The severe shortage of women in China has prompted many Chinese men to seek love elsewhere. China already gets oil, copper and other natural resources from the Dark Continent – why not women as well? There is, of course, a natural barrier to Chinese men marrying black African women: The Ugly Gap. East Asian men are among the least sought after males in the world and black African women among the least sought after females in the world – but not in the sense that they would tend to attract each other. It would normally take extraordinary circumstances to bring them together. But there is a solution: Ethiopians. Ethiopians (more specifically Amharic Ethiopians of the North) are heavily Caucasian/Semitic in origin. This makes them more palatable to Chinese men. A post on the blog Evo and proud reports:
In this, China is in the worst situation. On the one hand, it has the most unbalanced sex ratio in East Asia. On the other, its bachelors are poorly positioned in the international marriage market, since they earn much less money than do bachelors in South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. Where can they go to find wives?
The most likely place seems to be sub-Saharan Africa, with Ethiopia being especially likely. With their relatively light skin and fine features, Ethiopian women seem to be the most attractive candidates. Chinese entrepreneurs are also well established in that country. This topic came up on an online thread about Chinese-Ethiopian marriages. One Chinese commenter wrote:
In China the Ethiopian women is revered as a Holy God. Every day we say prayer that God will send us an Ethiopian woman for marriage so that our children are smart, beautiful, and clever like Ethiopia.
Indeed, the Caucasian element within Ethiopians gives some of their women a specific type of beauty that is entirely Ethiopian (but reminiscent of Indians in my opinion).
Amharic Ethiopians seem to be well aware of this element in their ancestry. It is also reflected in their traditional art, for example:
Unfortunately, their 40% Eurasian ancestry doesn’t do much to bring up their average I.Q.; the higher I.Q.’s of Caucasians apparently evolved much later than the back-migration into Africa. How would a racially conscious Chinese man deal with this fact?
Bojing: I think I’m falling for you Makeda; you are the most beautiful woman I have ever met!
Makeda: I am so lucky to have met you Bojing. You are so handsome! Kiss me Bojing!!
Bojing: Here. I brought you some flowers.
Makeda: That is so sweet! Bojing, please marry me and take me back with you to China!
Bojing: There is this little matter of regression to the mean…
Realistically, he would be thinking of her other assets at that point – such as her cooking abilities.
October 23, 2011 at 9:27 am
I laughed out loud at the conversation in the end :D
As for the topic of interracial dating, I’m still surprised why Asian men in general are so rarely sought after. I saw a statistical meta-analysis of various recent interracial dating studies being done.
It’s clear that on the internet, women are extremely racially conservative, at least white and Jewish women, while Asian women actually favour white men ahead of Asian men. This, according to the studies. You can read more here:
http://healthland.time.com/2011/02/22/love-isnt-color-blind-white-online-daters-spurn-blacks/
Unlike most studies, this one had a user base of over a million people, so statistical accuracy is not exactly a problem.
In real life, however, it’s a bit different. There was a study of 400 Columbia graduate students where women of all races had more conservative views of interracial dating than men, given the chance, but where white women showed less(but still heavy) punishment to blacks than on the internet. But most of the punishment went to Asian men, across all race groups except Asian women.
This is odd, because this was a highly educated group. We’re not talking about girls impressed by cheap thugs with fake bling. We’re talking about the intellectual elite in this country. Also, do remember that this is most likely a *very* liberal group of people. Yet, still, Asian men were unpreferred.
I don’t know, it seems women, regardless of intelligence, prefer aggression and emotional intensity instead of stability, kindness and the like.
Of course, most of us learned that in high school (or earlier). It’s just sad to see the stereotype being true all the way up to the highest echelons.
I kinda feel bad for East Asian men(as well as East Indian men). They’re so unliked by all women. Even their own women often show a preferance to white men. White women strongly prefer white men, but not as much as they as on the internet, where they’re basically part of the KKK, when you look at the stats.
October 23, 2011 at 9:33 am
I might add that a personal theory of mine, why white women in general are more willing to date interracially in-person as in the case study of Columbia, than when online is that it’s harder to escape a person. Blacks, hispanics and so on are more aggressive in their pursuit, even if they are often not successful they keep trying and trying etc.
White men on the other hand don’t often push the envelope, and rarely hit on, say, black women. And black women themselves also pay a high social price for dating interracially(I’ve seen it myself up close quite a few times). White men are much more liberal in this sense towards white women, because we’re basically decent, and this allows blacks, latinos and others to get in their faces at a constant basis. At some point, the women’s gotta crack, even if they do so at a much more infrequent rate than many think.
