HN is an interesting subculture, but most Americans would like to Assange in US prison, trying to explain to Red Rope and Benteye why he should keep his tennis shoes.
I love Finland but they don't have the diversity problems the US has. If you go to a non diverse school in Minneasota for example, it will be similar to a Finnish school.
No. It wouldn't. The kids would be smart and might be able to overcome the adversity of going to an "excellent" school. But that's not the same thing at all.
"Excellent" US schools have excelled at cheating and looking busy. Most "excellect" schools have amounts of homework that are nearly impossible to finish in an evening. Why do they do that? Because the main window into school that parents have is homework. Ratchet up the homework and you make your school seem "excellent".
My daughter is going to a dual-language public school and the way they teach involves constant collaboration, language, math, and art. The school is 67% economically disadvantaged and is doing fantastically on standardized tests.
Diversity is not the problem. The market is. It's providing the most attractive education. It provides an education with "excellence" that confers status upon the recipient.
But that should not be confused with the education that educates the best and has the most benefit to society.
So the US privately stated how corrupt the Equadorian gov is, wikileaks made the private message public, Equador got pissed and has now taken revenge against the US? Nobody cares about Britian? It's like a fucking comedy.
He continues with
"An April 2012 report out of UCLA provides further evidence that DNA determines intelligence, to a large extent"
And if you agree that intelligence is a large enabler of merit (I don't), then the connection between genes and meritocracy is blurred enough that you might be able to argue that good genes is correlated with more merit, or at least a larger potential for merit.
And they hate America and Jesus.