Migrations and Cultures: A World View Audiobook

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• “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…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.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “To future generations, the late twentieth century may come to be known as the time of the DPs: Displaced Persons. Migration and refugeeism are raising inflammatory issues from unified Germany to the Tex-Mex border. Into this whirlpool of half-truths, sermons, prejudices, and fears dives Hoover Institution economist and syndicated columnist Thomas Sowell. It is not necessary to agree with all of Sowell’s views to admire his imposing attempt to arrive at a theory of migration and culture. Or to succumb to his fascinating tales of how immigrants from Germany, Japan, China, and other countries have coped—and excelled—on strange new shores.”

  — Amazon.com Review

• “Interesting insights abound…comprehensive and detailed.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “Thomas Sowell is not only one of the most prolific intellectuals writing today, he remains one of the most insightful…While some social scientists battle endlessly over whether racism or race itself explains differences in achievement between groups, Sowell offers a more subtle and convincing argument for the importance of skills.”

  — Linda Chavez, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity

• “Thomas Sowell has done it again…This is a vital contribution to a debate that has been framed far too narrowly.”

  — Donald L. Horowitz, Duke University School of Law

• “Sowell is one of the wonders of the American intellectual world and this book once again illustrates why.”

  — Peter Brimelow, author of Alien Nation