Joseph Henrich

And the southern Italians are coming from a society that has a high distrust of strangers.

So their immediate effect on the patenting system is low.

But –

The strength of these cultural traits seems to go down by an order of magnitude each generation.

So the second generation, you can still see where they came from, but they're a lot more like the majority culture than their parents.

And then it goes down another order of magnitude.

So, yeah, so you just have to do more work essentially to assimilate people and culturate them.

But the potential value of having diverse ways of thinking, different ideas can be really valuable, I think.

assimilation uh has implications of whether we want uh immigration from non-weird societies what do you make of that idea so i mean i think that the spaghetti example is or the pizza pizza or spaghetti uh both good examples um is a great thing right because the the i mean american food is a fusion of like cuisine from lots of societies and that leads to quite good food um you can same thing you can see music so uh things like jazz come have african rhythms in them

And so rock and roll is along that lineage.

Well, but the question is, is do social interactional traits operate the same way as these things?

And if you have ethnic enclaves, then you're going to get low trust in those ethnic enclaves.

You get things like the mafia, right?

Right.

So you don't want that.

But if you had an immigration policy that distributed people, and in a high trust society, you benefit by being higher trust because you can do things like collaborate and start companies and stuff, which you have to be high trust to do that.

Otherwise, you don't do it in a very effective way.

So there is a pressure for low trust people to become more high trust.

But if you're in mostly high trust people, there's not an incentive for you to move down.

Um, so in social interactional traits are different than, than things like food types.