June 10, 2008

Norm Matloff On The Lies Of Immigration Lawyers

From Norm Matloff's H-1B/L-1/offshoring e-newsletter

Norm Matloff writes:

Immigration Daily, a publication for immigration lawyers, runs several times a week on the Internet. It contains the latest news on immigration legislation and litigation, and claims 17,000+ subscribers.

Same Old, Same Old--"Model Minority" Unfair To Asian Doctors, Mathematicians, Dentists And Professors

The NYT runs another hard-hitting, informative article conveniently accumulating in one place all the cliches I've been reading for the last 30 years about how the "Model Minority Stereotype" is actually unfair to Asian Americans.

Report Takes Aim at ‘Model Minority’ Stereotype of Asian-American Students

"Uncle Barack's Cabin" Kerfuffle In Germany

The Nineteenth Century novel and play Uncle Tom's Cabin is better known in Germany than you might think--there's a subway station in Berlin called Onkel Toms Hütte, and when the novel came out it was as popular in Germany as it was in the rest of the world.

NYT: Gay Marriages Are Just Plain Better Than That Other, More Unequal, And All-Around Yuckier Kind Of Marriage

Here's a classic article from the Health section of the New York Times tonight:

Gay Unions Shed Light on Gender in Marriage

By TARA PARKER-POPE

For insights into healthy marriages, social scientists are looking in an unexpected place.

More College Grads = Dumber College Grads

The annual General Social Survey of a representative sample of Americans includes a 10 question vocabulary test, which correlates with IQ tests at the 0.7 level. Inductivist finds that recent college graduates had lousier vocabularies than previous college graduates, as scored on an IQ like scale where 100 is the average and 15 is the standard deviation.