whichAsians are raised. Contrast Koreans and Filipinos and Cambodian refugees andfifth-generation Japanese-Americans. It's not clear they have much in commonculturally other than that in the West their women are more in demand asspouses than their men.One reasonable cultural explanation for the sexual attractiveness of blackmen today is the hypermasculinization of black life over the last fewdecades. To cite a benign aspect of this trend, if you've followed theOlympics on TV since the 1960s you've seen sprinters' victory celebrationsevolve from genteel exercises in restraint into orgies of fist-pumping,trash-talking black machismo. This showy masculinization of black behaviormay be in part a delayed reaction to the long campaign by Southern whitemales to portray them- selves as "The Man" and the black man as a "boy." Butlet's not be content to stop our analysis here. Why did Jim Crow whites tryso hard to demean black manhood? As we've seen, the chief reason was toprevent black men from impregnating white women.So, did all racist whites a century ago make keeping minorities away fromtheir women their highest priority? No. As noted earlier, the anti-Asianimmigration laws kept Asian women out, forcing many Asian immigrantbachelors to look for white women (with mixed success). While white men werecertainly not crazy about this side effect, it seemed an acceptabletradeoff, since they feared Asian immigrants more as economic than as sexualcompetitors. But why did whites historically dread the masculine charms ofblacks more than those of Asians? Merely asking this question points outthat social conditioning is ultimately a superficial explanation of thedifferences among peoples. Yes, society socializes individuals, but whatsocializes society?There are only three fundamental causes for the myriad ways groups differ.The first is unsatisfying but no doubt important: random flukes of history.The second, the favorite of Thomas Sowell and Jared Diam...
