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Why Are Immigrants More Entrepreneurial?

By Peter Vandor, Nikolaus Franke — 2016

What do Arianna Huffington (Huffington Post), Dietrich Mateschitz (Red Bull), Elon Musk (Tesla, SpaceX), and Sergey Brin (Google) have in common? Apart from their success as entrepreneurs, they all share one distinct characteristic: extensive cross-cultural experience.

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Social and Financial Capital: The Ingredients Black Women Business Owners Are Missing

Even though Black women are starting businesses at a rapid rate, their businesses earn less revenue, remain smaller, and have a higher failure rate.

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Antionette Ball
2021
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Emotional Labor Is a Store Clerk Confronting a Maskless Customer

The preeminent sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild discusses the control over one’s feelings needed to go to work every day during a pandemic.

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Gary Stix
2020
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Why Whites Like His Writing

“The history is what the history is. And it is disrespectful, to white people, to soften the history.”

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Felice León
2015
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Culture, Not Hate? Symbols of the Confederacy

Two blocks north from my house, a neighbor flies a large Confederate flag. A half-mile south stands a statue commemorating the Confederate soldiers who fought to save my city from the invading armies of the United States of America.

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Rami Shapiro
2020
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White Supremacy and Judaism: A Response

After the terrorist attack in El Paso, Rabbi Rami is asked about the Tree of Life Synagogue murders.

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Rami Shapiro
2019
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Darian Hall and Elisa Shankle on Building a New Kind of Wellness Studio in Brooklyn

Darian Hall and Elisa Shankle wanted to create a space for growth in all its forms.

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Fariha Róisín
2019
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Why Did Human History Unfold Differently on Different Continents for the Last 13,000 Years?

The biggest question that Jared Diamond is asking himself is how to turn the study of history into a science.

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Jared Diamond
1997
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