Mr. A --- again

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "No wonder it was posted by "Annonymous..."":

It has been said...

But it wasn't just "said" -- these are demographic facts that anyone can confirm.

And you don't seem to consider that Germans (and Europeans in general) as an ethnic group have higher average IQs than the mestizo Mexicans now entering America en masse (uninvited) -- some would say this is the reason they were eventually able to integrate into the American mainstream, and did not form an ethnic underclass the way Hispanics are doing today. And it is also the reason why Mexico is a poor, unstable, corrupt country -- i.e. it is full of Mexicans. And why Germany is an advanced first world nation. Maybe you can expound on that angle, e.g. explain: When compared to, say, Iceland -- which is a barren, resourceless rock in the middle of the ocean, with a very inhospitable climate -- a nation with a first world living standard, while Haiti is not? Also, why is Mexico, a nation with fairly abundant resources, a nation that its own people flee, while Japan, comparatively resource poor, has the 2nd largest economy?

Do you believe that a component of IQ is heritable? There is a large, rather convincing, and growing body of evidence that suggests that it is. And it is at this point beyond dispute that higher IQs correlate very well with academic and economic success (on average). This is why, around the world, racial and ethnic diversity is a problem for egalitarian societies -- some groups are not well equipped by nature to compete well with other groups. For example: over 40% of the students at UCLA are Asian, even though they (at this point) makeup less than 20% of California's population.

Just going by the evidence, it does not seem at all clear that Hispanics will not continue along their current path in America, and develop into, primarily, an underclass. You seem to have faith that this will not be the case. I wonder: is it wise to subject America to what amounts to a social experiment? Suppose you are wrong, Mr Wattenberg -- what then?

Earlier you said that by the 2nd generation Hispanics speak English. Assume this is so. Can you then explain why so few of them go on to attend and complete college?

How about the latter questions? Should Americans be able to advocate to maintain the demographic heritage of their country as a majority white nation without being called names?

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I can see why you want to remain annoynmous. Your post is pretty damn close to racist.

IQ tests, and similar tests, are notoriously unreliable. They are changed by environment and education. Much of the data is out-dated, coming from an era before the emigration to the U.S. of highly educated Sub-Saharan blacks and Carribeans and other Latin Americans.

BTW: Does a baseball player like Alphonso Soriano --- who may well be the first player in baseball history to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases in the same seaon --- have intelligence?

His skills require split-second timing, intense concentration, a rugged training schedule and a will to win.

Ben
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Posted by Anonymous to Wattenblog at 8/22/2006 03:06:23 AM