My new Taki's Magazine column is a Frequently Asked Questions list about the Richwine wingding. A sample:
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Q. Hispanics are an ethnicity, not a race, so how can we know that the next generation of Mexican immigrants won’t be very different?
A. I could imagine one event that would drive up new Hispanic immigrants’ children’s test scores substantially: another Revolution in Mexico. If rich white Mexicans, like the world’s richest man Carlos Slim, had to flee for their lives, the next generation of Mexican newcomers might be a lot like the prosperous Cubans who arrived in Miami after Fidel.
But the way immigration from Mexico has been working since the end of the last Revolution almost a century ago is via family chain migration. New immigrants tend to belong to the extended families of old immigrants.
Q. But that’s genetic determinism!
A. Actually, it’s both nature and nurture working in tandem. If, say, a young fellow from Sinaloa moves in with his uncle in East L.A., the newcomer shares a lot, genetically and culturally, with the old-timer.
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