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I've caught a lot of slack around here for suggesting that the way rap functions today is an overall net negative on the community. I want to use this video among others as a jumping off point for a discussion on the significance of music and other aspects of culture on performance.
Thomas Sowell discusses the significance of culture in 1984. He makes a lot of valuable points here based on his analysis of cultures and immigrants all over the world.
Many years later an older, and admittedly more curmudgeon-ish Sowell discusses culture and the pitfalls of a society that raises the values of multiculturalism and diversity to such heights. Near the end of the video he says that we can think of the impact of black subculture just as we think of southern white redneck subculture- that both are detrimental to the overall performance of the demographics that subscribe to them.
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