Usborne Quotes

Es señal del hombre Modesto el aceptar de manos de la casualidad el círculo de sus amistades.

There’s no place like home.

But I do know one thing: I am damn well going to find out.

Initially, Indians were classified in court cases of 1910 and 1913 as “Caucasians” and consequently were allowed to intermarry with US-born Whites.144 Because previous Supreme Court rulings had established that being Caucasian was synonymous with being White, a group of Asian Indians, on the basis of their Caucasian classification, pursued their right to become citizens but were denied because of their brown skin. In 1923 the case went to the Supreme Court—United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind. The judges ruled that while Asian Indians were Caucasians (descended from the Caucasoid region of Eurasia), they could not be considered White and consequently were not eligible for US citizenship

Though most mass shootings in the US have been committed by US-born White men, it is rare (if ever) that those shooters are identified by their religious affiliations. They are viewed and talked about as individuals, not as representatives of a racial, ethnic, or religious group.

Though most mass shootings in the US have been committed by US-born White men, it is rare (if ever) that those shooters are identified by their religious affiliations.

the Muslim population in the US is approximately 3.3 million, the majority of whom are US-born.

The first wave of immigrants from India...[arrived] in the first decade of the twentieth century. Initially, Indians were classified as 'Caucasians' and consequently were allowed to intermarry with US-born Whites. Because previous Supreme Court rulings had established that being Caucasian was synonymous with being White, a group of Asian Indians...pursued their right to become citizens but were denied because of their brown skin. In 1923, the case went to the Supreme Court—United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind. The judges ruled that while Asian Indians were Caucasians (descended from the Caucasoid region of Eurasia), they could not be considered White and consequently were not eligible for US citizenship. This ruling made explicit the concept of skin color as a bar to becoming a citizen. As the court ruling stated, '...the intention of the Founding Fathers was to "confer the privilege of citizenship upon the class of persons they knew as white"'.

One study looked at diversity in U.S. cities. The three most successful cities economically—New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco—were the three most diverse. Each 10 percent increase in diversity resulted in a rise in net income of 15 percent in the original U.S.-born population. Diversity of opinion—tolerance of differences—is particularly important in the high-tech sector.

children of immigrants from nearly every country in the world, including from poorer countries like Mexico, Guatemala, and Laos, are more upwardly mobile than the children of US-born residents who were raised in families with a similar income level.

Richard Usborne echoed the belief that a club’s ‘hall porter was a reasonable picket against cads, creditors and hunch-backed foreigners