Just 2 % of all married white women are married to another man of another race. And if you look at newlyweds, the number’s 7 % or something, but this includes Asian men, Jewish men and so forth. The ‘negative’ interracial rate for white, European women is most likely below 5 %. Of course, you have the situation of out-of-wedlock born babies, especially with blacks, so the amount of white women under at age 30 who have children with a black/hispanic man is probably higher, perhaps even 7-8 %
I don’t mind personally if there’s racemixing with East Asian men or Jewish men. Just augmenting our genes and in some ways improving them(certainly with Jews, East Asians may be clever but many are very timid and have lowest self-esteem of all races so race-mixing is less clear of a win-win there than with Jews).
October 23, 2011 at 9:38 am
Okay, a lot of posts from me, but I viewed my Time link more carefully now and saw a mistake they made. I’ve actually read the entire study and the impression one gets at the end is that white women and black men are the most usual couple in interracial dating. This is untrue, the reference was to the 1 % of white women who were married to someone else according to the (now old) 2000 census to someone, and they compared if white man/black woman or the other way around was the most common. But this has nothing to do with interracial dating as a wider phenomenon.
While I’m still at it, here’s another study where there are some pictures involved and look for the last picture at the end and be amused is my tip.
http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/your-race-affects-whether-people-write-you-back/
October 23, 2011 at 9:39 am
Fascinating post which concerns a topic of great interest, namely female beauty.
While I’m aware of the average low Ethiopian IQ, I wonder if some of that is due to malnutrition, or something else. One reason I’m a bit skeptical is that Ethiopians appear to have progressed beyond the “mud hut” civilizations of much of Sub Saharan Africa before Europeans arrived. I looked around a bit on the web and couldn’t find more information.
Genetic backflow from China might be a win for Africans, as the Chinese are strong in areas that Africans tend to be weak in, like IQ and conscientiousness. So, it would be best if the Chinese men were to leave China and settle in Ethiopia.
The women pictured are pretty. They look more Caucasian in feature than (West) African. You’re right, somewhat reminiscent of Indian women.
October 29, 2011 at 3:05 pm
I call bullshit on the IQ and conscientiousness, there was a recent survey that put the IQ’s of recent immigrant African people to the U.S as one of the highest, ahead of recent East Asian IQ’s. This sounds like childish, pseudo-scientific, hamster-rationalizing racist bullshit. Its hard for a rational person like me to take blog seriously sometimes when they’re posts like this. But then again, this is a blog about race so what should I expect besides people unleashing their insides.
October 29, 2011 at 5:45 pm
That’s great news! This means they don’t need affirmative action any more and that we can finally do away with such programs.
October 31, 2011 at 11:19 am
African immigrants to America (esp. ones on education visas) are usually >3 sigma above the mean. Absolute cream of the crop. The same effect applies to other immigrants, but to a lesser extent.
November 5, 2011 at 5:08 pm
Don’t buy it. Link needed. I so practically zero Africans in grad school Math/Science/Engineering/CS departments, and tons of Africans driving me across the city.
April 4, 2013 at 7:41 pm
The tests I heard were culturally biased, and something about the test giver being a bozo.
When it comes to here in the USA. I’ve heard people say that Africans have lower IQ, even if the same class as others, but the thing is it’s that people get nervous from stereotypes and worry about screwing up when around people of other generalized races. So there scores are lowered, but when not under pressure they score just as good. The same happens for Europeans & females (esp. in mathematics) when under pressure.
I guess the stereotype comes from many African’s slave ancestors not being very educated, and there ignorance on…let’s say grammar rubs off on the kids..kinda since they would be in school.
@Links Please. Just use google, I’m sure you’ll find.
April 4, 2013 at 11:05 pm
Those claims have been debunked many times over. You’re being misled my friend. Even when the test givers are black, and the other students are black, their scores are lower. There’s not a single academic test of any kind that shows blacks scoring as high as other groups.
As for blacks being nervous because they are stereotyped as being less intelligent, haven’t you watched T.V. or the movies lately? They go out of their way to show blacks as being intellectually/morally superior to whites – and this has been the case for decades.
October 23, 2011 at 12:20 pm
On a related note, many Somali women (the ones who are actual Somalis, not Somali-speaking Bantus) are also quite beautiful.
