PS: "Double helix in the sky tonight.
Throw out the hardware, let's do it right."

I just went and listened to Aja, Tarheel. That almost 4 min. long instrumental could go on for 10 more minutes! Good evening.

PS
Chinese music under banyan trees
Here at the dude ranch above the sea
Aja
When all my dime dancin' is through
I run to you

PS: "Wang Dang Doodle?"

I was not familiar with it, but the www says it's an old blues standard by Willy Dixon. I will go and listen to it. Thanks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acTwO6lo0CY

OK, it's decent but not a great blues number from my first listen - too much of the same, over and over.

Thanks for writing in, Ben. It's sure been a while!

PS Wang Dang Doodle?

PS

Speaking of Sailer and Arcadia:

https://www.unz.com/isteve/isteve-open-thread-24/#comment-7616531

PS: I should add, Mr. Hail, that it was too separate points, one that I had heard of Arcadia - met a guy hiking in the San Gabriel Mountains who gave me his info after we'd talked for half an hour about trails and such. (yes, White guy, of course, cause, hiking, haha!) No, I never got back with him.

The other was about the guy from Monterrey Park.

"What's so bad about this? In general, most Asians are not public-spirited people most of the time, and some can be outright big negatives to the social fabric by undermining public trust and the spirit of "the commons" so central to the way we see the world. When they're present in enough numbers, this will happen."

Indeed that goes along somewhat with my next post, specifically that these Chinese people do appreciate the commons that the White people built, if only subconsciously... but I'll get to that in the post.


"A lot of good commentary came out of the anti-Vivek Ramaswamy backlash when he slammed White culture for not cramming for tests long enough, like he says he did. A lot of the best commentary was to the effect of, This guy doesn't have a clue what White-Western civilization is, what America is, how things work, nothing. He may be high-IQ and transnational and all, but he's mentally a provincial."

Yes, that brought as all to realize some things that Mr. Steve Sailer did write about, probably many years beforehand. I only remember one or two instances of his discussing the Tiger Mom, test-cramming, after-school-schooling business that White people understand is not the best life and maybe not good preparation for life itself... unless you live in, say... China.

PS: "To say Arcadia was known for having lots of Asians back already in the 1980s is not quire right."

No, not Arcadia, but Monterrey Park. Even IT was only 30-something %, but basically, this guy told me he lived among Chinese people.

PS: Yes, the Foodies. I wrote a post about them long ago, with the non necessarily accurate (for all of them) assumption that they are fine with destroying the country, so long as "you can FINALLY find some good Ghanan food in Cedar Rapids!"

"The Stupidity of the Foodies"

http://www.peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=719

Excerpt:

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Finally to the point, I believe that, though not the primary driver of it, these ever-growing-in-number Foodies are part of the pro-immigration crowd. No, they don't understand that probably Americans could make this same stuff - there is the internet and all with its millions of youtube videos on how to make and do about any damn thing one can thing of. That's no good, I guess. Yes, what I'm saying is that the Foodies care so much about what their next meal out will be, that they are willing to put up with an invasion of the whole 3rd world in order to have enough places to get authentic cuisine. How selfish is this kind of shit?!

This is not some kind of overarching theory of how America got to the sorry state we're in with respect to large-scale immigration. I've already got that pretty much figured out. (This post makes 95 posts with the Immigration Stupidity topic key! Check 'em out.) This is one more reason the Globalist/Elite types do like that high-level diversity, though. They ARE the ones that can fly across the country to stay somewhere mainly to get a meal. "Hey, there are only, like 4 authentic Somalian food sit-down places in all of Fresno. I go there on business twice a year, and, dammit, this won't do! We need to raise quotas and get some more of those hardworking refugees." Just read an airline magazine some time - "Here's the food you can get in Sao Paulo, here's a list of the best Greek restaurants in Auckland, New Zealand." That's the way they are. However, the middle class now eats that stuff up too (pun partially intended).

To hell with these Foodies and their never-ending quest for more exotic people to cook them meals, then import the rest of the family to diversify the town then go on welfare. Could they not just stay inside most nights, brew their own beer, and pull up some cool new recipes off the internet? It'd sure save them some money too, so they could get ahead in life, if that's possible after paying the taxes and other social costs to support all whom they've imported.
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PS

School demographics info available online tells us:

Arcadia High School (California)
Asian:White ratio
67:10.

