Posted on 12/18/2016 9:14:35 PM PST by Tours
Well, apart from the Gulf states – thanks in large part to coming from such a low base that even subcontinental coolies are an improvement over the natives.
Otherwise, the cognitive impact of immigration – at least as proxied by the differences in performance on the PISA tests between the national average, which includes immigrant children, versus only native children – is almost entirely negative for its supposed beneficiaries across the entire world.
Even those few countries with expressly “cognitively elitist” immigration policies see only the most modest of benefits: Singapore: +0.7; Canada: -0.1; Australia: -0.2.
Otherwise, the only countries not to be significantly affected are those which see little immigration in general, such as Japan and Korea. So perhaps the best way of “winning” the game to attract quality immigrants is to avoid playing it in the first place.
Western Europe is a complete disaster zone, getting a harder cognitive hit even though the immigrant share of their population is considerably smaller than the US, where they constitute almost a quarter of the PISA-taking population. The German national average takes an astounding 2.4 IQ point hit due to immigrants. Moreover, there is no full convergence between first and second generation immigrants. Although one can hope the children of all those Syrian “doctors and engineers” will go on to become productive and loyal citizens, past experience suggests that they will merely bolster the sullen ranks of a permanent, growing, ethnically distinct, and highly criminalized underclass.
The situation in the US is actually considerably better than in Europe – the low-IQ Central Americans, who are not sending their best, are counterbalanced by the millions of talented East Asians, Indians, and other intelligent and highly motivated people who still want to make America their home. Thanks to that the world’s biggest immigrant nation only loses 1.3 IQ points due to all the newcomers. Donald Trump is promising a big beautiful wall to stem the rising tide of color from the south, but even if he fails to come through, at least the mestizos have better tempers and aren’t wont to blow up like the Mohammedans. The choice between Eurabian dhimmitude or fusing with La Raza Cosmica isn’t exactly hard.
Russia only loses 0.4 IQ points due to immigration, which sounds surprising low, given that Central Asia appears to be a cognitive black hole – Kyrgyzstan, by far not the worst state in the region, came dead last in PISA 2012, and Lynn and Grigoriev have estimated the IQs of Kazakhs and Uzbeks in Kazakhstan to lie in the 80s (very comparable to the chasm between European America and Central America).
I suspect this is down to the following three big factors.
First, for all the nationalist rhetoric, in comparative terms the demographic inflow into Russia from the “Global South” is still rather modest; (official) annual immigration runs at about 300,000 souls per year, and a big part of that now accrues to Ukraine (in contrast, about 500,000 people immigrate to the UK every year, despite its population being more than twice lower than Russia’s). This is backed up by the PISA 2015 statistics, according to which only 7% of the Russian schoolchildren who sat the test have an immigrant background, versus 17% in both the UK and Germany, and 23% in the US.
Second, I assume that the children of the ethnic Russians who repatriated to Russia in the 1990s – in absolute numbers, they would still easily outnumber the Central Asians and Caucasians who came in the 2000s – are also counted as immigrants, and thus “dilute” the negative influence of the Uzbeks and Tajiks. Finally, it is also quite likely that the Central Asian “immigrant” Russians are brighter than the average Russian who never left: First, it was typically (genuine) doctors, engineers, and other specialists who were sent to develop Central Asia under the Soviet Union, and second, getting out of the place after the Soviet collapse was kind of an IQ test of its own. Both of these points may have served to artificially raise the quality of statistically-defined immigrants to Russia and to thus dilute the size of its hit on Russian national IQ.
The UK doesn’t do too badly – only a 0.9 IQ point hit – because the Anjem Choudarys are partially canceled out by talented and ambitious Europeans. Many of the finance and technological firms in the City of London are majority staffed by talented foreigners. There are 200,000 French citizens in London.
Given the strong dependence between national IQ and economic prosperity, the globalist open borders project presents a serious challenge to the long-term viability of the First World cognitive engines that drive the vast bulk of technological progress – progress that is already threatened by the dysgenic trends embedded in post-Malthusian society and the banal fact that problems tend to get harder, not easier, as you ascend the technological ladder. This is not to even mention the risk of “institutional contagion” from newcomers who are culturally and perhaps biologically incompatible with that unique blend of individualism and commitment to the commonweal that facilitated the rise of European civilization.
As the neoreactionaries have argued, to cultivate a garden, you first need to build a wall. We needed to have started building it yesterday, but late is better than never.
“Given the strong dependence between national IQ and economic prosperity, the globalist open borders project presents a serious challenge to the long-term viability of the First World”
Bears frequent repeating
This can’t be true. The leftwing commie “media” has stories every day about some obnoxious illegal alien with a Mexican flag who is the graduating class valedictorian.
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Can’t be true can it? Just turn on the TV and see the minority Doctor/Manager and the bumbling white male...../s
Folks don’t understand this.
Mexico has a middle class. People with mortgages, kids in private school, car payments. They like Mexico. They are swimming across the Rio Grande to get a job as a drug dealer or a lettuce picker in California.
Wetbacks on the run, thugs, wanted, criminals looking for a softer target rich environment is what we get.
Speaking of the southern border...
I heard about this Border Control Agent, he just wouldn’t let any llamas into the country. He said it was his-llama-phobia. His doctor prescribed him Xanax. He said it was for his-panic attacks.
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Apologies for the silliness;-)
Mexico has the option of exporting its poverty to another nation and an added bonus of siphoning funds in the process through remittances.
The Bell Curve is very true.
While the better nutrition in the US will help the kids born here, it’s still not something to look forward to.
Maybe the US should start to let in more people from Europe.
Diversity beats intelligence. It also beats hard work, obeying the law, morality. I know this ‘cause the liberals told me so.
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Progs: “Give us your violent, your lazy, and your moronic.”
“Maybe the US should start to let in more people from Europe.”
That’s racist.../s
“The Bell Curve is very true.”
A truism that cannot be said publicly....
“Diversity beats intelligence.”
In the leftist mind it does indeed.
Diversity and Multi-culturalism are the swords with which they seek to slice asunder the successful and functioning Western Nations.
A win/win for Mexico but a lose/lose for the U.S.
The IQ divide is not, strictly speaking, a racial issue; it is a latitude issue - simply put, indigenous populations from the Southern parts of the globe have markedly lower IQs than the “Northern Peoples”.
The reason for this isn’t clear, but probably has to do with the stress on the human population that occurred during the last Ice Age.
While the Southern regions of the world suffered mild effects at worst, the Northern peoples of Europe and Asia were pushed much harder by the encroaching ice cap and dropping temperatures that made “survival of the fittest” an evolutionary imperative.
Hence the highest IQs are found among the people descended from those populations that were most geographically affected by the last Ice Age - Northern Europe, China, Japan.
These are the regions that produce the highest national IQs today.
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