“Every day we say prayer that God will send us an Ethiopian woman for marriage so that our children are smart, beautiful, and clever like Ethiopia.”
I sort of doubt that this commenter is really Chinese. The Chinese overall tend to be wholly convinced of their superiority as a race and civilization, not just over Africa (for fairly obvious reasons) but also Europeans. I therefore doubt that most Chinese men would long to have their children be “clever like Ethiopia”.
I’ve always been a little puzzled by the poor dating prospects of East Asian men. While East Asian men are not famous for their good looks, they also aren’t famously ugly (as in other qualities, they tend to cluster very tightly around a mean which, in this case, I would rate as being very close to the mean for white men). They’re also unlikely to be in prison, likely to be employed, and unlikely to abandon their wives and children. In other words, they tend to have good “dad” qualities.
I think Steve Sailer probably came up with the most believable explanation, that just as blacks (of both sexes) have higher testosterone levels than whites for respective sexes, whites tend to have higher testosterone than East Asians. This leads to a black>white>Asian hierarchy in perceived masculinity (and thus attractiveness to women), which might explain (along with other factors, like media bias, propaganda, and social pressure), why significant numbers of white and even East Asian women take up with black men, while black women strongly prefer black men, despite their (on average) poor “dad” qualities. By the same token, the same hormonal difference between the races creates a East Asian>white>black hierarchy in perceived femininity, which might explain why so many black men chase white women and some white men chase Asian women. And of course, this probably explains the relative undesirability of East Asian men and black women in dating and marriage. However, culture certainly does matter certainly. Back in the 50s, when interracial breeding rates were much lower, and there was more emphasis on qualities such as the father being a good provider for his family, white male/black female intermarriage, and East Asian male/white female rates of intermarriage, although of course rare, were almost as frequent as black male/white female and white male/East Asian female intermarriage, respectively.
October 23, 2011 at 12:22 pm
“However, culture certainly does matter certainly.”
Ugh. Redundancy. Must proofread more thoroughly.
October 23, 2011 at 3:59 pm
Yes, Iman (David Bowie’s wife) is Somalian: http://africastyledaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Iman.jpg
She was at least 50 when that photo was taken.
October 23, 2011 at 6:11 pm
She’s in awfully good shape for a 50 year old. No plastic surgery?
October 23, 2011 at 12:26 pm
As a.n.animus pointed out, it is not as if Eithopians have been living under optimal environmental conditions, and I would expect that similar to the fact that most Europeans did not realize their genetic potential in height prior to the industrial revolution, most Africans living in Africa face a raft of environmental effects from hookworm to malaria to malnutrition that may prevent them from realizing their genetic potential in intelligence.
If you go by the Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen list of national IQ estimates, you will notice that the average IQ of many African countries hovers around 70, whereas the ~20% European admixed African American population has an average IQ that is usually cited somewhere around 85. I highly doubt that ~20% admixture would have closed half the gap on its own. Eithopia in particular is famous for its malnutrition, similar to what can be seen in this set of photos of malnourished Somali children.
Ultimately, it would be difficult to discern what the true genetic potential of a population is because there are far too many confounding factors. What environmental factors depress intelligence? How much inbreeding (which depresses intelligence) does a culture practice?
Not being Chinese, I don’t know how well the average Chinese man is aware of racial differences, though from what I know, these topics are significantly less taboo in China than in the West. I suspect that some fraction of the Chinese workers that settle Africa in the coming years and decades will find African brides. Some who are racially conscious may refrain from doing so, but given the dearth of available Chinese women (particularly in Africa, but due to sex selection, also in China) I suspect that many men will take what they can get.
As a side note, this reminded me that India’s a bit interesting in that it’s had a historical malnourishment problem (though not as bad as Eithopia) as well as a sex selection issue (which is greater than that of China, particularly in the northern provinces…Punjab and the Sikhs that live there are the epicenter of this issue).
Also on the topic of interracial dating and marriage, see Steve Sailer’s classic “Is Love Colorblind?” and The Audacious Epigone’s pie charts illustrating interracial marriage and cohabitation rates in the United States.
October 23, 2011 at 2:41 pm
Re: Ethiopian inbreeding, see HBD chick’s post on that:
http://hbdchick.wordpress.com/2011/10/22/early-medieval-europe-and-nineteenth-century-ethiopia/
October 23, 2011 at 12:43 pm
In a nut shell, fine features are generally more attractive than broad features. If you’ll notice, that’s the most obvious distinguishing feature between east africans and west africans.
