America's future is misunderstood by Harvard academic

Joseph Nye of Harvard University, “Dean of American political scientists,” thinks that it is open immigration that has made the U. S. greater than the closed immigration of China, which will keep China from being great. “China can draw on the talent pool of 1.3 billion people, but the U.S. can draw on the world's 7 billion.” (Time, March 23, 2015) This is probably just the standard lack of knowledge of sociobiology among Western academics, or perhaps it is the refusal to accept knowledge of sociobiology.

The reality is that the melting pot of America did not melt for Latin Americans, Native Americans, African Americans, etc. and it won't melt for the millions of new immigrants---for example, Islamic Somalis are not melting, on the contrary, they are agitating against the establishment on behalf of their own people and religion, which is only natural. Human nature remains ethnocentric, even xenophobic, among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection.

Then there are the clear IQ differences among people: Asian intelligence is the highest in the world, so China's closed pool of 1. 3 billion people will do just fine against the open immigration of the U.S.  I am not saying China doesn't have problems, but for Professor Nye to crow about U.S. future geopolitical dominance over China is at least a misunderstanding of reality.

But China is now making the same mistakes that the U.S made in becoming a global empire (and Great Britain before us), and this will be the main negative challenge for China in the future. The United States military needs to come home, and so do America's international companies, then we can begin to think again of U.S. dominance. Millions of American jobs have been lost to globalism, the middle class has been gutted, and disparities of income are ever greater, which is a sure scenario for social problems.

The U.S. can move ahead of future trends by re-embracing economic nationalism and fair trade with the world, and by largely dismantling the America empire, which has made us inferior, not superior. As to open immigration, we need to do more than stop immigration to assimilate the millions of new immigrant we now have, because they won't assimilate any better than the past immigrants---other than those who more or less came from the same countries of the nation's founders.

As a consequence of the non-assimilation of the various ethnic cultures in America, I believe we will need to boldly look at the structure of ethnopluralism, applying the Constitutional separation of powers and states and regions to ethnic cultures, virtual ethnic states, held together and protected by federalism. That is a future which can give real social and cultural hope for our long-term existence. And China would do well to apply its own form of ethnopluralism if it wants to avoid future social disruptions and decline, which may be more difficult for communist China than the United States.