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Indian immigration to the US is one of the most well-engineered systems in our institutions ndian-Americans skew heavily toward upper castes — Brahmins, Kayasthas, Banias — with very few Dalits making it through. Among South Asian applicants to Columbia, Brahmins and South Indian Hindus average ~1500 SAT, significantly higher than East Asians.

For those unaware, Surf Dracula is the single most accurate description of how our media has become mediocre. Don't forget it. You see it everywhere.

A reminder that Mayor Anne Hidalgo will go down as one of the most consequential mayors of the modern time: a mayor who literally built 600 miles of bike lanes and made hundreds of streets car free in her 12 years as Paris mayor. Bravo.

Is a girl truly ever single or is the toxic ex always on their mind?

"White culture" as I've defined it is actually very specific if you take just a moment to think about it, but again, because it is the water people are swimming in they can't often see it, so for example, to be specific: The history of the Western legal tradition going back to Athens as ordered reason rather than mere might, to the moral laws of the Ten Commandments, to Augustinian Natural Law, the Magna Carta, English Common Law, Westphalian international law, Constitutionalism––fill this in with your own key milestones––is just a much different legal, normative, and philosophical lineage than for example Chinese Law with its basis in Confucianism, and this all gets encoded into our society in different ways that manifest in how we negotiate contracts, as just one small example, and why doing a deal with a Chinese businessman is different than doing a deal with an American one (which everyone ofc acknowledges are real and meaningful differences), and a million other things beside. We could also do this for religion and the obvious fact that Christian societies are going to have different values and moral restraints than Buddhist ones, and how those differences are embedded in what we think of as right and good and spiritually required of us versus what is morally negotiable, like our attitudes toward death, or guilt, or our commitments to our neighbors or how we treat animals or our commitments to our wives and children, and so on. It manifests in the subtle ways we think about concepts like liberty, and local self-governance, and the virtue of work, and how disputes are resolved, and how reputation is formed and on what basis, and how wealth is treated, and notions of hierarchy. In Albion's Seed, Fisher identifies like 30 categories of cultural practices that are all distinct to the four different sub-groups that made up America's founding stock, including things like "Magic ways," and "Age Ways," and "Sex Ways," that all get mixed up and bound together and are still readily prevalent like in America's unique attitude towards guns and love of cars. There's also just the fun superficial stuff you find parodied in places like "Stuff White People Like," which are maybe frivolous but nonetheless point at deep and profound attitudes and preferences, like white people really liking "camping," or "Blink 182," or "microbreweries," or "having black friends." You can actually identify all of this stuff and there are mountains of sociological research to testify to these differences and it's plainly obvious to anyone who *wants* to understand, but instead people get tripped up by the word "white" being used non-ironically or non-derisively and just as the famous tweet goes, "pretend not to understand."

Dr. Erica Komisar just said what many parents whisper but few say out loud: Modern schools are built for girls, not boys—and we’re paying a steep price. Little boys (ages 3–6) surge with testosterone. They need to run, jump, play, burn energy. Instead, we sit them in circle time, demand emotional regulation, and label normal boy behavior as ADHD or “behavioral problems.” Result? Marginalized, stressed, diagnosed early, and tracked that way through school. Her fix if she ran the world: Separate boys and girls in the early years. Boys get multiple recess periods, short focused bursts, and space to move. Girls get a calmer environment where they feel safe taking STEM/math risks. Both thrive when not forced into the opposite gender’s learning style. Single-gender early education: Boys try art/music without teasing. Girls try science without self-consciousness. Evidence already shows it works. Parents/teachers: Do you see boys struggling more in today’s classrooms—or is this overblown? What’s one change you’d make to education for boys right now?