The Immigration Game Is Rigged

The conventional evidence points toward East Asia. PISA scores, technical education, disciplined students, and high incomes suggest that East Asian immigrants should be positioned to dominate economically. Jiang names that expectation so he can break it. The scoreboard is not wrong; it is incomplete Source trail 2:436:32 2018 the PISA is the program for international student assessment so every three years the OECD which is which is a national organization around the world they organize tests for 14 year olds in three subjects math scie...you actually look at american society and you look at who succeeds it turns out east asians don't do as well as you think they do well if these asians are the best students in school and they go on to the most prestigio... .

Corporate America rewards a different bundle of traits: aggression, risk tolerance, emotional intelligence, collaboration, and public argument. The habits that win the classroom can become weak signals in the boardroom. Obedience, focus, caution, and quiet competence produce grades and salaries; they do not necessarily produce command Lens point education-soul-game School success is not status when grades, obedience, technical competence, and respectable employment make a person useful inside another group's rules without giving that person command over the social game. Source trail 9:0010:30 the qualities of successful CEOs well first of all they tend to be aggressive okay or assertive okay another thing this is that they have high risk tolerance or they take chances also to navigate corporations you need h...to present your view your opinion very coherently okay so what's interesting is that the skills that you need to do well in the corporate boardroom um east asian men don't have and you can also argue that it's because e... .

The dating market is where the hidden status account becomes visible. Jiang's claim is not simply that some people are rejected online. It is that status is ultimately tested by mate access Source trail 11:5313:10 evidence bears this out especially okay the dating market okay so again remember what is it that men want to do well they want to obtain status so that they can find the most attractive mate okay so um we're going to no...Now what's interesting is that if you're an Asian male, okay, what's interesting is that people are less likely to respond to you, okay? So this is another map that shows statistics from the dating website, okay? So thi... . If East Asian men earn well but are less desired by both white women and, in some comparisons, Asian women, then income has not bought the thing the game promises.

The numbers are used as a provocation. East Asian women marry white men at much higher rates than East Asian men marry white women; young East Asian men are described as heavily single; one study is summarized as requiring an Asian man to earn about $200,000 to match the attractiveness of a white man earning about $62,000. The point is brutal: money exists, but status does not follow Source trail 14:4816:27 All right. So if you look at marriage patterns, there's also discrimination against East Asian men, okay? So 20 % of East Asian women will marry white guys. Okay, so if you are an East Asian woman, you are attracted to...So they did a lot of studies about the East, about the dating market in America, and the radical conclusion that they have is that, is this, okay? A white woman, okay, is more attracted to a white man than an Asian man.... .

This is why the lecture keeps returning to the phrase ' did everything right Source trail 17:41 So you have to be a surgeon, you have to be a top lawyer, you have to be an entrepreneur, in order to be attractive to just the average white woman, not even the most attractive white woman. So this is actually a pretty... .' Go to school, work hard, get the job, pay taxes, stay off welfare, avoid crime, contribute to the community. In ordinary civic language, that is success. In Jiang's game language, it is evidence that a group accepted the rules and still did not gain command Lens point game-theory-method Host-written rules trap players when obedience, school success, income, and civic respectability reward them inside a game whose rule-maker still controls status, power, talent flows, and the definition of winning. education-soul-game School success is not status when grades, obedience, technical competence, and respectable employment make a person useful inside another group's rules without giving that person command over the social game. Source trail 17:4120:06 So you have to be a surgeon, you have to be a top lawyer, you have to be an entrepreneur, in order to be attractive to just the average white woman, not even the most attractive white woman. So this is actually a pretty...All right, so you would think that East Asian men, Asian man will ultimately triumph in the end but what is really disconcerting is that according to game theory East Asian men are playing the game wrong whereas these o... .

The casino metaphor supplies the governing rule. If someone invites you to play his game, do not assume the game is fair. A fair casino would go bankrupt Lens point game-theory-method Host-written rules trap players when obedience, school success, income, and civic respectability reward them inside a game whose rule-maker still controls status, power, talent flows, and the definition of winning. Source trail 20:06 All right, so you would think that East Asian men, Asian man will ultimately triumph in the end but what is really disconcerting is that according to game theory East Asian men are playing the game wrong whereas these o... . A host country that invites immigrants to play by its rules has already written the rules in its own favor. The polite player loses because politeness is part of the machine Lens point game-theory-method Host-written rules trap players when obedience, school success, income, and civic respectability reward them inside a game whose rule-maker still controls status, power, talent flows, and the definition of winning. Source trail 21:29 otherwise they go out of business that same thing with immigration if a nation like the United States is inviting you into the nation and you play by their rules you will always lose okay and this is what's happening to... .

