主题：美国WASP统治的衰落？ -- 晨枫

quite different from European catholics.

They often paid lip services to Roman instructions, but showed much respect to the pope. The percentage of Catholics that use condoms is not different from other protestants.

BTW, the dislike between protestants and Catholics are more subtle in New England. Both sides will share their "stories" with you on the dinner table only when you are really close to your American Catholic and protestant friends.

The inflow of Asian population, and rise of atheists or liberals allow Catholics and protestants to overcome their limited differences and start to embrace and tolerate each other--just like Chinese before the Japanese invasion. Before that, Chinese usually live in each regional communities and discriminate against each other (e.g., shanghai in 1930s). Then the Jap came and bombed and killed any Chinese no matter whichever is your regional accent.

So in the end, all kinds of Chinese with all kinds of accents finally gave up their regional bias against each other and formed the identity of "Chinese". In sum, foreign new threats help to calm the internal division. That's it.

犹太人的收入高是从欧洲中世纪就存在的现象。犹太人不准从事其他职业，只好经商--should be "finance/banking" only，再加上犹太人重视教育，犹太人的收入自然就高，不是现在才有的事。

--yes. They are EXTREMELY CARING about education. MUCH MORE THAN Chinese. Jewish students are my best students.

另外亚裔，犹太人重视教育，为美国其他种族树立了好榜样。他们创立的许多企业保证了美国在高科技领域的领先地位，并且创造了大量高收入工作，整个美国社会包括WASP都受益。

--ya, that's the benefits of 3E. The elite group needs to have long-term vision and tolerance: be capable of tolerating other minorities eating your jobs.

就美国的人口、资源、现在的国力来说，未来的几十年之内，是不会沦落到二流国家的。而且即使美国成为二流国家也不是什么特别的坏事。

--Then EuroAsia nations could not manage themselves and ended up in brutal wars again and created more big mess later.

比如荷兰，十七世纪是世界霸主，现在的国际政治影响几乎为零。但是现在荷兰人的生活水平幸福程度应该是远高于那时的。如果一百多年之后美国的情况和现在的荷兰类似，我觉得 WASP没有什么特别不满的。

--thumbs up for your smart vision.