How White Men Conquered the World
It’s not by hypocrisy that the playing field isn’t level. It’s by necessity.
- Xenocrates
The greatest conquerors of the old (and new) world are white. Why is that?
Have you ever wondered how is it that white folks essentially control the vast majority of the power in the world? I’ve heard many theories on the subject, from Afrocentric philosophers to white supremacists – all of which have gaping holes in their logic. The answer is deceptively simple. This time, it’s nurture that has compelled nature in the most profound way possible.
Stating the Obvious
I usually need to do a one paragraph preamble to ward off stoic trolls, because unfortunately, most people don’t understand the purpose of language and so instead of getting caught in yet another debate about semantics versus material, let me state the obvious. I don’t believe in race superiority. I believe in genetic advantage. Race and genetics are mutually exclusive, since unlike the latter, the former doesn’t exist. If you don’t understand this, then read no further.
Thanks.
Genetic Advantage?
When I speak of Genetic Advantage, I’m referring to a specific expression of the human genotype (i.e., a phenotype) that has the greatest advantage in the current environmental configuration. No individual phenotype is intrinsically advantageous (meaning no race is inherently superior), since that is determined entirely by variable environmental conditions.
That’s why Hitler was wrong about Aryan Supremacy (from a scientific point of view).
If the environment changes, then the current dominant phenotype will be immediately put in a precarious position, as the advantage would slowly shift to another – which is exactly what has been happening over the last 200 years. In another 100 years, the current dominant human phenotype will be relegated to second place, because the environment is changing.
Necessary Deprecation
Before we continue, I thought it necessary to establish the necessary deprecation of two words: “Race” and “Caucasian”. Why? Because the word “race” has no intrinsic scientific value. It describes a set of features that were functions of group migration across the environment. Many, many more races are possible. Our environment is just too limited to expose them all. Additionally, people of mixed descent are not socially recognized by the word.
There are eight classes of Caucasians as described by the Meyers-Blitz Lexikon (1932), which are (from left to right, top down) Nordic, Dinaric, Mediterranean, Alpine, East Baltic, Turks, Bedouins and Afghans.
Secondly, the word “Caucasian” arose out of the theory that all white people emerged from a region between Europe and Iran called Caucasus, and it describes a very wide range of ethnic groups. Caucasians include most fair skinned “races”, which automatically includes anyone who has the skull structure, if not the corresponding skin color. Thus, Aryans, Indians and Arabs are all considered Caucasian – only to establish Aryans as white and the rest as not.
This type of controversial classification only has social value. Words that only have social value tend to become abused to fit phobic agendas (such as racism) and thus are inherently loaded. Similarly, describing Negroes as “People of African descent” is inherently fallacious, as proven by The Genographic project, confirming the theory that all of mankind is of African descent.
So how did white men conquer the world, exactly? Through several functions of cause and effect which occurred in a specific sequence that would create that effect, starting out with:
Genetic Mutation
Blue Eyes are one of the most distinctive genetic mutations in humans.
The phenotype commonly referred to as Caucasians has many more conspicuous, traceable mutations (such as white skin and blue eyes) in the last 20 – 50 thousand years than all the others. Where as other phenotypic group expressions (commonly referred to as “races”) differ primarily in orthopedic, (and more specifically, cranial) qualities, there are enough variations in Europeans to functionally deprecate any further use of the words “race” and “Caucasian“.
White people are uniquely different from virtually all other phenotypic groups in that the genetic mutations that created them are vastly more distinct. They constitute a larger number of diverse physical characteristics that are not as subtle as the variations that exist in other groups. Thus, the prevalence of white people across the world speaks to what many scientists believe to be natural selection due to the perception of an apparent innovative survivability by female mates within the group of this distinct phenotype, giving generational prominence.
This is why blue and green eyes, fair skin, blond, brown and red straight hair became the standard qualities that describe people of this group. Virtually all of these qualities are genetic mutations that were simply given preference over most others when they first occurred, thus giving them a greater degree of ubiquity in the group than the other existing permutations.
