Around the World in 80 Ways: Affirmative Action Around the World (Hi-Res)

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  • In the United States, affirmative action policies, first implemented to address the historical grievances of black Americans, have long been controversial. But the debate over affirmative action has generally ignored such action as practiced by other countries around the world. Has affirmative action proven to be more or less effective in other countries? What common patterns do these programs share? How can the study of these programs help our understanding of affirmative action in America?
    Published originally on September 11, 2008 - • Around the World in 80... .
    Republished here at a higher resolution.

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  • @visiontransformation
    @visiontransformation 3 ปีที่แล้ว +102

    When was this first aired?

    • @petonovy
      @petonovy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Book came out in 2004 so soon after that

    • @jemccoy7246
      @jemccoy7246 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Peter looks about 17 years old.

    • @PP266
      @PP266 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      May 2004.

    • @k14pc
      @k14pc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      that book released in 2004 so i guess around then

    • @alexlocatelli2876
      @alexlocatelli2876 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Looks like at least 15-20 years ago, Robinson looks quite young. As for Dr. Sowell he never ages, so it's difficult to make an estimate. 😎

  • @johnnguyen8521
    @johnnguyen8521 3 ปีที่แล้ว +193

    This man woke me up from my liberal slumber. Thank you Thomas Sowell.

    • @cjohns1117
      @cjohns1117 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      He did the exact same thing for me

  • @duncanw9901
    @duncanw9901 3 ปีที่แล้ว +138

    "They'll probably be expecting that [affirmitive action will be temporary] 25 years from now"
    -Thomas Sowell, roughly 25 years ago.

  • @ransakreject5221
    @ransakreject5221 2 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    Got in 96 percentile in Math.
    My black friend (who got 80% percentile) and who literally lived next door. And who had 2 parents & way more money than me with a single mom raising me.
    He got a full ride scholarship & I got nothing.
    We were on the same wrestling team & I was a 2x sectional champ and state finalist. He has a 500 record.
    We live in the north & i have no ancestor that was anywhere near slavery.
    My grandparents were all in Ireland

  • @anthonychaffeemd
    @anthonychaffeemd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    Professor Sowell is the most brilliant and well developed thinker that America has ever produced. Hands down.

    • @Zepllica
      @Zepllica 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Hands down. Agreed.

  • @TheFirstTriplefife
    @TheFirstTriplefife 3 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    I lost out on a job due to affirmative action. I found out later from people I had worked with that the only reason they hired the lady they did hire was because she was Mexican. The lady couldn't handle her duties, she was a new hire and she could barely speak any English.
    It really hurt at the time because I had just gotten married and need the full time hours. To bad though. Apparently they needed more diversity more than they needed a good worker.

    • @frankharrington8528
      @frankharrington8528 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Ireland, is commencing this now in the public service. Ireland owes nothing to any foreigner as they were used and abused by the British for 800 years. Blacks, browns and yellow skinned have been pushed onto a homogenous population.

  • @abhcoat
    @abhcoat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +178

    Dr. Sowell is a national treasure.

    • @TonyHogan
      @TonyHogan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Many should know his works but they won't educate about him.

    • @thegameschanged1248
      @thegameschanged1248 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I would love to see Thomas Sowell debate the squad

    • @leemartin9579
      @leemartin9579 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Absolutely!

  • @etiennem.3191
    @etiennem.3191 3 ปีที่แล้ว +125

    "If you confine yourself to the united states that may sound plausible, that is the very reason i did a worldwide study.". Seems to me that there is not enough room in the world to hide truth from Thomas Sowell. Thank you.

  • @skeptigal8899
    @skeptigal8899 2 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Thomas Sowell always speaks the unvarnished truth.

  • @jbisntme
    @jbisntme 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    It cannot be overstated how brilliant Mr. Sowell really is.

  • @FirstSuiGeneris
    @FirstSuiGeneris 3 ปีที่แล้ว +133

    Thomas Sowell is a national treasure! Thomas Sowell knowledge should be taught in every classroom, no matter what grade level.

    • @jimfischione2743
      @jimfischione2743 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Agreed. Too bad even intelligent people ignore him.

    • @Kunfucious577
      @Kunfucious577 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Hes a genius. I have a theory that what makes a person intelligent is the ability to simplify things. He breaks everything down so well that i end every video thinking why i didnt know this already.

  • @elsenored562
    @elsenored562 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    23:30 Sowell: There's no political payoff for looking at the facts.
    24:17 Graduation is what it's about: it's not about being on campus so the administration can gush about diversity.

  • @logic_matters
    @logic_matters 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    Come to South Africa, and see how AA demolished our national power supplier, our railroads, our industries, our government... Basically, and I'm not exaggerating, EVERYTHING.