The disturbing conclusion is stated without softening: break the game, cheat Source trail 21:29 otherwise they go out of business that same thing with immigration if a nation like the United States is inviting you into the nation and you play by their rules you will always lose okay and this is what's happening to... . In this lecture that does not mean a private criminal plan. It means do not dissolve into the host's school-and-career script. Stay together, preserve religion, maintain language and culture, have many children, and let demographics change the rule-making population Source trail 25:1326:3128:05 In Sweden, one -fifth of the population will be Muslim. In the UK, 17%. In France, 17%. In Germany, 11%. In Italy, it will be 12%, okay? So it seems as though there's a population replacement going on. But not only that...And they're united because, quite honestly, the Europeans don't really like them. They are an outcast. They're considered an enemy by the Europeans. So if trends continue, then it is most likely that Muslims will contro... over time.

Muslims in Europe and Hispanics in America become Jiang's examples of groups that may have less school success or income but more demographic energy, cohesion, and religious-cultural unity. That does not make the future peaceful. The existing majority will see replacement, not pluralism Source trail 28:05 So that's it. According to game theory, if you're an immigrant, your best strategy is not to do it in school and make a lot of money. That will get you nowhere. You're just playing by the rules of the game. Your best st... , and will not simply step aside.

The lecture then goes deep in time to make replacement feel ordinary rather than exceptional. Farmers displace hunter-gatherers. Steppe pastoralists displace farmers. Men are killed, women are taken, elites replace elites. Peaceful fusion is not the rule in this model because only one elite can command the game at a time Source trail 31:46 a war that lasts 100 years, 20 years, in which the nomadic pastoralists, the Amnaya, or the Porto Indo -Europeans, they displaced, or they eliminated the farmers. Okay? And so what happened, we know this from genetic st... .

Modern immigration appears as an exception created by empire. Spain and Portugal conquer, enslave, convert, and extract. Britain and then the United States need settlers where there is land to occupy and native power to displace. The American welcome is not presented as universal generosity; it is a specific solution to a settler problem Source trail 36:24 The reason why is they needed to displace the natives. Okay? And then immigrants were then colonized. They were encouraged to go to Canada and Australia to build their economies as well. So in other words, immigration t... .

After World War II, America can tell Europe what the war meant. Closed society produced nationalism and fascism; open society produced American victory. Europe must become like America: multicultural, immigrant-welcoming, market-oriented, happy. This is not just advice. It is the rule export of the new hegemon Source trail 37:37 Okay? Now fast forward, and America becomes an empire because it's allowing all this energy to concentrate in America. You have World War II. You have World War II. And America triumphs in World War II. And now America... .

But Jiang says the game is not sustainable. If work hard, study, move to America, and become wealthy no longer guarantees status, then the attraction of the open game weakens. The future contest becomes explicit: demographic groups fight to set the rules because whoever sets the rules gets the jobs, status, women, power, and money Lens point game-theory-method Host-written rules trap players when obedience, school success, income, and civic respectability reward them inside a game whose rule-maker still controls status, power, talent flows, and the definition of winning. Source trail 38:4839:52 Okay? And that's why we have a situation where we have where now Muslims are going to Europe and others are going to America. Okay? And what we need to recognize is that immigration, it's a new game developed because of...Status, attractive woman, power, money. .

The real student question comes at the end: can anything be done about current immigration, or is there no agency left? Jiang's answer begins morally, not technocratically. Immigration is not natural for most people. What is natural is to build the community into which one is born; if everyone leaves for a better community, no community can exist Source trail 40:29 Okay. That's a great question. And I'm sure everyone's familiar with this question, which is like, what can we do about this situation? Well, I mean, the problem is, and I hate to say this, but immigration is not natura... .

Globalization, mass media, and the internet trained young people to think in terms of individual happiness and economic opportunity. American hegemony made that desire into a system: the best and brightest go to America because America wrote the rules and could extract talent from the world. Source trail 41:3342:33 And they're not going to be able to conform to the community. Okay? And historically, these people have been killed by the communities. And so it's natural for them to get up and leave. Okay? So, but that's only a small...then immigrate to the United States, and then start my own company, get rich, and all that. And you know, some people have been very successful in doing that. But if you think about it, this is not good for China. Right...

Now the world is changing. America is no longer the uncontested hegemon; Russia and China are rising; nations want to keep their human capital. Jiang folds his own biography into the argument: in North America he could make money, but not high status Source trail 43:2944:21 But now, the world is changing. America is not becoming, is no longer the global hegemon. Russia, China, these countries are rising as well. And so nations now are much more interested in being able to maintain their be...hard in school, I went to Yale, and I could have made a lot of money as a lawyer or as a doctor, but I recognized that, you know what, if I just stay where I am, I'm not going to ever achieve my potential. I'm not going... , so he left. The last turn returns to the opening wound. East Asian men in America may live decently, but if the status problem continues, their children inherit the marriage-market trap Source trail 45:18 But, if you're East Asian in America, I'm not saying for everyone, okay? I'm sure there are, like, thousands of very happy East Asians who've married very well and they have very good lives. Okay? But, for the majority,... .