The Rumpus Interview With Malcolm Gladwell

“I’m totally engaging in cultural stereotyping, no question about it. But I think it’s OK because I’m doing it for a reason, for a good reason…
So long as the stereotype is used as a way of understanding how to fix the problem as opposed to demonizing a people or writing them off, then I think it’s OK.”
Rumpus: Let’s start by defining Outliers for the five people left who haven’t heard of it.
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