Environmentally fueled Cognition
Now while the genetic filtration process occurred in Africa due to migration, those who had migrated north found more favorable ground in which to propagate their groups as Africa had changed. The once northern temperate zones passed closer to the equator due to continental shift, making the continent less hospitable to fertile produce, agriculture and livestock.
Those who migrated north found cooler, more temperate zones where their cognition could develop at a normal pace as the nutritional support was far better. If all migratory groups had the same nutritional opportunities, no single group would have a stronger cognitive pulse. Those who remained in Africa could not have nurtured as favorably as the northern folk, and so the vicious cycle of nature compelling nurture, produced in Europe what it didn’t in Africa:
Civilization
It is fair to say that civilization evolved out of the lands north of Africa first. In fact, from what we know, civilization erupted in the middle east long before it got anywhere else in the dark continent. The further north humans got, the more advanced their civilizations became. It’s the same humans in each group. However, any group migrating out of Africa got a jump start.
This is why after 60,000 years of evolution, the northern folks were able to revisit Africa in their now finely refined, fair skinned, brown haired, blue eyed, cotton clad, gun toting, sea faring, gold digging, monarchy backed personas, only to see their fellow humans in almost the same position they left them 60,000 years earlier living in relatively primitive civilizations.
Absolute Conquest
When the fair skinned humans noticed the obvious intellectual, social and economic disparity between the societies they came from and the societies (for lack of a better word) in which they found their African brothers, they assumed, unscientifically, that they were superior. Naturally, this created a superiority complex among the Europeans rediscovering Africa.
Little did our fair skinned brothers realize (they would not have discovered DNA and genetics for another 500 years) that the reason for the disparity is not intrinsic to their culture (or nature), but rather was merely a reflection of a very slight advantage their long forgotten fore fathers had, that they weren’t even aware of. The rest is history: Slavery, Racism, Apartheid.
For black folks reading this, the fair skinned men from the northern lands weren’t the first to enslave darker skinned humans. That was just the most recent case. In fact, Africans have been enslaved at least five times in world history. At the very least, the Arabs, Greeks, Persians, Romans and various European nations such as Portugal and Holland all chipped in.
As a result, the darker men in Africa constantly had their culture being rebooted every 500 – 2,000 years by their smarter, more cognitively evolved, fairer skinned northern land dwelling brothers. Some 700 years later, Africa is still trying to play catch up to the rest of the world, as it desperately tries to recover from the repeated culture rape of the last 5,000 years or so.
Now that Africa was sore, the status quo had been established.
The Status Quo
This is perhaps the most important step in world domination for our fair skinned northern brothers. The white man had not only demonstrated his raw cognitive, military and social superiority to the Africans, but an offshoot of his y-chromosome that migrated to the far east was also no stranger to the Europeans’ firm leather boots. The Asians were next on the list.
Having established a Status Quo throughout Europe, battling among themselves for about 1000 years, using everything from fire to religion and then milking the dark continent of its ore and its physically superior, but cognitively inferior denizens, making an impact on the far east wasn’t too hard. Besides, their kung-fu was no match for a few ships armed with cannons.
After Africa and Asia fell under the boot of their fairer skinned brothers, they decided that the rest of the world needed conquering. So they mounted ships and repeated everything they did in Africa over the last 4,000 years to the y-chromosome cousins of the Asians in Northern, Central and Southern America. As they’ve done this before, it was second nature by now.
Concordantly, this is why:
We speak European languages
With each act of conquest, the white man proceeded to impart to all of his conquered subjects his ways, his science, his art, his philosophy, his language, his governance structure, the appreciation of his women as the de facto standard of beauty, his technology, his education, thereby matriculating the rest of the world over the next 400 years into his standards.