As for intellect, I think people tend to view it the wrong way. Most assume that once a population is intelligent they’ll always be. Not true. Any genetic characteristic that ceases to be selected for will decline.
October 23, 2011 at 2:00 pm
When I was at UCLA in 1981, I met the daughter of Ethiopia’s ambassador to the U.S. under the late Emperor (sadly assassinated by Marxist thugs). Wow.
October 23, 2011 at 2:41 pm
Was she assassinated too? Any photos of her you can share?
October 23, 2011 at 4:24 pm
These are too good for African men, what a waste..!
October 24, 2011 at 4:55 am
they really are quite pretty.
October 24, 2011 at 6:15 am
I can tell you that speaking as a woman, Asian men are pleasant both socially and to look at, but they really are small down there.
October 24, 2011 at 12:14 pm
how noble of you. you are definitely equal.
October 24, 2011 at 7:54 am
Your thesis is faulted from the beginning- “Dark Continent”? your premise is all faulted, you are remissed in your argument, it was indeed Africa that gave civilization to the rest of the world let’s not forget, furthermore, It was Cleopatra of Ethiopian decent that the world found as the model of beauty. therefore, it is my contention that any of ethic group, that chooses to marry into any of the Africa sects that you mention here are fortunate, not the other way around. You talk as if Caucasian are God’s gift to society. This clearly indicates as biasness that is rooted in a supremacy mentality that has been found only to be self serving.
October 24, 2011 at 7:59 am
I will give you people credit for one thing: Y’all invented the word “biasness”. Congratulations!
October 24, 2011 at 8:54 am
I think the point stands.
October 24, 2011 at 9:48 am
If civilization had originated in sub-Saharan Africa, one would expect to find the earliest, most complex civilizations arising there, with imitators outside building less impressive, modified versions of those same civilizations. This is clearly not the case. Most of sub-Saharan Africa is very primitive, and always has been. The ones with somewhat less primitive societies (taking the Ethiopians as an example) typically had extensive contact with outsiders, by whom they were influenced. The significant Caucasian element of Ethiopian ancestry, and their language (a Semtic rather than Bantu language), clearly identifies the direction of influence.
Additionally, Cleopatra VII was a Ptolemaic queen. Given that the Ptolemies were Greek, and practiced a high degree of inbreeding, the likelihood of her having significant sub-Saharan African ancestry is minimal, to say the least. I suppose she could have had an Egyptian ancestor with a little African ancestry (since the Egyptians clearly engaged in some miscegenation with their slaves, much as the Arabs did), but that hardly makes her black.
October 24, 2011 at 11:13 am
It was Cleopatra of Ethiopian decent that the world found as the model of beauty.
Cleopatra was Macedonian, not Ethiopian.
Ethiopians are more closely related to Caucasians than West Africans.
Egyptians descend from middle eastern Caucasians not sub Saharan Africans.
Egyptian civilization was preceded by the Sumerians.
The oldest known civilization is Gobekli Tepe which began in SE Anatolia over 12,000 years ago.
If you trace the geography & dates you can see that civilization spread from from South Eastern Anatolia down through the fertile crescent to Egypt.
The world is still waiting for civilization to make it’s way down to sub Saharan Africa. Maybe in another 12,000 years.
October 25, 2011 at 7:38 am
I was prepared to write off “cas” as an obvious parody of black pseudo-intellectual language, neologisms and all (“your premise is all faulted [sic], you are remissed [double sic] in your argument”). But then the commenter followed up (“I think the point still stands” [even though he was unable to express it in proper standard English]). Hardly an adequate substitute for “eppur si muovo,” but at least we know the commenter wasn’t kidding.
October 25, 2011 at 12:08 pm
… and the question arises, at what point to I cut him off and put an end to his long-winded blathering. He obviously believes that “African” and “Negro” are synonymous. It is up to him to educate himself; I won’t do it for him.
