Migrations and Cultures

Migrations And Cultures: A World View by Thomas Sowell, Basic Books, 1996. 

The Ubiquity of Inequality

Inequality ha been the norm throughout history and in every continent. Sowell documents that there has never been equality betweeeen different ethnic groups, whether within a single country, or between different countries.

Forms of Inequality

• professions they chose, their

• level of literacy, their

• ability to start busineesses,

• how much land they owned, the

• skills they had, the

• degree of intermarriage between immigrants and natives.

Main Ethnicities Discussed

• Germans,

• Japanese,

• Italians,

• Chinese

• Jews

• Indians