January 15, 2010It's almost amusing to watch Marxist professors dream up compelling new excuses for the failure of /every single/ black nation; they always sound so sensible and intelligent. It is less amusing to see their students mindlessly regurgitate it with a straight face. And yet, for all their detailed references to factors we never considered, it would be impossible to imagine an illiterate population of racially Asian, White or even Mestizo slaves inhabiting a resource-rich island *remain* such a basket case of brutality and misery after /hundreds/ of years of independence, regardless of the mean policies of bigger nations nearby. Economic history demonstrates that if a state can produce /anything/ of use to another state, no amount of diplomatic pressure from its most powerful enemy can scare off /everybody/ from conducting trade with that state. It just doesn't add up. This is why all such Marxist (egalitarian) academic hot-air is always ultimately topped off with the only plausible excuse for the /universal/ failure of African blacks of west sub-Saharan extraction: the "racism" of others.
RE: Why is Haiti so Poor?
by James Williams
http://news.discovery. com/history/ why-is-haiti- so-poor.html
Dear ReportersNotebook:
If we agree that we evolved from lesser humans, a necessary step if we evolved from lower mammals, reptiles, fish and so on, in that order (we did), then we admit that such a creature as a lower human is possible, from which would follow that such a creature is contemporarily possible, and this is something admitted nowhere in modern academia. Any anthropology professor will tell you, bitterly if she must, that all intelligence is a matter of nurture. If we admit the conceptual possibility of a concentration of humans of lesser intelligence or reduced capacity for civilization (foresight, delayed gratification)
If it is pure coincidence, and Marxist theories of racism and post-colonial trauma legacies are to blame, why were other groups, equally subject to these forces, most notably the southeast Asian colonies, able to get it together and succeed? Can white racism really account for the failure of Haiti, a nation occupying half of an island, the other, infinitely more prosperous half of which differs essentially /only/ in racial composition? If racism alone explains the failure of American blacks over 150 years, why have Mexicans, with a near-equally tragic "culture of violence," who started with /nothing/ in this country only thirty or fewer years ago, surpassed blacks in every single economic category, despite the trillion white tax dollars poured into special programs for these (even largely genetically moderated) blacks? Why is it that despite separation by thousands of miles, hundreds of years, language barriers, different religions and host cultures, blacks retain identical and instantly recognizable physical mannerisms and behavior patterns? If racism is 'taught' by xenophobic parents who fear change and people who are different, if it has nothing to do with the experience with blacks of the often powerless "racists," who teach it, why are African blacks avoided by all other races to a degree none of these races avoids each other? If xenophobia is the basis of racism, why do the same white people who would think almost nothing of a sibling marrying an Asian person, experience hushed shock if she is to marry a /half/-black man? Why would any impoverished Asian fisherman be far more disturbed if his daughter were to marry an employed African man than he would be if she were to marry an unemployed white man?
I would like James Williams or whatever ivory tower genius helped him prepare his comic masterpiece to answer these questions.
Neil
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Recent research shows the importance of cognitive ability to macroeconomic outcomes.
Populations show different average levels, which robustly predict economic performance.
'The impact of smart fractions, cognitive ability of politicians and average competence of peoples on social development' Rindermann et al Talent Development & Excellence
Vol. 1, No. 1, 2009, 3-25
http://iratde.org/issues/1-2009/tde_issue_1-2009_03_rindermann_et_al.pdf
Future gene research may identify reasons for this:
"We will also identify the many genes that create physical and mental differences across populations, and we will be able to estimate when those genes arose. Some of those differences probably occurred very recently, within recorded history. Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending argued in "The 10,000 Year Explosion" that some human groups experienced a vastly accelerated rate of evolutionary change within the past few thousand years, benefiting from the new genetic diversity created within far larger populations, and in response to the new survival, social and reproductive challenges of agriculture, cities, divisions of labour and social classes. Others did not experience these changes until the past few hundred years when they were subject to contact, colonisation and, all too often, extermination.
If the shift from GWAS to sequencing studies finds evidence of such politically awkward and morally perplexing facts, we can expect the usual range of ideological reactions, including nationalistic retro-racism from conservatives and outraged denial from blank-slate liberals. The few who really understand the genetics will gain a more enlightened, live-and-let-live recognition of the biodiversity within our extraordinary species-including a clearer view of likely comparative advantages between the world's different economies."
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14742737
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