The World Values Survey has a question about immigration policy with four options:
- Let anyone come
- As long as jobs available
- Strict limits
- Prohibit people from coming
I used WVS 2005-2008 from 57 countries first. Then I filled out the countries with the
Four-wave Aggregate of the Values Studies, the combined file of the four waves carried out by both the EVS and WVS. I bring this up because there are discrepancies between the two where there are duplications.
Again Vietnam is at the top of the list. Perhaps Will Wilkson should have picked another country to trade in his American citizenship with? In any case, results below.
The table is rather self-explanatory. The first four columns show the proportion sorted for the two most extreme positions, open borders vs. closed borders. In the fifth & sixth columns you see the result of my converting the categorical responses into ordinal values, so that 0 = open borders and 3 = closed borders, with the two moderate positions 1 & 2. So the higher values mean that the population more sympathetic to that closed than open borders. A uniform distribution would = 1.5. Finally, you also have the ratio between open and closed borders where the moderate positions are added to the extremes.
(Reprinted from Discover/GNXP by permission of author or representative)
Mr. Fitzpatrick: That doesn’t mean I’m going to stop being a good Catholic.
This seems easy enough to do if one is Catholic or Episcopalian. Over the last few years I have contemplated "faking" my Evangelical faith and going back into the fold so as to lessen the gulf between me and my pee...
When Charles Murray speaks of higher church attendance rate in the putative Belmont in contrast to Fishtown today
Pew 2007 - 2014
Evangelical -.9%
Mainline -3.4%
Catholic - 3.1%
If these trends continue he may have to revise.
i agree that the analogy to indian culture is misleading. it seems that the confucian ethos was one of cultural cultivation, to which one could aspire. the disciples of confucius came from a variety of positions in the ancient chinese class hierarchy. indian caste in contrast is rigidly hereditar...
When Charles Murray speaks of higher church attendance rate in the putative Belmont in contrast to Fishtown today, I don’t think he necessarily means that the elite denizens of Belmont are those of religious “populist enthusiasm.”
cross-cultural and general social science tends to suppo...
Are you aware of any literature that deals with the question I asked? It would seem to me that more than anything else, being able to answer my question would go very far in comforting the public about the safety of "suppression drives."
i’m so deep in the semantic tangles... whiggish/monotonic view of secularity in american life which is not empirically unchallengeable.Indeed! : )
that was the church at which they were present in services if they went, and it was the church of their family, and in jefferson’s case the chur...
I agree wholeheartedly about the privilege of knowledge over ethnic background in Confucianism, especially in comparison to the caste system in India. Confucianism, in the main, deals with social relationships between positions rather than lay down strictures about how the positions are to be att...
Would you, please, for my edification your understanding of “some affiliation”? I think I know what you are saying, but would like a more explicit explanation.
that was the church at which they were present in services if they went, and it was the church of their family, and in jefferson...
What kind of modeling/prediction mechanism (for the ecological equilibrium as such) is utilized when considering eradication of a complete species? And how high is the confidence level for such modeling?
you don’t need to suspect. this was a common and relatively open view among many enlightenment philosophs who were suspicious of populist ‘enthusiasms.’I did not refer to "enlightenment philosophs" who were "relatively open," but rather to European aristocrats whose private religious belief...
I'm glad to see you recognize the parallels between India and China. But I disagree that Confucius wanted to "restore caste," because he rarely talked about caste. I think ancient China privileged cultural knowledge far, far over ethnic background. From Confucius' words, it seems that he was spea...
Oh I'd have to dig back in time for this one. Chinese philosophy is not teleological, so you can't approach it the same way you would Western philosophy. There are numerous different "threads," and yet they are interwoven throughout imperial Chinese history. One doesn't end and then another begin...
True, GMO regulations play into the hands of Monsanto. But it has been a disaster for the technology and for those who believe biotech can play a major role in solving world problems.
As for unilateral action, it's entirely possible that a single lab might be able to unilaterally eliminate de...
despite some affiliation with the episcopal church to various degrees. washington and monroe are less certain overall.
A certain fuzzy agnosticism was always the comfortable thing about American Episcopalianism that attracted elites and social climbers. A great Bible and hymnbook along with v...
I would recommend Bryan Van Norden's _Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy_ (published by Hackett). It is in large part designed as a companion to the book _Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy_ (edited by Van Norden and Philip J. Ivanhoe, also published by Hackett), which is a collec...
My concern is that there is always something else filling the gap after gene drive. The final result might never be predictable.
I get the concern by observing `harmful' human tribes living north of Great wall. After Han dynasty successful eliminated Xiongnu, others tribes moved in to fill the...
Regarding Confucianism.
He (Confucius) believed that the only effective system of government necessitated prescribed relationships for each individual: "Let the ruler be a ruler and the subject a subject".
https://youtu.be/OG8Kves8CbI
Good example of ideal Confucius society is current...
Kevin states that "GMOs are a mess because they did none of these."
But actually GMOs are not a mess from the standpoint of large companies. They are extremely profitable because of the current extreme regulatory situation. Small companies and academics can't pay to get their GMO crops approve...
To be clear, they used very stringent barrier confinement - only one experimenter handled the flies to avoid miscommunication and mislabeling, flies were kept in nested boxes and anesthetized before they were opened, and all work was performed inside an ACL-2 mosquito facility.
The problem is t...
Not only is gene drive a natural phenomenon, it is ubiquitous. I would be extremely surprised if there are more than a handful of species lacking either an active gene drive element or the broken remnants of one somewhere in their genomes. This is mostly due to transposons, as the other mechani...
Razib finally posts something I understand.
No, wait... If he posted it, clearly I haven't thought enough about this and am missing the point. Foiled again!
Worse, it could be a honey trap. Anyone who comments on this is automatically banned. Rats!
My suspicion is that at least some, perhaps many, American elites of that time, as were the aristocrats of European states of the same
you don't need to suspect. this was a common and relatively open view among many enlightenment philosophs who were suspicious of populist 'enthusiasms.'
So I ...
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