rsa for women.Understanding the impact of genetic racial differences on American life is anecessity for anybody who wants to understand our increasingly complexsociety. For example, the sense of betrayal felt by Asian men certainlymakes sense. After all, they tend to surpass the national average in thoselong-term virtues -- industry, self-restraint, law-abidingness -- thatsociety used to train young women to look for in a husband. Yet, now thatdiscrimination has finally declined enough for Asian men to expect to reapthe rewards for ful- filling traditional American standards of manliness,our culture has largely lost interest in indoctrinating young women to prizethose qualities.The frustrations of Asian men are a warning sign. When, in the names offree- dom and feminism, young women listen less to the hard-earned wisdom ofolder women about how to pick Mr. Right, they listen even more to theirhormones. This allows cruder measures of a man's worth -- like the size ofhis muscles -- to return to prominence. The result is not a feminist utopia,but a society in which genetically gifted guys can more easily get away withacting like Mr. Wrong.George Orwell noted, "To see what is in front of one's nose requires a con-stant struggle." We can no longer afford to have our public policy governedby fashionable philosophies which insists upon ignoring the obvious. Therealities of interracial marriage, like those of professional sports, showthat diversity and integration turn out in practice to be fatal to thereign- ing assumption of racial uniformity. The courageous individuals ininterracial marriages have moved farthest past old hostilities. Yet, they'vediscovered not the featureless landscape of utter equality that waspredicted by progres- sive pundits, but a landscape rich with fascinatingracial patterns. Intellec- tuals should stop dreading the ever-increasingevidence of human biodiversity and start delighting in it....
