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.
“Give us your violent, your lazy, and your moronic.”
And then they talk of “White Privilege”.
It’s a great deal for Mexico. They send in their impoverished and criminal class into the U.S. where they get free medical care along with benefits if they can produce an anchor baby.
Remittances galore sent back to Mexico while the Mexican Mafia takes over border areas ready for a future reconquista.
Fro the most part, I fully agree.
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It will still get out and be known.
What’s up with Africa and the Middle East, nobody immigrating there?
You really need to read THE BELL CURVE.
But in those regions where the seasons change dramatically, you need to do much more planning to survive. You develop a calendar, astronomy, mathematics. You develop sturdier architecture. You invent agriculture. From that comes geography, law, the development of a military. Brain becomes more important than brawn.
The Lily-White Euro Elite of Mexico wants to dump their indigenous population on the US.
You obviously watched "Connections". It all started with the invention of the plow.
“That doesn’t explain the high IQs amongst the Jews.”
Ashkenazim, originally from Europe, have higher IQs than Mediterranean Sephardi.
Check out the IQ of Israel, quite a bit lower than Europe.
Which is why the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was once the most powerful kingdom in Europe, thanks to Kazimierz the Great, who welcomed the Jews to Poland.
And the Sephardim ( who came from Spain & Portugal, then from South Amderica to what is now the USA, in colonial times...were hardly "Mediterranean" ) who came to America only a little bit later than the Brits who came on the MAYFLOWER, all had extremely high IQ; not to mention that they and their descendants did extremely well here.
And if you want to look at history, the Middle East was where the first GREAT civilizations were. Granted, the Persians weren't Semites, but Caucasoids, but all of Europe and Asia were knuckle dragging nothings, at that time.
And then there's Ur of the Chaldees, where Abraham came from.
And then there are the Indians from North, South, and Central Americans, not to mention the Inuit and Eskimos, who all descend from Asians, but never got much beyond the Stone Age. All of which blows YOUR theory completely to hell.
Common Core?
Maybe the US should start to let in more people from Europe.
Clinton limited the number of Europeans who could emigrate here in favor of having more “brown” people of whatever race.
Wishful thinking about mestizos coming in hordes
*google cartel atrocities
Never fear, here comes clock boy!
Thanks for posting this. I saw the article and thought it appropriate for discussion, but forgot....
Caucasians have low IQ?
Except that would be people from Pakistan, Algeria, Uzbekistan, via Germany, if we ever get another Dim maladministration. I’d favor 80% quota by an English test. Although many Europeans learn English quickly via immersion.
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