{"id":353783,"date":"2018-03-25T08:51:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T07:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/not-all-cultures-are-created-equal-says-penn-law-professor-in-op-ed\/"},"modified":"2018-03-25T08:51:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T07:51:59","slug":"not-all-cultures-are-created-equal-says-penn-law-professor-in-op-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/not-all-cultures-are-created-equal-says-penn-law-professor-in-op-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Not All Cultures Are Created Equal\u2019 Says Penn Law Professor in Op-Ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Dan Spinelli, The Daily Pennsylvanian, 10 August 2017<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Returning to the American cultural values of the 1950s \u2014 thrift, gratitude, temperance, continence, among others \u2014 would \u201csignificantly reduce society\u2019s pathologies,\u201d says Penn Law School professor Amy Wax\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/opinion\/commentary\/paying-the-price-for-breakdown-of-the-countrys-bourgeois-culture-20170809.html\" target=\"_blank\">in an op-ed published<\/a>\u00a0on Philly.com and co-written with Larry Alexander of the University of San Diego School of Law.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wax\u2019s piece, entitled \u201cPaying the price for breakdown of the country&#8217;s bourgeois culture,\u201d condemns \u201cthe single-parent, anti-social habits, prevalent among some working-class whites,\u201d \u201cthe anti &#8216;acting white\u2019 rap culture of inner-city blacks\u201d and the \u201canti-assimilation ideas gaining ground among some Hispanic immigrants\u201d as \u201cnot suited for a First World, 21st-century environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <em>The Daily Pennsylvanian<\/em> on Thursday, Wax said Anglo-Protestant cultural norms are superior.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t shrink from the word, &#8216;superior,'&#8221; she said, adding,\u00a0\u201cEveryone wants to come to the countries that exemplify\u201d these values. \u201cEveryone wants to go to countries ruled by white Europeans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wax has been affiliated with Penn Law since 2001 and has degrees from Yale, Harvard and Columbia. She has taught widely on subjects related to the family, economics and public law.<\/p>\n<p>After earning a degree from Harvard Medical School, Wax switched course into law and spent eight years working in the Solicitor General\u2019s office during the Reagan, Bush and Clinton&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/not-all-cultures-are-created-equal-says-penn-law-professor-in-op-ed\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Spinelli, The Daily Pennsylvanian, 10 August 2017 Returning to the American cultural values of the 1950s \u2014 thrift, gratitude, temperance, continence, among others \u2014 would \u201csignificantly reduce society\u2019s pathologies,\u201d says Penn Law School professor Amy Wax\u00a0in an op-ed published\u00a0on Philly.com and co-written with Larry Alexander of the University of San Diego School of Law.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-353783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}