讀羅恩·昂茨（Ron Unz）的長文《美國任人唯賢的神話》

昂茨是一個猶太裔的商人，哈佛本科，斯坦福理論物理碩士。他試圖獲得共和
黨1994年加州州長競選的黨內提名但沒有成功，但當時他獲得了34.3%的選票，被
人笑稱為“物理學書呆子的競選”。他寫於2012年的這篇38頁長文《美國任人唯賢的
神話》（The Myth of American Meritocracy）在美國教育界如同重磅炸彈，其
翔實的資料（有120處引文）和嚴密的邏輯使得他的論點極難被反駁。他甚至在論述
中逐一討論了反方論點和論據，讓人更難以挑戰他的論述。

可惜的是，這樣的真知灼見不能為今天的主流媒體所容，這篇文章很快就“沉下
去”了。他這篇文章的篇幅如此之大，以至於連華裔家長也沒幾個讀完。

昂茨文中第一頁就點明了整個問題的大背景：今日美國貧富懸殊愈演愈烈，中
產階級每況愈下。在這種向上流動性大減，“勝者全拿”的社會裏，對絕大多數家庭
而言進入常春藤名校是保證子女將來有出息的唯一道路。

二十世紀二十年代年之前包括哈佛在內的常春藤名校是按學術成績來錄取的，
漸漸的學術成績優異的猶太裔學生大量湧入常春藤名校。掌控著常春藤名校的盎格
努撒克遜後裔們在二十年代發明了這套號稱考慮多方麵條件的錄取製度好把猶太學
生的比例限製在15%之內。

其實其中的秘密說出來一文不值，基於學習成績的錄取製度也許談不上是什麽
好製度，但是至少公平透明，客觀性強。但是哈佛大學在二十年代年引入的這套複
雜，充滿主觀因素的錄取製度最妙之處就在於完全失去透明性，你很難直接對比兩
個學生，而校方就可以一手遮天，一方麵把猶太裔學生數目限製在一定比例下，一
方麵臉不紅心不跳地否認自己有任何歧視性政策，是不是聽上去很熟悉？

昂茨說的很直白：二戰之後，猶太社團通過靠著大規模在媒體和政治上造勢給
予常春藤名校巨大的壓力。與此同時猶太社團幾乎接管了美國的主流媒體，所有三
大電視網，九個好萊塢製片廠中的八家，很多大報社，包括紐約時報和華盛頓郵報
都被其控製。而掌握了權力的勝利果實如此甜蜜：1965年耶魯更換了招生辦公室的
工作人員，第二年，猶太裔學生數量翻番。

與此相反的是，今天亞裔啥也沒有，在電影電視電台和出版物上亞裔幾乎毫無
蹤跡。對大多數美國人而言，主流媒體不報道的事情就不存在，亞裔被歧視當然也
就不會有多少人注意到了。

在過去二十年裏亞裔的人口，特別是18歲到21歲年齡段人口（上圖虛線）大幅
增長，於此對應的是，錄取時不考慮種族因素的加州理工的亞裔學生比例也隨之增
長（和虛線伴隨增長的那條實線）。但是奇怪的是所有八所常春藤名校（其他八條
實線）的亞裔比例都被穩穩地控製在15%-20%區間，而這一切，據校方說，隻是巧
合！

昂茨沒有停下來，他用大量數據揭示了一個很多人不清楚的事實：今天猶太裔
學生學術成績的崩潰，如今猶太裔高中生的學術成績不但遠不如亞裔，連非猶太裔
的白人學生也不及。以下段落大家可以仔細閱讀，其中數據實在驚人：哈佛大學錄
取的新生中45%是白人，而猶太裔學生高達25%，也就是非猶太裔學生隻有20%。而
實際上隻占總人口2.1%的猶太裔學生的學術成績不如非猶太裔的白人學生，離亞裔
差得就更遠了，但是他們占了常春藤大蛋糕裏最大的一份。

