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Delusional arguments. Out of the richest 1000 Americans how many are blacks? 1? 2? And what's the % like in prisons? Wasn't Oprah the only black billionaire in US like for a decade? US attracts talents because there's much more money in US than elsewhere and the political and bureaucratic environment favors entrepreneurship. Please quit lecturing people around the world bantering a moral ground you don't have.

> US attracts talents because there's much more money in US than elsewhere and the political and bureaucratic environment favors entrepreneurship. I agree. The attitude towards immigrants doesn't seem to affect how well they do anyway. The opportunities matter much more than anything else.

The US has long had permissive immigration policy relative to Europe and that is absolutely one of the largest factors in America's dominance in industry and that immigration policy is a product of attitude towards immigrants. This is true historically - explaining dominance in the 20th century - and in modern tech, capital flows to where it can most effectively leverage high-skilled technical labor and that was the almost exclusively the United States until very recently.

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so don't track race, but track location of birth, location of birth of parents (and grandparents) and all their respective native languages and local language capacity. in europe most of that should correlate with the questions we want to answer since there shouldn't be many immigrants that have been here for more than a few generations and speaking the local language fluently. those who have been here longer should…

> in the US that wouldn't work because discrimination happens despite people having been there for many generations all speaking fluent english. Is there not discrimination against black people in Europe? Might be hard to tell considering that the designation isn't even recorded. The only other large minority racial group I can think of there is Arabs, but most of them migrated very recently.

Is there not discrimination against black people in Europe?

there is. my point is that you can discover them by tracking their origin and language. no need to track their race. it's extremely rare that any have been living in europe for more than two, maybe three generations (maybe a bit less rare in france, belgium, netherlands due to their colonies).

EDIT: the guardian article actually touches on that and argues that migration background is being tracked, but doesn't work, but if i understand it correctly, they don't track previous generations.

but anyways, my suggestion is just a hack on the current law. what we really need to focus on is identifying factors that lead to discrimination and statistically track them. skin color is such a factor. if the law prevents that, then and we can't find another way to solve the problem, then maybe it should be changed.

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