Aside from genetics, one of the distinctive differences between ethnic groups, is language. If you’re not white and you’re reading this, then you are a living example of the superiority of Europe. To demonstrate this effectively, I invite you to consider the following anecdote: A friend asked me recently: “How many languages do you speak?” I then responded as follows:
- Ich spreche Deutsches (German)
- Nihongo ga wakarimasu (Japanese)
- Je parle Français (French)
- Hablo español, y… (Spanish)
- I speak English
They thought that was really impressive – but I was somewhat ashamed. Why? Because I don’t know a single word of Swahili. I know the languages of some of the cultures that made their mark upon the world, but I didn’t know any of the languages of my origin. Though to be fair, Africa is teeming with indigenous tongues. The average educated African speaks about three or four languages. Never the less, the ubiquity of European languages speaks volumes.
It says that:
The world is defined by European standards
Images like this often send the wrong message to young black women about beauty.
I’ve had Asian friends complain about the invasion of China by the west, when China uses a system of government white men invented. It’s the same way how black folks complain that racism inhibited black people, even though they don’t have to worry about yellow fever, and are earning six figure salaries in white run companies. The hypocrisy is hilarious, to say the least, since China owes its wealth to America and Africans living in the west are not as poor.
It’s the same reason why most western black people would never return to Africa, why Latinos are trying to escape Mexico, why you’re Asian and you don’t know a single word in Chinese, or why your government is no longer run by a Monarchy or a religious elite. White people have reformed our thinking and given us the ability to think about things in a wholly different way.
It is not surprising that our education systems, our governments, our politics, our clothing, the technology we use, the sports we play, many of our cultural idiosyncrasies and much of the music we love is largely based on European standards. Europeans and their descendants have defined much of what you now come to take for granted, because it was “always there“.
That’s why complaining about the hypocrisy and inequality between races is an intrinsically redundant argument. It is not by hypocrisy that the playing field isn’t level. It’s by necessity. I know this sounds Machiavellian from the outset, but all peoples needed to evolve out of their barbarianism sooner or later. Whites just got there first and are now spreading that around.
If white men had not intervened when they did, many peoples would still be living in primitive societies plagued by dangerous diseases and barbaric cultural practices. I know you might be thinking that white folks could have done the same thing without the hideous crimes against humanity. Those were certainly regrettable, but all ethnic groups are guilty of the same crime.
The unification of China saw the slaughter and exile of many ethnic Chinese groups that brought the Han Chinese to prominence. The same thing is happening in Africa even today, most recently with the genocide in Darfur and Rwanda. Even prehistoric neanderthals had similar periods of ethnic cleansing. So white people are no more vile than the rest of humanity.
That’s just human nature at work.
However, the humanity that grew out of European influence would not have occurred without the preceding brutality. Human nature is such that the greatest good only occurs after the greatest evil. It would have happened with us too. However, since the environment gave whites the obvious cognitive advantage, they went through those phases before all others.
That’s would consequently explain:
Why other groups have some inferiority complex
Consultants from DFID (right) meet with the Jamaican government (left).
I mentioned once on this blog before that I’ve never seen a black run government hire black consultants to do any kind of work related to social development. The United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) and the Canadian Inter Development Agency are some of the primary sources of social development consultancy in the third world.
There’s a very good reason for that.
European cultures have already gone through hundreds of years of teething pains when it came to social development. Thus, once they solved those problems, they passed it down through generations of documentation, building on their previous knowledge, developing the the first world societies they now live in. Other cultures were still primitives at the same time.
Even so, I’ve seen enough cases where black men in black run governments would much rather give a multi-million dollar consulting contract to white men from a foreign land than to their own black natives. I’ve seen the very same thing in Asia as well. So I know it’s not unique to black people. In fact, the same thing happens in many developing nations across the world.
What really fascinated me though, is that during my high school years, even though we had a very mixed student population, the black kids seemed to develop a certain deeper respect for those of our teachers who were white that wasn’t exactly duplicated for those who were black. I thought it was odd at first, until I saw the black teachers doing the same thing – even for those white teachers whom they supervised. How bizarre is that? I thought that was odd.