    • @frankharrington8528
      @frankharrington8528 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Not only South Africa. Look at all of Africa. All their leaders are not fit for purpose. They're corrupt and useless. Since the Colonialists left, the indigenous aren't capable of managing those countries. God help South Africa and Rhodesia. The natives showed themselves up for what they are.

    • @NathansHVAC
      @NathansHVAC 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Is south africa going to try socialism?

  • @kham6006
    @kham6006 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I watched one of Thomas’s last videos and he said if Biden became president this country was doomed , it scared me and he was correct,, would love to hear what he thinks now

  • @elsenored562
    @elsenored562 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    2:09 India
    6:04 Malaysia
    11:11 Sri Lanka
    15:55 United States

  • @tjaartvanderwalt8461
    @tjaartvanderwalt8461 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Please send this brilliant man to South Africa to share his knowledge in person. Our nation is going down the tubes...

  • @masoudsarvin6117
    @masoudsarvin6117 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    A nation with such luminaries as Thomas Sowell, Milton Friedman, Victor Davis Hanson, etc, shall always be the beacon of freedom to all people.
    "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"
    Thank you all, most sincerely. 🙏🏽

  • @benharrell3002
    @benharrell3002 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    The weather in Houston has been awful for over a week. It’s a nice treat to have some more footage of Dr.Sowell uploaded today.

  • @Kunfucious577
    @Kunfucious577 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I love these interviews with sowell and fear the day this man retires.

    • @sudansoudah8070
      @sudansoudah8070 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He's now 92 yrs old and retired

  • @e.g.7612
    @e.g.7612 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Finding a new sowell video makes my day.

  • @paulosoares7034
    @paulosoares7034 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    A brilliant mind ... Thomas Sowell.

  • @grahamt5924
    @grahamt5924 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Affirmative action ended up ethnically cleansing Zimbabwe and South Africa is now doing the same thing.

  • @benlloyd2223
    @benlloyd2223 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Someone needs to identify and upload all the classic Uncommon Knowledge episodes

  • @stevenator0281
    @stevenator0281 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The man is a National Treasure.

  • @lexle6203
    @lexle6203 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Sowell is a legend.

  • @pepperorchid
    @pepperorchid 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Thomas Sowell is one of the most attractive men in the world.

  • @SalivationNation
    @SalivationNation 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Oh boy, another Sowell vid I can add to my Thomas Sowell playlist of over 150 vids!

  • @johnfuzz704
    @johnfuzz704 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    GOAT Thomas Sowell

    • @johngilmore6688
      @johngilmore6688 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sorry mate, but anyone listening to this articulate educated man, would conclude that YOU are the GOAT, John Fuzz.

    • @filianablanxart8305
      @filianablanxart8305 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      John Fuzz is using GOAT in the 2021 popular culture context of an abbreviation/ acronym of Greatest Of All Time .
      In this context , GOAT ( in all capitals ) is a very high complement .

  • @jimluebke3869
    @jimluebke3869 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    More Thomas Sowell, please. =)

  • @purpleivory2
    @purpleivory2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My favorite Sowell book. Brilliant!

  • @kevinnyamai7263
    @kevinnyamai7263 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    With the untouchables in India ,affirmative action only exacerbated the hate/violence against the Dalitts that was existent based on the Indian Caste system

  • @MCR1565
    @MCR1565 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    A classic! Great interview!

  • @rocco1267
    @rocco1267 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Uncommon Knowledge has great guests but Peter Robinson is an outstanding host! Proud to have had worked as a builder at Stanford University to include the courtyard of the Hoover Tower. Did not know then what kind of amazing thinkers were inside this institution.

  • @bharathj9540
    @bharathj9540 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Such insightful book and interview. Thank you.

  • @BullittGT40
    @BullittGT40 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thomas Sowell is a great American and a brilliant individual that does not get enough recognition regardless of race, color, or any other nonsense.

  • @movableorigins4194
    @movableorigins4194 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    He should be made supreme leader of the United States, for life and and the position to be diminished after him. This will solve your problems out there!

    • @pragavirtual
      @pragavirtual 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      If all problem got solved, you dont need politicians anymore.

  • @ryssery
    @ryssery 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    If you click on "SHOW MORE" you will see that it was originally aired on September 11, 2008

  • @aaronlim7324
    @aaronlim7324 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Thomas Sowell is absolutely accurate about affirmative action policies in Malaysia 🇲🇾.