January 24, 2012 at 11:02 am
I am confused because you say “jew” and speak as if you are a goy. Since when is semite anything like white/aryan. White Hitler tried to kill us off for a reason….I don’t know maybe “race” Assimilation obviously has a greater effect on our people then the sages previously mentioned. I have heard one other jew I know say they were white but I believe they also think their dead rebbi was the messiah. lol
Cleopatra’s great grandfather was greek. Are you saying her mother, or grand mother or great grand mother could not of been black. Um, my friend johnny cohen’s mother is Cherokee his father was a reform rabbi. She never converted does that make him a jew? HELL NO. Just like cleopatra was not greek…Education, no assimilation
October 31, 2011 at 11:27 am
>thesis is faulted from the beginning
>your premise is all faulted
>you are remissed
>biasness
Elements of Style, William Strunk
http://www.bartleby.com/141/
Thank me later.
October 24, 2011 at 8:01 am
The women pictures are very pretty. Nice article!
October 24, 2011 at 12:11 pm
Newest HBD term: MAMB
Give it a thumbs up:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=MAMB&defid=6154673
October 24, 2011 at 1:25 pm
This article is interesting enough in itself but what is really stunning is the comments.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/8840458/Black-schoolboys-underachieving-because-academic-success-is-seen-as-gay.html
Heres a sample.
jeffaral.
Today 08:20 AM
Its simple: their low achievement is due to their low IQs!!!!!
Dump the Liberals into Jupiter.
Today 10:33 AM.
The theory here is false. Blacks in urban school districts in America also do very poorly in their grades and on standardized tests, but the association of academic excellence and homosexuality does not exist here.
The quick popularity of that theory suggests that it is simply the latest in a long list of excuses for why blacks don’t do well in activities that require an intensive use of the mind. The actual reason is the one that leftists are avoiding. Blacks underachieve in those activities because they have less intelligence, on the average, than whites do.
Psychometric tests in the USA for more than 60 years have discovered the normal distribution curves that best fit the IQs of US-resident whites and blacks. To give a typical sample:
IQ of US-resident whites.
Average: 103
Standard deviation: 16.4
IQ of US-resident blacks.
Average: 85
Standard deviation: 12.4
October 24, 2011 at 4:34 pm
That really has to be the most bizarre explanation I’ve ever heard for low black achievement. “Academic Achievement is seen as gay”? It seems like the left must be truly desperate to come up with any answer other than the obvious.
October 24, 2011 at 5:13 pm
I’ve reading some of remarks from some of you who claim to have have knowledge of self and who are embarrasses the human race. I’m sure most you having made comments here call yourselves I bet, so call Christians. I find it interesting how we can place a status on such ignorance that’s being convey among the remark found and and Chief Blogger here who chooses to focus on sewer issues. I find it truly disgusting to reading the lack of depth and racial overtone for mans inhumanity for man
narrowly supported with a bias racial view of the world. You all should congratulate yourself for setting a new example of higher intellect. I simply call it sickening.
Sent from my iPhone
October 24, 2011 at 5:39 pm
Your African lineage. While you are using every disclaimed author that supports your position, I thought we should began with proven facts about race rather than assertions.
http://www.africaresource.com/rasta/sesostris-the-great-the-egyptian-hercules/the-african-eve-black-mother-of-all-created-beings/
October 24, 2011 at 6:29 pm
Thanks for the link on ignorance, quite enlightening I see it addresses the over reliance of the word as a defense mechanism. I contend that if one is reared in a desuetude environment, one has to learn how to excel on the job rather than ask dad or mom or the rich uncle for a Hand out or lunch money, while playing soccer for mom, oh how sweet! See here are the facts my friend that sent the link about Blacks and over use of the word ignorant, while I’ve excelled your environment, i doubt quite seriously if you would have had what it took to have survived in mine.,.:)
October 25, 2011 at 4:44 am
cas-
Re; “african eve”. No one doubts that africans & non africans diverged from common ancestors 100K plus years ago. Just as no one doubts hominids & chimpanzees diverged from common ancestors 5 million years ago. The only people who doubt evolution are a handful of fringe Christians whom you just tried to appeal to in another post.
Re; Your comment with all the Egyptian links. As JAY pointed out, most of them don’t work. Of the two or three that do, none of them really have anything to do with topics being discussed. My links at least referenced peer reviewed research or articles that cited peer reviewed research.
Re: Your “excelling” in “our environment”. I think you really miss the point. Your whole reason for being in “our environment” is that we have excelled in our environment by creating an advanced civilization and you have failed in your environment by not. Your family has come to sponge off the accomplishments of others. We don’t need you.
October 25, 2011 at 10:15 am
But the thing is, the uncensored comments left underneath are brazenly race realist in nature. Thats what got me excited. Remember The Telegraph is a highly respectable daily news paper. Can you even immagine the New York Times allowing comments citing Ruston & biological racial differences in their comment section.
