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PeraclesPlease — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 12:00:00 +0000

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Idunno, seems like more cultural cheerleading than defined fact finding. I'd guess American uni's do well because 1) we control the publications doing more of the ranking, 2) we've got more money, 3) the mentality is less restrictive in exploring new ideas than say some of the prominent European schools. Of course high demands create some luxuries too. I can name some possible benefits to a diverse campus (I noticed this at the time), but I can't really say that's what made them "great", though if you're part of the diversity cohort, certainly that's better than simply being shut out.

And the diversity bit on military - again, a wish hoping for a justification. I don't recall homogenous Japanese and German and Russian armies being too slovenly or ineffective. Consider the Russians made it all the way from Moscow and Volgograd to Berlin - 2800km - in the time it took us to cross the channel and move a third the distance. And then we've been stuck in Afghanistan since 2001 with our supposedly uber-effective diverse forces trying to train the natives to take over for us - fat chance. Vietnam went well, right? How long & how much effort did it take to defeat ISIS sitting open out in the desert?

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artappraiser — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 08:50:41 +0000

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Individualism, that core American value, can also make institutions stronger in the long run. Instead of expecting everyone to simply know their place and follow the rules, organizations have to explicitly take their members’ unique backgrounds into account. American institutions such as public schools, universities, corporations, cities and the military have developed both official mechanisms and deep institutional cultures designed to recognize and make use of their members’ unique strengths.

And they seem to be stronger for making the effort. The U.S. has the world’s best universities, in large part because of an inflow of talented faculty and students from around the globe. Its companies are the highly profitable in the globalized age, in part because of their ability to leverage diverse workers and sell to diverse customers. Throughout its history, the U.S. military has drawn its strength from its ability to integrate diverse populations of soldiers — it remains the world’s strongest, even as more homogeneous rivals like Russia have suffered from manpower shortages. And most of the country’s big cities are thriving, especially those like New York, Houston and San Diego that have been invigorated by immigration.

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