“Just move to Iceland if you don’t like diversity, bigot!”

I don't think that what you are saying is entirely true. Take any random group of children and one portion will lag behind the others and another portion will be ahead of the others. It is well known in educational literature.


It is also known that intelligence has a genetic component. It is the hardware part. It is a bit like comparing one computer with a slower processor and less memory with one with a faster processor with more memory. Even with the same program, the same instructions, the faster one with more will always outperform the slow one with less.

 

And we haven't even started on the electricity bills in keeping warm all year round? There'd be none of this in sub-zero temperatures . . .

 

Electricity bills? Oh, I'm sure that the lefties have already thought about that. Hell, isn't there already some logs across America type of deal where lefties have formed a gigantic line of helping hands to transport firewood from kentucky to the yukon?

Surely they wouldn't be that heartless to send some family who has never seen snow in their entire lives to a place where you get snowed in half the year!!!!

 

Belch's point covers genetics. Natural selection.

 

A lot of people have a proper early education and access to books but very, very few become Einstein.

 

Racially speaking...
The smallest guys genetically have the highest IQ's genetically.
I'm thinking it's natures way of compensating.

There is more than one way to skin a rabbit after all.
Natural selection may choose different paths.

 

If I may intrude, here is the ranking of IQ by country.

Iceland comes in at #6

https://new-iq-test.com/iq-by-country/

 

I guess America the exception huh?
Whites leaving a predominantly white country to come to a predominantly Brown country.

 

I assume he moved there to serve Iceland's small Jewish population, but his political advocacy is certainly worth questioning.

Just going out on a limb here, but I doubt that a tiny, culturally homogeneous, stable country would benefit from accepting more Middle Eastern refugees.

 

I suspect you’re right. I’m just having trouble seeing why he would use his religious platform to push for this kind of thing. Are the people he is serving also hoping to bring more non-Icelandic people to Iceland?

 

Yet quite culturally homogeneous, which would change if relatively large numbers of people from Africa and the Middle East began migrating to Iceland. The question becomes: How would such migration benefit the people of Iceland? Why would they want to do such a thing? And of course if we're being totally honest, the answer is that it doesn't benefit them and they wouldn't want to do it. But that is where the guilt and shaming come into it.

Oh, you don't want to let a bunch of culturally alien total strangers into your peaceful, stable society? You must be a bigot!

 

Because Europe is the canary in the coal mine.

The US isn't really a country, it's a political system. America is the country and it's not as "diverse" as people would like to believe. Most communities throughout the country are fairly homogeneous in terms of their cultural and political composition. Generally speaking, rural and suburban areas are populated mostly by conservative Christians while urban areas are populated mostly by progressive humanists. The biggest reason why these two groups have been able to coexist relatively peacefully is because the US political system was originally designed as a fairly decentralized federation of States. And because America is huge. In other words, politically and geographically diverse groups in America are able to maintain an acceptable level of separation between one another. But take that separation away and everything changes.

Well, if such diversity comes at the expense of your people, then it stands to reason that your love for your own people is not as strong as it could be.

 

It is mostly about climate, you're right. But that doesn't explain Inuit.

 

America is the continent, not a country. The United States OF America is your country.

 

America is the colloquial term for the USA that everybody uses. The reason for that is simple. It's the only country in the Americas with America in the name.

 

In the US maybe or from uneducated bloke. We say the United States or just States here, never America unless we're making fun about you and refering to the Team America movie.

 

They should import him some ME breeding stock, from one of the more ardently Muslim regions. He can house them in his street. When the first such kid decides it's time to martyr himself and get some of that heavenly virgin action, the Good Rabbi and his family will be top of the list.

These people are literally too stupid to be using up valuable oxygen.

 

We say 'Merrka', at our house. And sometimes 'The Yoo Ess of Ah'.

 

I just use "the states". However if somebody says, "You're an American!" I'm not going to be that grammar guy.

 

Reasonable, but probably mainly inside same. "The States" has less meaning elsewhere.

 

No, the USA is a political system. It was established in 1776. America, the country, predates the USA by centuries. For example, my ancestors migrated to Virginia in 1699. They were Americans before there was a USA. Please don't presume to lecture me about my own country. Thanks.

 

And what do you call the people from the States, old chap?

 

Check out the subsection titled "causes of national differences"... seemed to be the most relevant heading.

 

I guess I don't agree with the premise. Diversity doesn't always come at the expense of your people. I mean, in America's case (and not in the case of the US, interestingly enough, since you are committed to this distinction), diversity obliterated the people quite literally. In the case of the US, I guess the fear is that history will repeat itself and diversity will harm the descendants of Christian white settlers just as those Christian white settlers harmed the native Americans.

But I believe diversity can do either. It can enhance, it can harm, and it can (and usually is) a mixed bag of both. But not a net negative.

 

By their names, if they introduce themselves to me. If not I don't really care enough to talk to them, I've got enough friends already.