Some Inconvenient Truths

Many readers will certainly accuse me of being racist after reading this article of mine. If not because of Joe Biden, I would not have wanted to write it, as the saying goes, you need poison to fight poison. The West’s superiority complex towards China and Chinese are becoming too unbearable for me.

But what I am going to write are simply inconvenient truths, and they are surely politically incorrect to brag about under normal circumstances. Humility should always come first, no matter how endowed one is.  

The following two pictures have been making their rounds in WhatsApp forwards. The backdrop reads: European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad 2023, Slovenia. You can see from the faces of the winners. Regardless of the country they represent, everyone is ethnically Chinese! I have written about this phenomenon before. But I would like to speak my mind a bit more on this.  

There are 13 or 14 academic Olympiads each year and the most prestigious of which, I understand, is the International Mathematic Olympiad (IMO). I am not sure if this Slovenia event is one of them. But some 60 countries did take part and China emerged as No 1, followed by the US and Australia. The top European prize went to Ukraine.

China has won the IMO championships the greatest number of times, and many of the members of winning teams America and Australia were also ethnically Chinese!  

The cold truth is that each race has its own genetic constitution. Chinese are genetically very adept at Science and Mathematics. As a language, Chinese is most facilitating in counting. We generally use Intelligence Quotient (IQ) to measure braininess. But we also know IQ is also greatly influenced by factors like geography, climate, food, and other resource factors. Below is the map

which shows the average IQ scores of countries. 

 

Japan has been ranked No 1. Taiwan and Singapore followed close behind. I have taken the liberty to discuss them based on the following broad clusters:

1. The East Asians

Japan  106.48, Taiwan, 106.47, Singapore 105.89, Hong Kong, 105.37, China 104.1, South Korea 102.35

2. The Caucasians and the Levante People

Finland 101.2, Germany 100.74, Netherlands 100.74, Canada 99.52, Australia 99.24. Switzerland 99.24, United Kingdom 99.12, United States 97.43, Sweden 97, France 96.69, Russia 96.29, Italy 94.23, Spain 93.9, Cyprus 93.39, Israel 92.43, Malta 91.27, Greece 90.77

3. Southeast Asians

            Myanmar 91.18, Vietnam 89.53, Thailand 88.87, Malaysia 87.58, Philippines 81.64, Indonesia 78.49

4. Arabs

            Iraq 89.28. Bahrain 83.6, United Arab Emirates 82.05. Libya 80.92, Jordan 80.7, Saudi Arabia      76.36, Egypt 76.32

5, Central Asians

            Uzbekistan 89.01, Kazakhstan 88.89, Tajikistan 87.71. Turkey 86.8

6. Latin Americans

            Mexico 87.73, Uruguay 87.59, Cuba 83.9, Brazil 83.38, Venezuela 82.99

7. South Asians

            Sri Lanka 86.62, Pakistan 80, Iran 80.01, India 76.24, Bangladesh 74.33, Nepal 42.99

8. Pacific Islands

            Fiji 83.96, Solomon Islands 83.96, Samoa 83.96, Micronesia 83.96, Papua New Guinea 78.49, Timor-Leste 78.49

9. Africans

            Uganda 76.42, Kenya 75.2      55, Angola 75.1, Tanzania 74.95, Zimbabwe 74.01, Burkina Faso 73.8, South Africa 68.87, Zambia 68.43, Ethiopia 68.42, Nigeria 67.76, Ghana 58.16. 

Darwinian evolution is an on-going process. There are two aspects that govern IQ developments – one is genetic, which takes ages to improve; the other is environmental where the limiting force for its potential growth is largely self-inflicted by the people’s very own society. The first one is too politically impolite for me to cite examples, but I can offer many examples in the second situation. A case in point is Singapore. If it had only grown – economically and socially – like the rest of its Southeast Asian neighbours, then its average IQ today will probably register in the region of 90. It is 106! On the other hand, America and many countries in Europe are likely to see their average IQ regressing in the coming years, since there is so much in-migration from regions where average IQs are pretty low. Average IQs amongst East Asians are likely to plateau around the 105 level for many years to come; however, readings amongst the South and West Asians, particularly the Indians, will noticeably climb further north in due course. The figure for Israel is surprisingly low. I thought it should read 120!

Homo Sapiens reaching China 100,000 years ago…

The following information was extracted from a book called A Pocket History of Human Evolution book published by S. Condemi. Contrary to earlier belief that Homo sapiens left Africa some 60,000 years ago, Condemi argues that the latest research seems to show that the migration reached China more than 100,000 years ago. I thought this is the principal answer to the question I was posing in the first place?

We know the Out-of-Africa timeline has been revised many times. We must leave it to the experts to sort the facts out. Given the capability of modern science, this should not be a tall order.