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Is lower intelligence the reason why Africans/blacks fail to thrive in the west on average?
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<blockquote data-quote="bucky" data-source="post: 1331557" data-attributes="member: 10588"><p>Exactly. I'm willing to admit there may be exceptions here and there and I'm very willing to be patient with those who can't see it because I resisted buying the sun people/ice people theory myself for years, but it seems obvious to me now.</p><p></p><p>This is not to say that I consider people from advanced first world countries inherently superior to third worlders or more valuable in the eyes of God or anything like that. Like I said above, my wife's country is a miserable place, widely recognized as one of the more terrible and hopeless places in Latin America, but it wasn't always like that. It was once a safe place with very little crime or hunger, and relatively prosperous for that part of the world. Then, for reasons I don't entirely understand, it was decided that a population made up mostly of Mayans and other indigenous Americans should give up what was working for them and adopt a system of government painstakingly developed by Anglo-Saxons and other western Europeans over the course of centuries in an entirely different place and culture, and the country fell apart. It's so stupid it would almost be funny if the results weren't so tragic and the suffering it caused so terrible.</p><p></p><p>One thing that occurred to me when I was living in my wife's country is how the size of the country in square miles and the size of the population is very similar to Switzerland, another place where I've lived. The main tangible difference would be that Switzerland has much, much less useful land and natural resources. According to civnat logic, people in my wife's country could just adopt the Swiss system of government and Swiss business and economic practices, and they'd eventually have Swiss levels of prosperity. Does anyone really believe that places like Guatemala and Honduras will ever be like Switzerland? It's a ridiculous idea, it obviously wouldn't work, and what's more, Central Americans would be even more miserable trying to be Swiss than they are already, because they would be trying to live in a way that's utterly alien to them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bucky, post: 1331557, member: 10588"] Exactly. I'm willing to admit there may be exceptions here and there and I'm very willing to be patient with those who can't see it because I resisted buying the sun people/ice people theory myself for years, but it seems obvious to me now. This is not to say that I consider people from advanced first world countries inherently superior to third worlders or more valuable in the eyes of God or anything like that. Like I said above, my wife's country is a miserable place, widely recognized as one of the more terrible and hopeless places in Latin America, but it wasn't always like that. It was once a safe place with very little crime or hunger, and relatively prosperous for that part of the world. Then, for reasons I don't entirely understand, it was decided that a population made up mostly of Mayans and other indigenous Americans should give up what was working for them and adopt a system of government painstakingly developed by Anglo-Saxons and other western Europeans over the course of centuries in an entirely different place and culture, and the country fell apart. It's so stupid it would almost be funny if the results weren't so tragic and the suffering it caused so terrible. One thing that occurred to me when I was living in my wife's country is how the size of the country in square miles and the size of the population is very similar to Switzerland, another place where I've lived. The main tangible difference would be that Switzerland has much, much less useful land and natural resources. According to civnat logic, people in my wife's country could just adopt the Swiss system of government and Swiss business and economic practices, and they'd eventually have Swiss levels of prosperity. Does anyone really believe that places like Guatemala and Honduras will ever be like Switzerland? It's a ridiculous idea, it obviously wouldn't work, and what's more, Central Americans would be even more miserable trying to be Swiss than they are already, because they would be trying to live in a way that's utterly alien to them. [/QUOTE]
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