March 24, 2006
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All the Girls She’s Rejected
A smart friend just sent over a link to this NYT op-ed: It’s about the growing gender imbalance in U.S. college admissions and how it’s making it harder and harder for capable women to get into the school they want. The writer is a college admissions officer — it’s a good read. (Cunning headline, too.)
Somebody needs to write a book about all the ways in which simple demographics is going to write the story of the 21st century. Witness the gender imbalance in China, the aging of Europe, much higher birth rates in conservative families, etc. Demography is destiny!
Posted March 24, 2006 at 10:14 | Comments (6) | Permasnark
File under: Briefly Noted, Society/Culture
File under: Briefly Noted, Society/Culture
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hey, who sent you that link on the higher birth rate in conservative families? I bet he's pretty smart too.
Actually I found that via my unyielding love of Foreign Policy magazine.
Robin: "I just can't quit you, Foreign Policy Magazine"
That Foreign Policy article on patriarchy reminds me of an even more awesome article by Ian Frazier that appeared last year in The New Yorker, about Genghis Khan.
The gist of both of them seems to be this: cities and advanced civilizations, with their culture, commerce, safety, and pluralism are wonderful things. But sooner or later, the barbarians will come to the gate, and with their axes, horses, draft animals, will either burn your cities to the ground or force you to open your gates, and two centuries from now, all of your children will look like them and speak their language.
When I was in high school, I had a formula for this (it was actually about European languages): "Sooner or later, everyone gets fucked by a Viking."
Tim, I'm betting that your formula ends up on a T-shirt within the month.
Yeah, I'm waiting for Busted Tees to get on that.
I have a new post on Short Schrift expanding on my earlier comment here. And read that Frazier article on the Mongols! It's unbelievably good.
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