October 24, 2011 at 4:40 pm
Another interesting piece from the Telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/jamaica/8607495/Most-Jamaicans-believe-UK-rule-better-according-to-poll.html
October 24, 2011 at 2:56 pm
The following video shows people that are half Horn African and Caucasian and you’ll notice that while many retain the distinct facial features we see in people from the Horn, they lose their darker color and end up just looking White. I found that odd.
I’m interested in seeing how the Chinese/Ethiopian mixes will turn out. They’ll definitely won’t look negroid in appearance. They’d probably turn out looking like Keanu Reeves or Olivia Munn.
October 24, 2011 at 3:13 pm
I hope Ethiopia is ready for the hordes of lonely white nationalist men who will now be flooding there in order to procure Ethiopian wives for themselves – now that they have this piece of information!
October 24, 2011 at 5:22 pm
Re: Cas’ last comment,
Interesting you, who cite no facts, should call us “ignorant”:
http://commissarclass.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/black-peoples-favorite-smart-sounding-word/
October 24, 2011 at 7:38 pm
Cas, I will not let this topic be derailed by Afro-centric rantings. Most of your links don’t work – and are you not aware that we have actual paintings of Greco-Roman Egyptians (I saw them in Cairo) clearly showing that they were NOT negro? It’s pointless for me to debate you on these matters, others (such as Mathilda: http://mathildasanthropologyblog.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/the-faces-of-ancient-egypt/) have already debunked such ideas.
October 25, 2011 at 11:17 am
cas-
I’ve already provided peer reviewed genetic studies from the American Journal of Human Genetics showing that North Africans, including ancient Egyptians and Moors are descendants of middle eastern Caucasians. So North Africa has nothing to do with your black ass.
As for Cleopatra and the Greeks, no one believes George James nonsense other than a few afrocentric nuts. As far as I know the only serious scholar who has even bothered with it has been Mary Lefkowitz, Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at Wellesley College, in her book Not Out of Africa (1996).
All you’ve done is spam this thread with afrocentric fantasies. You should stop wasting our time and yours.
October 25, 2011 at 12:13 pm
Out of your whole long reply, the only part that is relevant is that Italian soldiers did mingle with local Ethiopian women. This is true – but the natural beauty of Ethiopian women stands on its own even without this mixture of Italian blood. As for the rest of your screed, it is completely irrelevant; “African” does not equal “Negro”. “Native Egyptian” does not equal “Negro”. Any further long-winded screeds from you will be deleted unless they are relevant and to the point.
P.S.
I’ve deleted your two irrelevant and unnecessarily long comments. I’ve also, as you probably noticed, deleted your two other comments on another post. If you have something worthwhile to say, then do so. Otherwise, find someplace else to post your diatribes.
October 25, 2011 at 4:08 pm
If everything the Afrocentrists say were true, Africans would be superior to other races, and Africans would be supreme. Yet Afrocentrists only refer to their intellectual enemies as “supremacists”. An unwitting admission that they don’t believe what they’re saying?
I also love the simplistic “so-and-so based their culture on so-and-so” formulation. Sounds like something someone would say on the playground. “You stole the idea of dressing in green FROM ME!!!” Cross-fertilization, anyone?
October 31, 2011 at 11:12 am
If their Eurasian admixture is really 40%, I would suspect their biological average IQ is quite a bit higher than the mean Sub-Saharan IQ. Blacks in America with 20% European admixture have an IQ 1 SD over sub-Saharan blacks. Perhaps Ethiopian IQ is closer to that of Arabs–around 80. However, logically speaking, 40>20, so Ethiopian IQ should theoretically be higher than black American IQ.
I wonder what, then, causes the observed lower-than-expected IQ scores. Maybe malnutrition? Maybe the testing, presumably by Richard Lynn, was inaccurate–maybe it included non-ethnic Ethiopians? Or maybe Eurasian interbreeding occurred before high IQ was selected among Eurasians? It would be interesting to get to the bottom of this.
January 28, 2012 at 3:55 pm
@destructure How did you create an advanced civilization? Wrong is wrong no matter how you package it. I don’t call trickery, robbing, and killing of “less developed” countries to create an “advanced civilization” advanced? Whether you have a high IQ or low IQ it’s still the same….. It’s a cycle that will continue, until humans advance beyond their power, greed, and egos.
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