It wasn’t until years later during my late teens that I read about a psychological condition called an “inferiority complex” and a corresponding “superiority complex“. Adolf Hitler and his Nazi kin are probably the best demonstration of the latter.
It would appear as though the massively unique number of mutations that generated white men not only served to their advantage among their own kin, but also among the rest of the world. It’s as if their collective inferiority complex caused them to subconsciously hand the keys of the world to the white man. It was Africans who sold blacks into slavery. The same thing happened in Asia. Everyone who has ever blamed white people for the world’s problems seems to forget those small historical details. They didn’t take it away. It was given to them.
That’s what has in turn created:
The Brain Drain on the third world
In many third world nations, being educated at a local university is not quite as prestigious as graduating from one in North America or Europe – even though the course content is exactly the same in most cases. The thing is that when people migrate north to study, they rarely return home to implement their knowledge. It’s white folks working as volunteers who do that.
Oh, the irony.
So while the smartest people who are born in backwater towns are the best hope of that town moving into the modern age, they are often forced to find work in the northern lands because they are either threatened by crime or economic stagnation. This is why universities in first world nations are offering full scholarships to the brightest living in the third world.
This not only robs the third world of its smartest people, but it creates a one way road into first world economies, making them even stronger and more powerful. I honestly can’t blame them. Bright people tend to have very little patience with troglodytes. I can especially relate because of cases where brilliant third world personalities are snuffed out by crime because their foreign ideas threatened the businesses in their home state that refused to innovate.
That would never happen to a white man coming into the community to do the same thing though. The biggest companies in the world are owned by people of European descent. So even where a third world local fails to implement his innovative ideas in his country due the collective ignorance of his countrymen, white men will be able to do just that without any resistance at all. The inferiority complex of the natives is what gives the white men that power.
It is no small wonder then that:
There is White Privilege
I watch the BBC a lot – largely because of their highly educational documentaries – particularly the Horizon series. One of the things I’ve gleaned from the BBC is how white men can literally go to any part of the world and they will be given the right of way. Even the local authorities in some countries seem to defer to the “appearance” of authority inherent in visiting white men.
Racial profiling is practically nonexistent on white people. I have never heard of any other group of humans that has enslaved Caucasians – aside from when it was done by other Caucasians (the Barbary Slave Trade). This means that unlike Negroes, Asians and other phenotypic expressions, there is virtually no time in recorded history where a substantial portion of the white race was disenfranchised because of the colour of their skin. Not even World War II’s atrocities matched that of the Atlantic African slave trade.
Never the less, I can only imagine that for the most part, it must feel good to be white given the rest of the world’s inherent delusion that the biological qualities of the Europeans are anything more than just biological. So although third world governments are free of colonial rule, they still defer to their colonial masters, completely misreading their assertive nature.
Accountability
But let us avoid denial: Who was brave enough to sail across the seemingly flat surface of the Earth to discover the New World? Who do you see hanging with the Gorillas in the mist? Who is exploring the deepest darkest corners of the Oceans and daring to explore the cold dark expanse of space? White men. You rarely ever see any other ethnic group doing these things.
Love or hate them, we owe a great deal of our cognitive evolution to white men. But let us not get distracted. Any group of humans that migrated out of Africa to the north west would have evolved into fair skinned, blue eyed, brown haired explorers extraordinaire. The environment is what facilitated the genetic mutations. Technically, any phenotypic expression of the human genotype can produce any other. They weren’t white while they were primitive tribes in Africa.
Either way, none of that matters anymore.
Conclusively
The impending ubiquity of technology has effectively shrunken the world. While great divides still exist economically between white societies and all others, the rest of the world has finally caught up with the cognitive levels of white men – and white men are to be thanked for that. It is they who after all have educated the rest of the world on their social advancements.