  • @geraldgroulx6937
    @geraldgroulx6937 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Are there any more gems like this that we can unearth? Sowell is such a learned and convincing individual. He should have been an advisor to every administration that has existed in his lifetime. Robinson has an interviewing style that keeps a tight focus on the subject at hand. His interviews are compelling and they keep the interview moving along. He knows when to respectfully "jump in" to elucidate a term, acronym or expression that might otherwise go over the head of (frankly) people like me.

  • @1234abcd...
    @1234abcd... 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great interview thank you.

  • @chefpreme3602
    @chefpreme3602 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The man, the myth, the legend

  • @Milos.L
    @Milos.L 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is awesome, thanks you!

  • @rcook.4781
    @rcook.4781 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice upgrade on this video--you know your audience well! Thank you!

  • @nitinnahar7801
    @nitinnahar7801 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    In India this has gotten so bad, that every group even if historically affluent is violently agitating to qualify for affirmative action. STEM seats are subject to 50% reservation. This is leading to our best and brightest either being left behind, or moving out of the country.

    • @ransakreject5221
      @ransakreject5221 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Look forward to getting surgery performed by a doctor that didn’t qualify
      For medical school on his merits.
      Airlines even have AA programs in hiring pilots now. The train is gonna become popular again when they start crashing

  • @patriciakimball8150
    @patriciakimball8150 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You guys are terrific.

  • @visiontransformation
    @visiontransformation 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Is the full uncut interview available?

  • @kingcrazymani4133
    @kingcrazymani4133 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thanks for digging this one out of archives. 23:00. Mr. Sowell articulates the once common sense notion of the role of elected public servants better than I have heard in 20 years. And, of course was early enough and right about elected officials’ taking a policy that was widely recognized as a failure and rolling it over instead of trying something else. A real counterpoint to another video I saw this am from Hoover of Bill Buckley’s interview of JK Gall-bwraith. Ouch.

  • @riowanaha1946
    @riowanaha1946 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Woww this is classic. Thank you

  • @alexmentes1348
    @alexmentes1348 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The book they are discussing was published in 2004. This is an old interview

  • @elingrome5853
    @elingrome5853 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This man is ridicuously wise

  • @garrettchristensen8074
    @garrettchristensen8074 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Why isn't he profiled on mainstream media. Never mind😵😵

  • @Rogerholberg
    @Rogerholberg 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I believe that Brennan said that, although neither the words of the Civil Rights Act nor its legislative history would allow the affirmative discrimination at issue in the Weber case, the "spirit" of the law did. I must have missed the day in law school where courts would even try to ascertain the "spirit" of a law let alone allow the "spirit" to override the express wording and legislative history of a statute.

  • @loobkooblai3591
    @loobkooblai3591 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This video was uploaded 23 minutes ago.

  • @donnyboon2896
    @donnyboon2896 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    May Thomas Sowell be studied for centuries. 🙏

  • @hubristicmystic
    @hubristicmystic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Is there a chapter in the book on New Zealand? We invented affirmative action systemic racism. Wonderful interview thank you

    • @sudansoudah8070
      @sudansoudah8070 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I thought South Afrika was going to be their first example

  • @mrniceguy7168
    @mrniceguy7168 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a pleasant surprise

  • @kevt9189
    @kevt9189 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    There is no political pay off to look at the facts classic Sowell

  • @t.lloydrobertson8325
    @t.lloydrobertson8325 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I Admire this Fellow Trememdously.. Bigly So.

  • @thanksfernuthin
    @thanksfernuthin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Twenty five years from then... OVER twenty five years from then and this racist policy is still in place... and growing exponentially.

  • @CiscoZero
    @CiscoZero 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    No way!!! A younger Peter Robinson!

  • @grahamcombs4752
    @grahamcombs4752 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Not long ago I spoke with a young woman, an engineer at a German-owned firm in Troy, MI, who grew up in Bangladesh. I noted an "auto-rosary" on the rearview mirror in her car and she said was Catholic. I asked how many Catholics there are in that country, she said about a half a million (out of, I believe, over 150 million ). I was stunned. Then she said this. The Muslim elites send their children to Catholic schools. I was really stunned (and I had been the sole non-Catholic graduate of a Catholic school myself). In this country, at least when I graduated from Bishop Foley HS in 1970, Catholic schools were still for the working classes; that included this son of Hazard, KY parents. My father's father was a coal miner. Now my old school is $11,000 a year, not a few hundred dollars, and over 1/3 are non-Catholic and the students, Catholic and non-Catholic, are more likely to be the children of Ford executives. Affirmative action cannot overcome culture. I connected strongly with J.D. Vance and his elegy for my people. His book was praised, the film was not. Words are one thing, images another. As Dr. Sowell knows, there is a parallel black culture. America is a tragic country, and increasingly an absent-minded and reckless one.

