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Migrations and cultures: a world view

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Basic Books 1996 New YorkDescription: xii, 516 p. Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN:
  • 9780465045891
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.82 S6M4
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.” 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? https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/thomas-sowell/migrations-and-cultures/9780465045891/
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Table of Contents

1. Migration patterns
2. Germans around the world
3. Japanese around the world
4. Italians around the world
5. The overseas Chinese
6. Jews of the diaspora
7. The overseas Indians
8. History and cultures.

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.” 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?

https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/thomas-sowell/migrations-and-cultures/9780465045891/

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