No longer does the USA hold a monopoly on economies of scale nor is it the manufacturing center of the world. China now has that honor. The greatest minds in the world may still be mostly white, but now those great minds include Africans, Asians, Hispanics and every other variation of humanity in between. This is how whites have ultimately redeemed themselves.
Make no mistake though – white people still rule the world. The only thing changing this, is that there is a limitation to cognitive evolution. The more educated a group becomes, the more interested it will be in the pursuit of knowledge and the less interested it will be in the pursuit of procreation. White populations around the world, from America to Europe, are dwindling.
This is the change that will ultimately unseat the dominant phenotype – maybe not in our lifetimes, but certainly eventually. White populations are not expanding as quickly as that of other groups – most notably people of Asian, Latin and Negro descent. If the rate of cognitive evolution remains the same and the negative population growth of Europeans is unmitigated, we may very well see a successful shift in the dominant phenotype from Europeans to Asians.
Even so, this is not a cause for concern. There will always be white people around. That their populations are shrinking is only a function of being the first to civilize. That will be the fate of all distinct human groups. For as I said before, no phenotype is inherently superior by design. The perception is a fallacy based on the deceptive evolutionary impact of the environment.
Genetic advantage is a fleeting thing.
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The flaw in your logic is to assume all white nations are responsible for innovation and that they somehow were building off each other’s achievements. As Jake put it, most technology has been shared since the ancient world by all races. The only reason for this idea that “white” society rules the world is due to the British Empire dominance followed by the United States; who in the modern era had the ability to control the global media. But as you put it; this will change. Yet, you seem to indicate that China will fail since its accomplishments will be weighed against all White cultures that existed? I don’t follow this logic. How can one nation be compared to an entire phenotype?
I do agree that there is no equality in the world. In fact, no two people are created equal. Equality is a perception, just like believing that if you’re white, you’ve been endowed with superior genes. Honestly, I can answer your question why few blacks were in your advanced classes: they lacked the resources.
Hey Jack,
Thanks for commenting. I have a few rebuttals:
Nowhere in this post does it make this assumption. I think that’s an assumption you draw from your own reading. Where did I make this insinuation?
That’s not the only reason. The vast majority of modern innovations over the last 200 years (and even beyond) originated among white societies. Almost everything from the automobile to the internet is an undeniably white creation. There’s no doubt that some of it was inspired (read: stolen) from other phenotypes, but the vast majority was created by white people.
All the white people in the world, North America and all of Europe combined, including those in various other regions, are only a fraction of the total population of China.
Actually, that explanation is inadequate. Why? Because the tuition to the university is the same for all students. They can pick what classes and majors they will pursue. The vast majority of black students steer clear of STEM subjects and virtually NONE of them pick the advanced classes.
Cheers,
Xen
Isn’t this anecdotal evidence? White people have never conquered REAL Asia. It is their greatest fear and will be their downfall. In fact, it’s happening as we live and breathe. He who controls wealth, controls the world.
It’s been shown to my satifaction that yes, all humans come from a place we now call Africa. Neandethalensis migrated northward long before modern humans, and fluorished (in their own sparse way) all over Europe and Asia. It’s not important how people got “white,” because it’s academic. The question is why some people’re more curious than others — indeed why they left ancient Africa, and the gravity of this question must not be skewed.
Hello. I stumbled upon your blog through a Google search while trying to find information on Native Americans and a statement of yours brought a question to my mind.
Your statement: “Those who migrated north found cooler, more temperate zones where their cognition could develop at a normal pace as the nutritional support was far better. If all migratory groups had the same nutritional opportunities, no single group would have a stronger cognitive pulse. Those who remained in Africa could not have nurtured as favorably as the northern folk, and so the vicious cycle of nature compelling nurture, produced in Europe what it didn’t in Africa.”
My question: Why didn’t the Native Americans prosper and progress? The enviroment on the North American eastern and western seaboards as well as the central plains is ideal Their diet was rich in protein, be it fish, buffalo or wild game. Where do the “Native” Americans fit into all of this? I would be very interested in hearing your thoughts. Thanks!
