{"id":6701,"date":"2026-04-01T18:58:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=6701"},"modified":"2026-04-05T13:30:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T20:30:35","slug":"professor-implies-americans-are-dumb-and-lazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2026\/04\/01\/professor-implies-americans-are-dumb-and-lazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor implies Americans are dumb, and lazy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

More of the hate America meme, this from a tenured professor:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zeke Hernandez, a Wharton professor and author of \u201cThe Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers,\u201d says the low immigration and population growth numbers are \u201cvery concerning.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe whole problem is that immigrants were the recourse,\u201d Hernandez told Straight Arrow News. \u201cFor decades, they\u2019ve been making up for the talent, jobs, skills, consumption, and innovation that native born people cannot or will not provide.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Low immigration numbers lead to slowing population growth in the US<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Big update on this post appears in my newer post: The lack of academic research on self boot strapped American workers \u2013 Coldstreams Travel and Global Thinking<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The professor is an immigrant from Uruguay, grew up in multiple countries<\/a>, Would be nice if someone as brilliant as he is would study the group of people who did not have his privileges and do not have immigration privilege today, wouldn’t it? There is no indication he had to work since age 10 and pay for 100% of his own college education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Update <\/strong><\/em>– see my update <\/a>– he’s far more open minded than how he came across on the news column, above.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many countries think they will deal with low fertility rates by importing skilled workers from abroad. It is not clear there are sufficient numbers of skilled workers willing to move to other countries, particularly when dozens of countries say they are adopting the same policy of bring in more immigrants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a bit much of this thinking going around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6724,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6701\/revisions\/6724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}