Amy Chua - Diversity as Strategic Asset

Author of the book "Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance - and Why They Fall," Yale Law School professor Amy Chua talks about diversity as a strategic national asset in the latest IdeaFestival Conversation.

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[vivspring]

@KYUNGILNAM well i can understand, even the Han themselves don't want to be under their government. a good example would be hong kong and and taiwan which is populated by Han. I'm also a han chinese who migrated long time ago. because of the corrupt government but things do look better now in china compared to the Mao era. hope things do get better in the future

[KYUNGILNAM]

@vivspring it depends. i hope there is racial harmony in china. but actually the conflictive elements are suppressed or hidden. one of my friend (who does not belong to han) wants independance. i was surprised though.

[vivspring]

@KYUNGILNAM true, more often than not, it brings instability

[vivspring]

@KYUNGILNAM nope. a friend of mine is Hui. she loves china and enjoys all the benefits being a minority. when i talked about the racial difference in china. she is puzzled. she says whether Hui, Han, or Manchu, we are all chinese.

[KYUNGILNAM]

China is controlled by Han people. That is the reason why xinjiang and tibet people revolt.

[KYUNGILNAM]

@vivspring i simply say that her theory does not make sense in relation to diversity, although i like diversity. what i mean is that diversity does not necessarily secure sussessful results. sometimes it brings confusion.

[KYUNGILNAM]

@vivspring well, probably you belonged to han people or prefer them. i was talking to different races of china. they think differently from you.

[vivspring]

@KYUNGILNAM China is not controlled by Han. It is just overpopulated by Han. To balance the population, the Chinese government exclude the minorities from one child policy and gave them extra merit for universities and many others.

[vivspring]

@KYUNGILNAM nope. Tang china(which is one of the examples she used in her book) is cosmopolitan and opened to all races. Arabs and Persian travelers went to China through the silk road and most of them stayed. Today you can find them as one of the minorities called the Hui. during the Tang dynasty itself, some of the official ranks are taken by the Arabian. this cosmopolitan policy adopted by the Tang chinese was one of the reasons why it was a superpower at the time

[vivspring]

@doczg88 no. America became superpower then, because the rest of the world was in chaos at the time. then America prospered and has the advantage of being the center of attraction for the best mind. and NO, america's achievement today is not only because of whites. its because it has attracted the best minds from all over the world. and now that the rest of the world is healing and rising, US is no longer the only superpower.