Hi Jane,
Sorry for taking so long to respond, first of all. I’ve been busy with other projects.
You ask a very good question and I’ve actually answered this in the comments a lot earlier. The Native Americans are a derivative of the Asian phenotype. The mutations that occurred in the Caucasian and Asian phenotypes did not get a chance to recur as frequently in the Native American phenotypes because while they were still migrating through North, Central and South America, the Caucasian and Asian phenotypes had already settled, built families, cities and empires throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
Settlement is key here. Had the Native Americans populated America just as fast as the other phenotypes populated the old continents, then it is likely that similar mutations would have occurred by now. However, a second factor is at work here. The more a group migrates, the less of the total gene stock will exist in each settlement. This means that the migration of these groups took less and less of the original Asian DNA, which caused not only changes in appearance but in cultural temperament and technological development as well.
Xen
Zen, I’ve been following your discussion with Jake here. I am entirely familiar with your worldview on this topic as I have seen it countless times on “HBD” sites and even outright racist white supremacist sites. It sounds as though you believe in a sort of non-racist white supremacy based on what you see to be objective fact, which is essentially the position of the HBD community. I’m not here to challenge the rightness of your worldview here, what I ask is how do you as a black man find any room for pride in yourself or your own racial/ethnic group if you believes blacks were pretty much destined to be at the bottom and are incapable of competing with other races? Do you have any form of racial pride? I don’t see how you can believe the HBD world view and not have it effect your self-worth and self-esteem as a person of African descent. If you have found some brilliant way to reconcile the two, I’d love for you to share it.
Sir Tulio,
Thanks for being the first to ask a reasonably objective question on the discussion.
Let me first obtain a bit of clarification. When you say “HBD”, are you referring to Human Biodiversity?
So I think it would be less confrontational to frame my response as a series of questions:
Firstly, who says this is my worldview and not an obvious fact?
Is it really a mystery that white people run the annals of power in the world? Are black people really living under such a rock of self delusion such that they don’t realize that their language, culture, government, science, technology and even their finance is dominated by white people? Are we really blind to the fact that the most powerful and most developed countries in the world are run by whites? Are we really that delusional to the fact that the most powerful militaries in the world are owned by white governments? Why is this not obvious to some black people?
Perhaps your next question gives us a clue on this.
Secondly, why can’t I have any racial pride because I’m black?
Are black people struggling with the fact that whites run the world because they feel a corresponding sense of depreciation? Is it that black people blind themselves with afrocentrism because the fact that white people rule the world is too hard a pill to swallow? Are black people really so depressed about being black that they would rather believe a lie than face the facts? Are we even living on the same planet?
Why can’t I be proud of all of the stellar black people who have lived throughout history (and are still alive today)? We may not be tops in science, technology, engineering and math, but we dominate the fields of sport, music and cultural evolution. Black people are the most genetically biodiverse human phenotype. Science has repeatedly shown that the black phenotype is the root of all others. Black people are the first and oldest surviving implementation of Homo Sapiens (modern man). Africa is the root of all humanity. It is literally the mother of the modern human race and the primary source of the world’s most valuable minerals. Why aren’t more black folks aware of this? Or is it that this is not enough for them?
Finally, why should my self worth and self esteem be inextricably linked to a lack of black performance in STEM fields?
I have never understood why black people feel worthless because the lack of top predator status. I have never understood the need to reconcile my sense of self worth with our lack of world dominance. This is something that I have always struggled to understand. I simply don’t get it. What kind of weed are the rest of you black people smoking that has gotten you so cut up about being third best on the planet in a specific set of fields? Is your sense of self worth really that reliant on being top predator? If so, THAT’S PATHETIC.