在昂茨看來，猶太裔學生學術成績的崩潰是如此明顯，你無論用哪個指標去衡
量都一樣。原因呢？無他，新的一代猶太裔學生失去了父輩和祖父輩努力向上的動
力，讀到此處不禁讓人唏噓，二戰結束之後的那一代星光燦爛的猶太裔科學家，工
程師，醫生和律師們，如果知道後輩如此不長進，不知道會有何感想。昂茨甚至不
留情麵地指出，要不是蘇聯解體為猶太社團帶來了一波勤奮好學的新猶太移民，猶
太學生團體的平均學術成績還要更糟。

他極其傷感地指出：幾十年前，當一流高中生中25%是猶太裔的情況下，猶太裔
占據25%的常春藤席位是非常合理的。如今猶太裔在一流高中生的比例已經跌到了
6%，可是猶太裔學生在常春藤大學中的比例還略有增加。

 

The Myth of American Meritocracy

by ron unz

J ust before the Labor Day weekend, a front page New York Times story broke the news of the largest cheating scandal in Harvard University history, in which nearly half the students taking a Government course on the role of Congress had plagiarized or otherwise illegally collaborated on their final exam.1 Each year, Harvard admits just 1600 freshmen while almost 125 Harvard students now face possible suspension over this single incident. A Harvard dean described the situation as “unprecedented.” But should we really be so surprised at this behavior among the students at America’s most prestigious academic institution? In the last generation or two, the funnel of opportunity in American society has drastically narrowed, with a greater and greater proportion of our financial, media, business, and political elites being drawn from a relatively small number of our leading universities, together with their professional schools. The rise of a Henry Ford, from farm boy mechanic to world business tycoon, seems virtually impossible today, as even America’s most successful college dropouts such as Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg often turn out to be extremely well-connected former Harvard students. Indeed, the early success of Facebook was largely due to the powerful imprimatur it enjoyed from its exclusive availability first only at Harvard and later restricted to just the Ivy League. During this period, we have witnessed a huge national decline in well-paid middle class jobs in the manufacturing sector and other sources of employment for those lacking college degrees, with median American wages having been stagnant or declining for the last forty years. Meanwhile, there has been an astonishing concentration of wealth at the top, with

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The Pritzker family is an American family engaged in entrepreneurship and philanthropy, and one of the wealthiest families in the United States of America, being near the top of Forbes magazine's "America's Richest Families" list since the magazine began listings in 1982.

The Pritzker family is of Jewish descent^[3] and based in Chicago, Illinois.^[

When Jay died in 1999, the family split the business into 11 pieces worth $1.4 billion each

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Penny Pritzker

Penny attended Castilleja School until 1977.^[6][7] She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Harvard College in 1981.

Pritzker's friendship with Barack Obama and his family dates back to the 1990s when he was a professor at the University of Chicago.^[1] Pritzker met Obama at a Chicago YMCA where her son participated in a basketball program coached by Obama's brother-in-law Craig Robinson.^[5][27] Obama and his family were frequent guests at Pritzker's Lake Michigan vacation home.^[1][28]

Pritzker was an early supporter of Obama's political career, helping to finance his 2004 Senate campaign. Early in the Democratic presidential primary, Pritzker's financing helped Obama's candidacy survive when Obama was trailing Hillary Clinton in the polls.^[28] Pritzker remained a major fundraiser for Obama during the 2008 Democratic primary and raised millions overall for his White House bid.^[1] She served as the national finance chair of Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.^[29] Under her direction, the campaign reached out to small donors. Pritzker also hosted more lavish fundraisers as part of her effort to raise money.^[

President Barack Obama nominated Pritzker as United States Secretary of Commerce.

 

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沒有行政經驗, 新州長 J. B. Pritzker

He is a member of the Pritzker family and has an estimated personal net worth of $3.5 billion.

He s the 43rd governor of Illinois, since 2019. 

He attended Massachusetts boarding school Milton Academy and then graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. Pritzker went on to earn his Juris Doctor degree from Northwestern University School of Law.

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