That's a lot higher (more Asian, relatively) than the overall-population rate in the table that I gave in the previous comment. The overall ratio in 2020 is about 47:10.

That's corroboration for what I say re Whites leaving Arcadia is due largely to White families with children choosing to leave to avoid Asians and their ways. It could also mean more Asians with children seek to go to Arcadia. Either way, the cycle pushes on.

The process has played out to almost a comical level in a number of places in Southern California.

What's so bad about this? In general, most Asians are not public-spirited people most of the time, and some can be outright big negatives to the social fabric by undermining public trust and the spirit of "the commons" so central to the way we see the world. When they're present in enough numbers, this will happen.

Asians, as a type, seek to monopolize things, exclude others and bully people to show who's boss (if you can avoid it, never work for an Asian boss), and they blunt the edges of a productive, creative culture due to their well-established culture of group-think.

A lot of good commentary came out of the anti-Vivek Ramaswamy backlash when he slammed White culture for not cramming for tests long enough, like he says he did. A lot of the best commentary was to the effect of, This guy doesn't have a clue what White-Western civilization is, what America is, how things work, nothing. He may be high-IQ and transnational and all, but he's mentally a provincial.

PS

-- Why did Whites flee Arcadia? --

Arcadia is one of the towns that underwent pretty severe White Flight when it began to be targeted by Asians in the 1980s-90s. The absolute number of Whites went into full retreat, earlier and more severely than the California state average.

I bring this up often: people need to get over thinking of East Asians as harmless, innocent people.

(This also relates directly to a recent Sailer discussion on White Flight From Asians.)

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Quote from the PS entry:

"This is a city I have heard of, even back in the 1980s. I knew a Chinese guy from Monterrey Park, just 5 miles east of downtown LA. Even back in those years he told me how the place was a big Chinese haven in the LA basin." (end quote)

To say Arcadia was known for having lots of Asians back already in the 1980s is not quire right.

As usual, the place was founded and built up by Whites and had a White-supermajority when the 1980s began.

There is just no tradition of having Asians in major numbers there. They chain-migrated in to take advantage of high-functioning White institutions, but, as usual, cannot maintain the same kind of thing to the gold-standard degree we tend to do (the process of Asian group-think, extreme status-competition, and a pervasive culture of low-level scamming undermine civic trust that they found on arrival in the 1980s-90s.

The process of Asians displacing Whites in the place BEGINS some time in the 1980s, but was far from a completed fact. At what point can we say it was basically complete? That's harder to say. The Point of No Return may have been in the early 1990s already...

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ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA

1980
-- 40,707 Whites
-- 1,748 Asians
-- 3,539 All Others

1990
-- 31,409 Whites
-- 11,175 Asians
-- 5,706 All Others

2000
-- 21,259 Whites
-- 24,018 Asians
-- 7,777 All Others

2010
-- 14,467 Whites
-- 33,224 Asians
-- 8,673 All Others

2020
-- 9,968 full-Whites
-- 36,608 full-Asians
-- 1,470 part-Asians
-- 8,635 All Others

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Threshold-points

--- By the early 2000s, the number of Whites resident in Arcadia had dropped to half what it had been in 1980.

A lot of White families that were being established there in the 1970s-90s moved out before their children fully grew up.

--- By the late 1990s, Asians exceed Whites in Arcadia. A mere fifteen or so years earlier, there'd been 20 to 25 Whites for every Asian.

--- Asians reach 3x the White level (all ages and conditions) by around the early 2010s. It's probably today above 4x. Adjusting for core-age people, families with children, I imagine it might approach 10x!

--- On an all-population basis, Arcadia tipped past the TWO-THIRDS Asian mark in the late 2010s (if including part-Asians; or early 2020s if only counting only full-Asians).

Arcadia has effectively had no true "White population" in some time now. The way these things work, those Whites who are still around when the White population drops to levels like one-quarter the original level, when being pushed out by racial newcomers, the Whites still around skew towards old people.

PS

But think of all the good Chinese food we get in the deal.

Diversity. Is. our. strength.

Yeah, I can taste a bit of vomit in the back of my throat when I say that.

Goodthing we have rooftop Koreans to counter that and other threats in SoCal.

🕉