June 2021
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Indian American survey (outmarriage rate)
From a survey of Indian Americans, the author notes that outmarriage is male-skewed among immigrants but balances among the native-born, that the 30 per cent rate is lower than expected,…
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Open Thread – 06/26/2021
Open thread for 26 June 2021, asking readers for books on the Mughals that can be found in the USA, and noting an appearance on Abhinav’s show.
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Eastern Y Chromosomes in the Indian subcontinent
The author notes that haplogroups C and F appear the only deeply rooted ‘eastern’ Y lineages in the subcontinent, asks about H among Adivasis, and compares the male-driven eastern Y…
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Open Thread – 06/19/2021 – Brown Pundits
What’s going on? Sweet-meat Islam is the best Islam.
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The Emergence of Chariot driven Warrior Aristocracy of the Bronze Age
An essay on the emergence of chariot-driven warrior aristocracy in the Bronze Age, with images of Indus horse figurines, Egyptian, Mycenaean and Hittite chariots and the Sanauli chariot; though most…
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Open Thread – 06/11/2021 – Brown Pundits
Open thread for 11 June 2021, opening with a paper on why East Asians but not South Asians are underrepresented in leadership positions in the United States.
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Guess values, Priors and Science
Prompted by a Wired piece on the 5-micron aerosol boundary, the author argues science was slow to accept airborne spread of Covid because of a flawed starting assumption, likening it…
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Yoga: do your thing my brownz
Quoting yoga teacher Jessamyn Stanley’s claim that white supremacy has polluted American yoga, the author reacts with exasperation, saying he is not Hindu but has seen yoga work as exercise,…
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White privilege, and how to get it
Citing an infographic showing Indian American women out-earning white men while Pakistani and Bangladeshi women earn less, the author attributes the Indian gap to human capital and asks how those…
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Stolen oppression
Reacting to a psychiatrist’s lecture about shooting white people, the author argues that educated, resourced brown Americans are not underprivileged, and claims most white Americans are worse off.
