An excellent analysis. A wise man once said that economics may trump politics, but culture trumps everything. Western culture, in particular English culture is the source of almost all of the technological advancement we have seen in the last half millennium.
I am a believer in the bell curve, and also that distribution of raw intelligence does vary between racial groups. But those differences are not nearly large enough to account for the fact that one set of nations is placing objects and people in outer space, while in another group of nations people are still pushing goats around with a stick.
Indeed, if we use the Americas as an example, it becomes clear that culture trumps even race. North America, the U.S. and Canada, were largely settled by a people who practiced English values. Later immigrants from Ireland, Germany and other countries were required to adopt those values. The U.S. and Canada are largely prosperous. Compare that with Mexico, Central America and South America, which were not so much settled as colonized by people with a Spanish or Portuguese cultural outlook at a time when these countries were still feudal societies. These countries are relatively undeveloped and backward, even though some of them, such as Argentina have very large European populations.
Differences are even visible in Caribbean island nations that are racially similar. Compare Jamaica (English) with Haiti (French) or Cuba (Spanish).
When a native population complains about mass migration the first response from cultural elites is to accuse the people of racism. While race can at times be used as a proxy for culture, it is really the cultural change that a native population objects to, not the racial demographic.
An excellent analysis. A wise man once said that economics may trump politics, but culture trumps everything. Western culture, in particular English culture is the source of almost all of the technological advancement we have seen in the last half millennium.
I am a believer in the bell curve, and also that distribution of raw intelligence does vary between racial groups. But those differences are not nearly large enough to account for the fact that one set of nations is placing objects and people in outer space, while in another group of nations people are still pushing goats around with a stick.
Indeed, if we use the Americas as an example, it becomes clear that culture trumps even race. North America, the U.S. and Canada, were largely settled by a people who practiced English values. Later immigrants from Ireland, Germany and other countries were required to adopt those values. The U.S. and Canada are largely prosperous. Compare that with Mexico, Central America and South America, which were not so much settled as colonized by people with a Spanish or Portuguese cultural outlook at a time when these countries were still feudal societies. These countries are relatively undeveloped and backward, even though some of them, such as Argentina have very large European populations.
Differences are even visible in Caribbean island nations that are racially similar. Compare Jamaica (English) with Haiti (French) or Cuba (Spanish).
When a native population complains about mass migration the first response from cultural elites is to accuse the people of racism. While race can at times be used as a proxy for culture, it is really the cultural change that a native population objects to, not the racial demographic.