exposures to islam, buddhism, hinduism, so forth, they it represent unique spiritual pathways or journeys, too. so people want to come to a school or a center where there are multiple exposures and they can kind of taste, if you will, from all of the wonderful traditions. >> sounds exciting. sounds very exciting. now, we were speaking earlier that dalai lama was in town a month ago. is he is an interesting fellow. i think someone asked him how do i get my children to, you know, do their homework? he said, first, i have to have children and get married and have children and do that. he has a great sense of humor. what was your impression? i understand you were there. >> he is very humble and approachable human being. so even nope he is a leader of this vast -- even though he is a leader of this vast movement and known throughout the whole world and audiences, of course, with the president, he is very approachable. and he was talking about the role of compassion, and particularly compassion in business. so there were leaders from the silicon valley and there were leaders from santa clara un

and as we become more interreligious -- that is, the exposure tube buddhism, islam, hinduism and so forth, they all represent unique spiritual pathways or journeys too. and so people want to come to a school or a center where there are multiple exposures. and they can kind of taste -- if you will, from all of the wonderful traditions. >> it sounds very exciting. we were speaking earlier that the dalai lama was in town a month ago. he is an interesting fellow. i think someone asked him, how do i get my children to do their homework? he said, i first have to have children and get married. then i could do that. he has a great sense of humor. what was your impression? i understand you are there. >> he is very humble and approach year -- and approachable. even though he is the leader of this vast movement. and known throughout the whole world and audiences like the president, he is very approachable. he was talking about the role of compassion. particularly, compassion in business. so there were leaders from the silicon valley. there were leaders from universities and centers. and he really ma

lay shall home, spokesperson -- surrounded by awesome snow-capped mountains and where paganism, hinduism, judaism, had once flourished. yet buddhism, before the arab invasion resulted in the fourth conversion of the afghan people to islam, like so many others around the globe, afghans were once buddhists. pagans, hindus, and jews lived among them, certainly from the ninth century on, possibly much earlier than that. i will never forget the swarm kindness of my young brothers in law and who understood how unhappy i was and the female servants were shy and sweet and entirely without malice and they were also sleeping on the floor with no heat and their wages was were pitiful and they walked 24-7. and i found this as shacking as nearly everything else and the afghan people -- the men, because most male adventurers only get to meet male afghans. only people. they have a great ceremonial genius and a wild sense of humor. they're really very funny. i have been told that may father-in-law helped found the modern banking system of the country, and it's true, and all the major import-export compa

we are not talking about this essentialist hinduism or 5,000 year confuciusism. it's more the immigrant experience. they come over, yeah, strong, middle kingdommite. the chinese have a very strong sense of exceptionalism. once you come to this country, that is all mixed up. you're an outsider. you have a funny accent and it's this dynamic interplay. >> may i go back to -- here's what the immigrant sect different idea can't explain. it can't explain mormon or jewish success. these are two big cases in our book. in addition to that -- there's two ideas of immigrant activity. one is coming over if higher education, and the other is bold. late look at education skills. over half of chinese immigrants do not go -- come over on visas. we have a stereo type who is coming over but most of them are not. so the chinese ones -- this community has been very well studied. the chinese ones who don't come over, there's mostly poor and many of them very poorly educated, and yet their kid -- this is documented because there's a large community of people have done the research. th

we are not talking about this essentialist hinduism or 5,000-year confucianism. it's really the interaction of people. it's more immigrant experience. they come over -- yeah, i mean, strong middle kingdom identity. the chinese have a very strong sense of exceptionalism. but once you come to this country, that's all mixed up, right? you're an outsider, you have a funny accent, and it's really this kind of dynamic interplay. >> guest: may i come back to the immigrant selectivity point for one second? >> guest: sure. >> guest: it can't explain yes success. -- jewish success. in addition to that, and this is -- see, there's two ideas of immigrant selectivity. one is they're coming over with higher levels of education and skill, one is they're coming over, they're more bold and motivated. you've got to look at these two things separately. it turns out that over half of chinese immigrants do not come over on those visas and just under half of indian immigrants come over, most of them are not. so those chinese ones -- and this community's been very well studied -- the c

we are not talking about this hinduism or interaction of people but the experience that they come over. strong. middle kingdom identity and the chinese have a sense. strong sense of exempttionalism. when you have come to this country. that is all mixed up. right? as an outsider and you have a funny accent there is a dynamic interplay. >> can we come into this for a second. >> sure. this is the selectiveity can explain. they cannot explain the more monday success they are third, fourth. and fifth generation, and the two big cases in the book. in addition to that. this is see there are two. coming over with the meyer levels of education and others are becoming more bold. motivateded. you have to look at the two things separately. it turns out that over half of the chinese immigrants do not go there with ves as in half of the independent yainl grants. we have the stereotype in the head of who is coming microsoft of them are not. chinese are mostly poor. and many are poorly educate and this is documented many have done the research and their kids. the kids of immigrants are doing just as w

we are not talking about the essentialist hinduism or five gazetteer confucianism.it's the interaction of people. they come over strong middle kingdom identity. chinese have a strong sense of exceptionalism. but once you come to this country, that is all mixed up. you're an outsider, a funny accent. is this dynamic play. >> host: okay can be yours for it can explain. it can explain morgan's success, jewish success. these are two big cases in our book. in addition to that, to ideas of immigrants. coming overtired levels of education. one is more bold, war but a faded. let's look at the education and skills. turns out over half of chinese immigrants do not go in just half of indian immigrants do not come over. we have a this stereotype in ahead of his coming over. this community has been well studied. they are mostly poor and very poorly educated. as a large community of people who have gone and done the research. those immigrants are doing just as well is the case of the other immigrants which is odd. -- chasseurs not the parental backgrounds. more important for our

were not talking about this essentialist hinduism or 5,000-year confucianism. it's really the interaction of people. it's more the immigrant experience. they come over, yeah, i mean, small middle kingdom identity. the chinese have a very strong sense of exceptionalism. but once you come to this country, that's all mixed up, right? you're an outsider, you have a funny accent, and it's really this kind of dynamic interplay. >> guest: may i come back to the selectivity point for one secondsome. >> host: sure. >> guest: okay. here's what it can't explain, it can't explain mormon or jewish success because jews now are third, fourth, fifth generation. in addition to that, and there's two ideas. one is they're coming over with higher levels of education skill, one is they're coming over more bold and motivated. and you've got to look at these separate. let's look at the education skills. it turns out that over half of chinese immigrants do not come over on these visas. we have thisser is yo type in our -- stereotype in our head, but most of them are not. this has been