  • @ClementPoh
    @ClementPoh 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Singapore vs Malaysia... Enough said 😝

  • @travisstotts1107
    @travisstotts1107 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    To bad young blacks look up to biggie smalls instead of this great man

  • @tommypain
    @tommypain 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It would be very helpful if you posted the dates of these old recordings, so the viewers would be able to put that into the context of the dialogue.

    • @ELee-zv5ud
      @ELee-zv5ud 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Look in the Show more, that is where extra info is placed.

    • @karlseastrand7678
      @karlseastrand7678 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      They did. Read the words posted under the video.

  • @blacksocrates1
    @blacksocrates1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I am not sure how thomas sowell works can exist and yet there is still an adherence to failed policies that is meant to promote equality. But then again, there is perhaps no limit to human imagination; therefore, no limit to bad ideas

  • @thenewmayorofcrazytown7392
    @thenewmayorofcrazytown7392 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow they look so young

  • @extendedclips
    @extendedclips 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    👏🏽✨ 📚

  • @GilesMcRiker
    @GilesMcRiker 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thomas Sowetill still very relevant in July 2023

  • @Inwoodarts
    @Inwoodarts 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Our own American beloved philosopher.. focused on reawakening our society's common sense, critical thinking + rational inquiry. Politik irrelevant .

  • @shaneemanuelle6243
    @shaneemanuelle6243 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    When was this interview conducted? Seems it could be 15 years old.

    • @luisaguilar4286
      @luisaguilar4286 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Originally published on sept 11, 2008. This is a higher resolution re-upload.

    • @guermouchemarouane5116
      @guermouchemarouane5116 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      2008 mate it was recorded

  • @mikeissweet
    @mikeissweet 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Was this filmed recently?

    • @HooverInstitution
      @HooverInstitution  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Published originally on September 11, 2008 - th-cam.com/video/99CYQRtEGMw/w-d-xo.html.
      Republished here at a higher resolution.

    • @mikeissweet
      @mikeissweet 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@HooverInstitution Thanks Hoover!

  • @jakebarnes28
    @jakebarnes28 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    "Effective" vs. Moral "right and wrong".
    How does a nation adjudicate a crime for which there is no recompense?

  • @ivanandreevich8568
    @ivanandreevich8568 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Was this filmed 25 years ago yet?

  • @kathygill5714
    @kathygill5714 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thomas Sowell for President

  • @giovannipisapia6618
    @giovannipisapia6618 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    South Africa?

    • @craftycraff7938
      @craftycraff7938 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Do you even need to ask?

    • @bdcycling1528
      @bdcycling1528 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Walter Williams

    • @anthonychaffeemd
      @anthonychaffeemd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Walter Williams has written extensively on South Africa

    • @dougstevens1877
      @dougstevens1877 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yep.. just ignore South Africa where 8 percent of the population are forced to affirmatively defer to the other 92 percent.... and a large segment of that majority are from neighbouring countries like Zimbabwe and as far north as Somalia. South Africa probably has the largest and most useless civil service compared to the tax base of any other country in the world.

  • @basics1007
    @basics1007 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Overturned eventually!

  • @jakebarnes28
    @jakebarnes28 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    If you don't like something, you can find reasons to justify your dislike.

  • @Sheeshening
    @Sheeshening 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    TS uberchad

  • @hegel5816
    @hegel5816 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    India has one of most successful affirmative action programs...
    Through affirmative action people(majority) who were historically denied education could get college degrees and when India changed its policy from socialism to liberalism in 1991 India could afford more employees for the MNCs and that’s how Indians became more techie people...😂...
    Within 30 years 400-500 million Indians were brought out of poverty...

  • @user-tj9bg6tz2p
    @user-tj9bg6tz2p 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    it's malays, not maylays

  • @sw.7519
    @sw.7519 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    You should help weaker persons. This is our cultural Christian DNA. What you should not do put the weakest persons before the majority. This will corrupt the whole system. Since the weak will fear a right to be above the needs of majority. They will develop better and become the mass not being able to sustain the society. It is a Ambivalenz.

  • @anandkapdi4822
    @anandkapdi4822 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sad to say but Dr. Sowell don't know about affirmative action in India as well as he should before making these remarks

    • @davidyetter5409
      @davidyetter5409 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      My guess is that he most likely knows it better than you. He's studied it from an outside perspective, weighed the pro's and con's and verified the facts. Most likely he's traveled there for first hand information. He doesn't take the jaded interpretations of government historians shading the truth.

  • @dewetmaartens359
    @dewetmaartens359 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Has ruined South Africa!