**Ethnicity in the US. **Rudyard has convinced me that British Isles descendants are the majority ethnic group in the US. [Leave aside the fact that Irish people tend to recoil at the English (and any wayward Scots-Irish, Scots, and/or Welsh) identifying with this: 🇬🇧.] What does this mean? If over a third of this overall group is vehemently anti-English (Irish), and almost a quarter of this overall group is so disconnected from its “Englishness” (or, worse, “Britishness”) as to refuse to claim it…? The English language and a government established by people of English descent (but who were evidently not terribly concerned by their own ethnicity)? Most Americans seem to be comfortable with one another regardless of perceptible differences in ethnic descent. Discomfort seems to arise with perceptible differences in culture. Perhaps I’m naive, but it seems like strong (non-American) accents, or even more so styles of dress suggestive of lower-class subculture (as well as smelling of cigarettes or weed), are the things that make the typical Middle Class White Native-Born American uncomfortable. All of this is not to ignore the outsized influence that so many people of British Isle, and especially English, descent, have had, and likely continue to have, upon this great State-Nation of ours. But it just feels inadequate as a defining ethnicity. Probably the people who checked the “American” box in that year 2000 survey were onto something.

Does Peter Thiel request or demand a sort of regular “sync” or “demo” meeting for all of the fellows to whom he’s given money?

Never seemed liked it was charity. Most creditors are pretty harsh. Just wondering.

**And Yet………………………………………..

All I REALLY Want For Christmas, Even More Than The Peter Zeihan Thing, Is For Peter Thiel To Establish An Older Adult Version Of His Thiel Fellowship, With Which He Pays Tuition For Promising Late 30s/Early 40s Individuals To Obtain Degrees In Some Field He Thinks Is Necessary For Future Human Prosperity**
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I mean, I can study. I can work. I can come up with ideas sometimes. Pls.
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Just because some ppl had substance abuse problems around the time we should have been studying for the SATs, and just because some people were hungover/possibly still drunk the one and only time we took the SATs…does that mean I need to work at like an F’ing Amazon warehouse for the rest of my life or something? I mean, I have an IT cert. I can get more…Or I can go to med school or something? Mi familia…………..

All I Want For Christmas Is For Peter Zeihan To Join Pearl/Whatifalthist

Should he ever decide to stop flying to a new exotic filming location every 2-3 days, it would be amazing to interact with him and ask him certain super-specific geopolitical questions that are of relevance to me. Such as:

Why is the U.S. supposedly in such a good position, when the UK has a birth rate so close as to be a rounding error?

ON: THE “CUTTING EDGE OF CULTURE” (CEoC)

I am…..an…….old Man (relatively?). Scholars may debate where I belong: Late (late stage/terminal?) Gen X? Or early (pre-metastatic) Millennial? I was once at the cutting edge of culture (CEoC). I can provide an exhaustive list of sources if you need it.
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Where do You (as a presumptive member of “Gen Z”) go for the cutting edge of culture (CEoC)? Or, if the cutting-edge of culture (CEoC) is of little interest to you, where do those in your generation who care primarily about the cutting edge of culture (CEoC) go?
(This is an intergenerational SOS)
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btw. I tried to sign in with my old account and somehow ended up here with an apparent new name, that, fortuitously, better reflects my mixed Hispanic/Batman genealogy/identification.
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