I have said this once and I’ll say it again:
There is only one race: The Human Race. The phenotypic properties of the human genotype is such that various environmental conditions accentuate certain properties of the human genome depending on where you live. There is no strict demarcation of these properties between human phenotypes. What you are seeing is nothing more than a correlation between environment and phenotype.
White people who live in the northern parts of the world tend to be higher performers in STEM fields largely because of what appears to be a correlation with the environment. White people who live closer to the equator tend to have lower performance levels. The same correlation appears in Black people who migrate towards the north (Where they will be a minority).
Notice that most of the Blacks in America seem to live in the South. Coincidence? I think not. Black people who live further north show the same correspondence of higher performance in STEM fields. We just don’t notice it because their cognitive performance averages are leveled out by blacks living in the south.
By contrast, black people who live closer to the equator (like most blacks from West African descent) tend to outperform all other phenotypes in areas of sport. All American, Jamaican and central African sprinters share the same phenotypic properties. Most American footballers, basketballers, etc. also share the same phenotypic properties. Coincidence? Again, I think not.
The point I’m trying to make here (and I hope you all are paying attention), is that these characteristics are not intrinsic to a phenotype. Once a descendant of a particular human phenotype migrates to a different region in the world, their corresponding performance is affected by the environmental conditions in that part of the world. Where that performance gains or wanes depends on what performance levels are required for that environmental region. That’s the beauty about the human race: WE ARE ADAPTABLE.
With that said, white people were distilled in their appearance due to a series of mutations that occurred in this northern temperate region of the world. It’s a function of spontaneous mutation that occurs in black people ALL THE TIME (e.g. where black people have white babies). However, that the mutation occurred in the northern temperate zones of the earth was merely FORTUITOUS. That’s it. They got lucky by mutating in the right place at the right time. The rest is history.
With that knowledge, I know that personally being black doesn’t limit my capacity for performance in STEM fields. Even though my white colleagues often out perform me in the same areas, I am not in any way envious of them since I know that Environment & DNA play a role in that. Their performance however is specific to their implementation of the Caucasian phenotype and is not intrinsic to the Caucasian race. If this were true, then guys like Neil Degrasse Tyson and Cornel West (heck and even me) would never exist. Conversely, if it were true, then there would be no racists in the American South since most people would have the same level of intelligence. Studies shows that racists are genetically stupid. That would explain the rednecks of the white race.
Following me so far?
Concordantly, that’s why you guys should lay off those white supremacist websites. White supremacists tend to thrive in the American south where stupid is a way of life. You’re only letting their nonsense get into your heads and fuzz with your thinking. DON’T LET THEM GET INTO YOUR HEADS. Your skin colour is not a disability. It’s simply a version of humanity. Anyone (especially anyone white) who has told you any differently is a LIAR who is insecure about his own race and is trying to use reverse psychology to get black people to think less of themselves.
So relax. Being black is not a curse. It’s just one of the many possible colours of human nature – nothing more, nothing less.
All the best,
Xen
Yes. It’s sort of a catch-all phrase being touted that essentially says that different population groups differ on average in their intellectual and physical abilities. Some would say it’s a form of “scientific racism”, some feel it’s not racism at all but just objective truth. They would argue that what sets them apart from normal racists is that they are driven by indifferent scientific inquiry rather than hate and seek to understand why the various “races” don’t produce equal societies.
Fair enough. I don’t think it’s anything less than an obvious fact that whites rule the world. My dad has told me since I was a kid, “it’s a white man’s world” with an undertone of contempt for this fact. It may tread into the world of opinion and worldview however what we consider a “superior” culture. Nearly every culture tends to have a chauvinistic attitude towards other cultures.
