and better classrooms and modernized equipment, we could turn it around in one generation. But the priorities run the other way...
Yes. It's not a crisis of ability, it's a crisis of desire.
The spirit's not willing despite the flesh being not weak?
Conversely, why does India, one of the most diverse nations on Earth, have a record of intergroup intolerance and lethal violence today that is worse than that in the days of our Jim Crow South?
WTF? What orifice is he pulling this statement out of?
Tom Sowell makes a mighty fine argumentation. If you got apples and oranges in a bag then how they gonna be as good as a bag of only apples or only oranges. Yes sirree Bob he makes a good point. Imagine if you bought a bag of oranges in a supermarket and when you got them home they were apples!!
Damned miscegenation!
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