X Æ A-12 Truther

You seem like a good faith debater, so let me ask a simple question. Do you think an increasingly Asian elite will have no cultural effects? Or do you think there will be cultural effects, they’ll just be mostly good? Many Americans assume either that Asians assimilate well so we don’t need to worry about anything changing, or that Asians are great and we could frankly benefit from becoming a little more like them. I think both of those positions are honorable but reflect a lack of knowledge of the facts. What I don’t like is people who just say how dare you question this really consequential and rapid demographic change. This is a democracy, we get to talk about this stuff. My position, since you asked me to be clear about it, is that if America’s elite becomes over 40% Asian (as Harvard’s freshman class is), we will come to resemble China and India in various ways. I like both countries but I wouldn’t want to live there or raise my children there. Some of those changes will be bad. If you want to know specifically which changes, I’ve talked about some of them previously—grind culture, cheating. There are others but I don’t want to belabor the point.