As young Americans navigate choppy seas fomented by mass migration and its downstream effects, they will need to rediscover our national identity and unite behind it while forging a path ahead, Gen Z venture capitalist Nathan Halberstadt believes.
Halberstadt, a 25-year-old partner at New Founding and noted graph-maker, says the cultural impact of unbridled immigration — both legal and illegal — is underdiscussed, particularly as to how it affects his generation.
“You go to Carnegie Mellon [University] today, it’s 40 percent foreign students. These are people who don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, they don’t dress up at Halloween — it radically transforms the nature of these campuses and the student life experience,” he told Border Hawk.
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Halberstadt pointed out that the foreign student population at U.S universities and colleges has exploded from roughly 25,000 in the 1950s to nearly 1.5 million in the 2020s.
“I think the college that I went to, that my dad and grandpa went to, those colleges are for Americans and they should reflect American identity. I think that’s really important,” he asserted.
“The number of American-born people hasn’t actually increased that much since the 1950s, we’ve just flooded every possible category of student visa, work visa, refugee, illegal migrant, people getting their green cards and citizenship — it’s actually destroying our country… We need to turn off all of these.”
Halberstadt just returned from a trip to South Africa where life has become distinctly difficult and dangerous for the ethnic European population due to extreme corruption, mass migration, and a government growing increasingly hostile to white people.
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“Seeing the state of the infrastructure — the tracks are there but no trains run on the tracks anymore because they have been so stripped by migrants and criminals and such. The copper wire has been ripped out in many areas and this removes power for people. The copper is sold on the black market,” he explained.
“In many places, they’ve stopped putting in copper and are instead using aluminum, which is much less conductive. You have to have a much fatter wire. The reason why they do this is because it sells for less on the black market.”
Copper cable from underground power lines outside Pretoria stripped to be sold on the black market.
Part of broader infrastructure collapse as migration and lawlessness escalate in the region.
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While South Africa could be heading towards Balkanization, Halberstadt believes the U.S. is a “winner-take-all situation” due in part to the overwhelming power of the federal government.
He believes Zoomers need to rally around a revitalized American cultural identity in order to thrive in the declining political and economic climate.
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“I think that is the message of hope: even if things get bad, in some ways there could be little silver linings that emerge. Ultimately, I think we just need to win,” he said.
“Even if things stop going our way, it’s not over until it’s really over.”
