Posted on 08/12/2016 9:02:25 AM PDT by jumpingcholla34
The Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study looked at black kids who had been adopted, as infants, by middle-class to upper-middle-class white families. The purpose was to study the effects of environment on IQ. The study found that, even being raised from infancy by affluent white families, and going to school in good schools, the average adult IQ of the adopted black kids was just 89.
I have not heard of any further studies done.
Dubious at best.
I’ll see your Atlanta, and raise you Chicago and Baltimore.
Oftentimes, when a governing authority leaves, things go along pretty well for awhile, while people who were trained by the previous government still have an impact. But as soon as those people get replaced by the locals, it rarely goes well. Some nations have the culture and temperament to self rule and recover. Others, not so much.
I have been looking for statistics (but they probably aren’t very good from 200 years ago) - but was told that when Dutch arrived to South Africa, it was nearly unpopulated. There were local bushmen (who still exist) but otherwise, much of the land was not settled.
Like the USA - black africans were brought (or immigrated) from elsewhere to South Africa, for work. Any truth to this?
Yeah, it’s hard to ‘reclaim’ something that never existed in the first place.
When the Colonial powers left their colonies starting after WW2, most the new countries of Africa and Asia and South America adopted some form of socialism/fascism for their Govts. Property ownership and Rule of Law are the hallmarks of a free and prosperous people, but this is virtually unknown throughout the world except in the Evil Western nations. We are under attack for our success. Our own leaders have deteriorated into 3rd world dictators and hate their own countrymen - Having higher IQs won’t save us if we don’t figure out how to stop the likes of Obama, Clinton, and all the traitors posing as “one of us.” The solutions are no longer political unfortunately.
I also doubt he is popular on Stormfront given the amount of blame the author places on white civilizations for what he says are the current state of affairs.
Black and not popular by demand? So why if a white man says the same thing as the author does, is a racist?
Median IQ:
Asians: 110
Whites: 100
Hope my wife doesn’t see these figures. She’s Japanese I am white. Does that mean my two boys have an average IQ of 105?
Tribal warfare is the special environmental pressure that drives increases in human intelligence while leaving other animals largely untouched. Unlike Asians/Caucasians the Africans did not participate in the long brutal war against the Neanderthals, which is possibly a primary cause of the unequal IQ.
We were offered a retirement incentive to quit work. It was enough for my Nigerian buddy to say “I could go home and have 3 wives!”
Somebody needs to do a “What If There Were No White People” movie. In which we see a world bereft of all the things that whites have given it.
Aren’t we all mixed race by now? None of us are pure white or black, especially when referring to a nation.
Well, name one. I'm trying to think of one, but can't. Maybe you can enlighten us with an example. I'm open to suggestions. And, note that the author is using the present tense. Ancient African civilizations don't count.
The movie IDIOCRACY[ is actually based on that premise. That has to be a concern. With ZIKA, the increase and autism, medical knowledge to keep folks across the spectrum alive, and hi-IQ people having less children (etc), there's constant downward pressure on the aptitudes needed to maintain Western civilization.
Other cultures can thrive with a different set of skills from those that led to the development and sustaining of our civilization. But they'll be very different. Looking at it from that view, that's why regime change is such a really bad idea. Most of the regimes we overthrew were what worked in those cultures.
Because guilt works better on smarter people than facts do.
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