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  • By: Thomas Sowell
  • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
  • Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (15 ratings)
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Summary

Most commentators look at the issue of immigration from the viewpoint of immediate politics. In doing so, they focus on only a piece of the issue and lose touch with the larger picture. Now Thomas Sowell offers a sweeping historical and global look at a large number of migrations over a long period of time. Migrations and Cultures shows the persistence of cultural traits in particular racial and ethnic groups, and the role these groups’ relocations play in redistributing skills, knowledge, and other forms of “human capital.” This book answers the question: What are the effects of disseminating the patterns of the particular set of skills, attitudes, and lifestyles each ethnic group has carried forth—both for the immigrants and for the host countries, in social as well as economic terms?

©1996 Thomas Sowell (P)2010 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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“This is a lively and provocative book that is important reading for anyone who thinks we have too many immigrants or too few, who favors affirmative action and multicultural programs or opposes them….Deflates any windbag oratory about the United States being a unique land of opportunity, where migrants succeed by discarding their former culture and leaping naked into the great melting pot.” ( New York Times)
“Interesting insights abound….comprehensive and detailed.” ( Publishers Weekly)
“Thomas Sowell is one of the wonders of the American intellectual world….Not only is this book crammed with detailed research that even experts will find instructive, but it is willing to look unflinchingly at evidence that suggests migration can be bad as well as good—and even that the era of mass migration may be drawing to a close.” (Peter Brimelow, author of Alien Nation: Common Sense about America’s Immigration Disaster)

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an important read

quite a dry book for Thomas Sowell, but an important read nevertheless, divides numerous examples of six different cultures that migrated across the world and their various successes, failures and the discriminatory act used against them. regardless of the discriminatory act used against them by the wider society the immigrant most of the groups of immigrants find success in their adopted land. humans have never been kind to each other as Sowell demonstrates this in the book, economic misunderstanding's lead to murder, genocide and subjugation. his tragic vision of the human race as resentment against those who put in the effort seems to take over entire cultures leading to genocides. is book explains that economic disparities tend to follow the pattern of the "do or the do not's" rather than the "have or they have not's" as his numerous examples point out how even very ill educated people can rise in just a single generation out of poverty and become more successful than the people in the country that they have immigrated to, this leads to suspicion and resentment.

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concise and understandable

Thomas Sowell skillfully lays out, people by people & region by region, the cultural migrations (and outcomes thereof) that explain the world we see today.

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