Malcolm Gladwell

Interesting, tennis. Now, rugby. Now, rugby, so you guys are Africans, particularly you, you come, you guys are serious rugby playing people. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Understand that in the American context. Oh, no.

Rugby's a very different animal. Yes. Not playing rugby and, you know, field hockey, squash. You can see where I'm going with this. So they reserve. You add up all those numbers, men and women, right? Coaches, kids sitting on the bench. You add all those numbers up and you see that they have reserved an entire team.

Rugby's a very different animal. Yes. Not playing rugby and, you know, field hockey, squash. You can see where I'm going with this. So they reserve. You add up all those numbers, men and women, right? Coaches, kids sitting on the bench. You add all those numbers up and you see that they have reserved an entire team.

Huge pool of admission slots for white people with enough money to be good at white people sports. Yeah. It's the whole thing is like so hilariously obvious. And like they're pretending for years they've been pretending. Oh, no, no. We we believe the athlete brings something special to the camp. No bullshit. Like I do. I do this thing with tennis.

Huge pool of admission slots for white people with enough money to be good at white people sports. Yeah. It's the whole thing is like so hilariously obvious. And like they're pretending for years they've been pretending. Oh, no, no. We we believe the athlete brings something special to the camp. No bullshit. Like I do. I do this thing with tennis.

In order to play Division I tennis in this country, you must have played junior tennis. Okay. In order to play junior tennis, your parents have to – I did the math – have to spend at a minimum $50,000 a year on your game and probably north of $100,000.

In order to play Division I tennis in this country, you must have played junior tennis. Okay. In order to play junior tennis, your parents have to – I did the math – have to spend at a minimum $50,000 a year on your game and probably north of $100,000.

When you add up all the things you – so basically what Harvard is saying is we've got whatever it is, 12 spots on our tennis team, which we are reserving for people who have parents capable of spending $100,000 a year on their games. Like, it's like – I mean –

When you add up all the things you – so basically what Harvard is saying is we've got whatever it is, 12 spots on our tennis team, which we are reserving for people who have parents capable of spending $100,000 a year on their games. Like, it's like – I mean –

If you don't do this, if you have an elite school that just takes the smartest kids, what that means is your school's culture is going to turn over with each new wave of smart immigrants that come. So you're going to be all Jewish in the 50s, then you're going to be all Korean now, and you're going to be all Nigerian in like 10 years.

If you don't do this, if you have an elite school that just takes the smartest kids, what that means is your school's culture is going to turn over with each new wave of smart immigrants that come. So you're going to be all Jewish in the 50s, then you're going to be all Korean now, and you're going to be all Nigerian in like 10 years.

I think it's an amazing thing.

I think it's an amazing thing.

But you can see if your conception of what your school is is a place where you have lots of preppy kids in blazers, you can't play that game.

But you can see if your conception of what your school is is a place where you have lots of preppy kids in blazers, you can't play that game.

Because you're going to wake up one day and you're going to have a lot of Ebo shouting at loud voices running around your campus. And that's unthinkable.

Because you're going to wake up one day and you're going to have a lot of Ebo shouting at loud voices running around your campus. And that's unthinkable.

So the Willem Groves, that was very interesting. So- there's a really brilliant woman whose work I read and I love by the name of Bonnie Dow, who does this kind of meta-analysis of television shows and their importance. And she looked at the way, including in Ellen, the way that television had described and discussed gay relationships.

So the Willem Groves, that was very interesting. So- there's a really brilliant woman whose work I read and I love by the name of Bonnie Dow, who does this kind of meta-analysis of television shows and their importance. And she looked at the way, including in Ellen, the way that television had described and discussed gay relationships.

And she said that up until Will & Grace, every time gay people were talked about, even if they were talked about on television in a positive way, a series of rules were in place. The emphasis on the show was always about how straight people reacted to the gay person, not on the gay person themselves. The second thing was that the gay person's gayness was always a problem that had to be solved.