Economis benefits of Imperialism and colonization

Innervoice is an idiot with a one way agenda.

d08... You often sound like an intelligent person.
Do you belong to a colonizer's family and need to find excuses for what your relative did a couple a generations ago?

Thinking that colonization was any good for anyone but the colonizers, is beyond idiocy.

Shall we accept Russia move in Ukraine because it's just what humans do?
 
d08 said:
Average IQ in India is 81. The Indians you see in the west are the cream of the crop, obviously there are very bright people in a population of 1.4 billion but they're outliers.



Merciless exploitation is human history. The strong took what they could, however they could. Those rules actually still dominate in poorer 3rd world countries as I've experienced myself - you bribe, cheat and lie throughout life, there are no hangups about morality or principles. There's no hint of European style rule of law with rigid implementation.
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you just went full eugenics, you never go full eugenics.

d08 said:
I cannot find anything to confirm that the Nazis claimed Jewish IQs were low. It's also pathetic to immediately jump to Godwin's Law.
IQ tests at present are the best measure of intelligence. If you invent something better and do appropriate research, I'll use that. Until then, IQ is what we have.



You didn't seem to read what I wrote or are arguing using strawman arguments.
Venezuelan collapse started in the mid 1970s with a democratically elected president who started nationalisation. The previous leaders, although dictatorial, ensured that the country was doing at least economically well.
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lolwut, those high IQ democratically elected Norwegians and Mexicans must've figured something out if nationalizing their oil industry did not lead to their country's collapse.
 
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Venezuelan collapse started in the mid 1970s with a democratically elected president who started nationalisation. The previous leaders, although dictatorial, ensured that the country was doing at least economically well....
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for them.

And BTW what was the average IQ of Europeans 200, 300 or so years ago. No doubt just like elsewhere around the world including current day in some parts, top, middle and bottom percentiles. Absolutely nothing to do with political or educational systems, but whether or not one applies themselves and of course an economic system that allows them to put their intelligence to use.
 
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SunTrader said:
for them.

And BTW what was the average IQ of Europeans 200, 300 or so years ago. No doubt just like elsewhere around the world including current day in some parts, top, middle and bottom percentiles. Absolutely nothing to do with political or educational systems, but whether or not one applies themselves and of course an economic system that allows them to put their intelligence to use.
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IQ scores drift upwards everywhere. But the hierarchy remains. Industrial era seemed to bump numbers higher quite a lot but nowadays, with only a few exceptions, everyone is in the industrial era.
 
Cuddles said:
lolwut, those high IQ democratically elected Norwegians and Mexicans must've figured something out if nationalizing their oil industry did not lead to their country's collapse.
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Mexican oil fields are actually quite badly managed. Norwegian population has high IQ, read what I wrote again.
 
d08 said:
IQ scores drift upwards everywhere. But the hierarchy remains. Industrial era seemed to bump numbers higher quite a lot but nowadays, with only a few exceptions, everyone is in the industrial era.
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A lot more goes into it than just whether or not or how quickly a country industrializes.
 
One just has to look at who were the most successful countries/ people the past 400 years and who was not. More than likely those who were not successful still arent today. The fact remains, some people rely heavily on European innovation as well as American inmovation. Quite frankly, certain countries and cultures just cannot survive without Europeans or America influence. One needs to look no further than Haiti or Africa.
 
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