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Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World

You point out that depending on where you come fromin a foreign country also makes a...

You point out that depending on where you come from
in a foreign country also makes a considerable
difference because you carry your ethos
on your back, don't you?

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You point out that depending on
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where you come from in a foreign country
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also makes a considerable difference
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because you carry your ethos on your back, don't you?
Duration
9 seconds
Views
18
Timestamp in Movie
00:36:59
Uploaded
May 10, 2025
Genres
documentary, biography
Production
Free To Choose Enterprise

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Traces Thomas Sowell's journey from humble beginnings to the Hoover Institution, becoming one of our era's most controversial economists, political philosophers, and prolific authors.
Yes, that if you look at the Chinese - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:13
Yes, that if you look at the Chinese
The people who have come in since World War II - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:05
The people who have come in since World War II
They've come in with a different set of experiences - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:05
They've come in with a different set of experiences
Many of them are the poverty-stricken Chinese - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:18
Many of them are the poverty-stricken Chinese
The American employer is probably totally unaware - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:05
The American employer is probably totally unaware
It's only the people who work with the data - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:04
It's only the people who work with the data
"It takes considerable knowledge - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:17
"It takes considerable knowledge
To gather material for his extensive writings - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:11
To gather material for his extensive writings
As an amateur photographer, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:06
As an amateur photographer,
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He went around the world and analyzed - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:10
He went around the world and analyzed
One of Tom's discoveries was that - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:12
One of Tom's discoveries was that
Too often the influence of geography on wealth - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:13
Too often the influence of geography on wealth
But important as such differences are, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:10
But important as such differences are,
Why did Europe conquer Africa instead of vice versa? - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:05
Why did Europe conquer Africa instead of vice versa?
Well, there are a number of ways in which civilizations - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:12
Well, there are a number of ways in which civilizations
Sophisticated cultures are ones that sit - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:24
Sophisticated cultures are ones that sit
A lot of his research, as you mentioned, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:07
A lot of his research, as you mentioned,
But that curiosity is not necessarily appreciated - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:16
But that curiosity is not necessarily appreciated