It’s not that you can’t have racial pride(though I’m somewhat uncomfortable with the notion of racial pride in the first place given the hell it has unleashed throughout history). I think pride exists on two levels, the individual level and the group level. People can have always have pride in their personal accomplishments and their individual characteristics that make them unique from any other human on this planet. And then you have pride on a group level which may or may not include race. It may include nation, it may include the city you live, your religious affiliation, your social class, etc. While I think your article above is well reasoned, I think the unintended consequence of it is that it will deracinate black racial pride. I know where you are coming from, and I’m not saying that is your objective. I also know that like you always say, nature is indifferent to equality and nature doesn’t care about our feelings and politically correct sensibilities. This article in it’s entirety does imply some rather damning things about our collective capabilities as a group and can only lead one to conclusions that are rather depressing. I would like to see a day when African cities look like Singapore and when disease, crime and mass poverty don’t dominate black majority countries. Is there any hope?
Blacks have only been in America for 400 years and that’s not long enough for the environment to have had any effect on cognitive development. When we speak of whites evolving higher cognitive development we’re talking processes that took tens of thousands of years to get to where they are now. Most blacks were in the south because that’s where slavery occurred. These days only about half the black American population lives in the southern states. Though at the same time those states have the highest proportion of black population.As for people in the north having higher participation in STEM fields, once again, America is a fairly new country, there’s no way 400 years could account for any evolutionary change due to climate. Besides, the south gets cold too, just not AS cold as the north. Anyway, I feel these theories of high intelligence springing from cold condition is dubious. The Indus valley civilization, Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Nubia, Sumeria, Aztecs, Mayans, etc all came from areas near the the equator. The challenge of cold weather didn’t seen to do much for Eskimos, Druids or Ainu.
I don’t want anyone to think that racism is a regional issue. The KKK and Jim Crow had their origin in the south, but segregation took place all over the U.S. Including cities like Boston far to the northeast. The Pacific Northwest is home base for quite a few neo-nazi groups. California has one of the largest population of skinheads in the U.S. Furthermore, most racism is subtle and much more insidious than some toothless redneck marching with a Confederate flag. You won’t see klan rallies in the streets of Los Angeles, but you will see disparate sentencing between crack(mostly used by blacks) and cocaine(mostly used by whites) for example.
In final, I am genuinely glad that you have found a way to be proud, and not the phoney type of pride touted by Afrocentrists. For many blacks though, it will be hard to read an article like this and not come out feeling like they are on the bottom. Once again, I know that’s not your intention.
Sir Tulio,
I totally understand. I don’t expect many black folks to have the capacity to see the world as it is as opposed to how they would like it to be. But I think it is a bit childish (and just a tad narcissistic) to expect the world to be made of tulips and rose beds with a perfectly shined mirror in the middle. With that said, I won’t revise the article to suit anyone black. Even though I am black, it is not my job to pander to people’s insecurities.
As for the correlation between colder climates and Caucasian performance in STEM, if we eliminate the environmental factor (which also seemed to have a similar correlational effect on Asians) then we must accept the only other factor and that is something that no black person will be willing to accept since it implies that there is inherent genetic superiority in the human phenotypes most closely related to Neanderthals.
If they aren’t willing to accept that white people rule the world, how do you think they will take the news that there are some people in the world are just innately smarter than the rest of us? I mean, how mysterious is this? BMWs and Space Ships aren’t being built in Africa. They never have been (and I don’t know if they ever will be). I mean come on. How intentionally blind are we?
Dude, while I was doing my Ph.D., in every advanced class that I’ve seen, from Actuarial Science to Theoretical Physics, the number of black people in the class is usually ZERO. This is not for lack of registration (because they do signup) but they never stick around. I even asked one Actuarial Science professor (who is black) why is it that Black people don’t stay in these classes. His response? “I know the answer to the question, but I’m afraid to say it out loud.”
Just as how I let go of the delusion of religion, black people should learn to let go of the delusion that all men were created equal. All men were not created equal. There is no such thing as equality in the world. That’s just a brutal, cold, unforgiving fact of life. We should all just face it get over it. The sooner we face certain facts and get over it, the less of an emotional impact it will have.
Anyone who still wants to hold on to such delusions needs to grow up – and I say that without apology.
Xen