Amnesty
The Dumbing Down of America
There are many good arguments against giving amnesty to the illegal residents in the United States. We’ve heard many of them, including their propensity for criminal behavior, their abuse of social services, and their underperformance in education. At the root of these traits is their lower intelligence. There. . . I’ve said it. It makes you uncomfortable, right? Americans want to believe we are all equal and therefore don’t like to discuss intelligence. This is a very serious issue because the illegals are a low-IQ population that reproduces faster than the native population, a scenario that presents a very grim future for our country.
We do need to talk about this! It is no accident that parliamentary democracy, industrialization, and capitalism thrive in those nations whose populations have North Atlantic origins. Those nations have a mean IQ of about 100 while those of Latin America are much lower and those of Africa lower still. The people of those regions are known for their inability to effectively self-organize, resulting in endemic corruption, poverty, and frequent violence.
The average IQ of Mexicans is 86 and that of Guatemalans is 79. Average. Think about that a moment. Half of those populations have an IQ that would mark them as dullards in our society. Not merely below our average, but far below it. Do we need to import people like this? Mexico has a sizeable elite and educated class but they surely are doing very well at home and have neither need nor desire to leave their country. Instead, we are getting their underclass.
The Bell Curve’s distribution of IQ scores uses 15-point sections as standard deviations. For nations with origins in the North Atlantic the distribution ( I’m simplifying a bit because I don’t want this to be too technical) goes about like this:
So our society functions quite well with 84% of us having IQ scores of 85 and above. Now let’s compare this to Mexico:
While only 16% of Americans score 85 and below, half of all Mexicans are at that level. That’s an awful lot of underachievers. And because of our open border they are probably the ones we are getting. Is it any wonder that the Hispanic population in the US has such high rates of gang and crime activity and such remarkably low rates of educational achievement?
Other nations have IQ scores similar to Mexico’s, the Philippines for example. But not just any Filipino can walk into our country. The screening process they have to go through to get passports, visas, and airfare probably filters out their underclass and so we tend to get above-average Filipinos.
But the migrants coming from our porous southern border are a problem. And the Central Americans have even lower IQ scores than do the Mexicans. Is this not a scary scenario? What are our congressmen thinking? There should be no amnesty; it just encourages more to come. Those people should not even have been allowed into our country in the first place.
We need a sane immigration policy. Even though we are conditioned to feel uncomfortable speaking bluntly about intelligence, it must be done. A nation has not only a right, but an obligation, to maintain its cultural origins as well as its IQ.
References:
Steve Sailer’s articles about IQ
Steve Sailer’s articles about Mexico
Related articles by J. Philippe Rushton
Hispanics: A Statistical Portrait
Roads
Living in the Philippines has some advantages but the conveniences in traveling are clearly not one of them. The road and bridge infrastructure in this country is just horrible.
I recently had to travel from my home in Mabalacat, Pampanga to San Jose del Monte, Bulacan. If you look at a map you’ll see that it’s just not that far away. Bulacan is the province just north of Metro Manila and Pampanga is to the north of Bulacan. I’d estimate that I traveled only about 80 km but it took one van ride and five jeepney rides . . . and three hours! . . . to get to my destination. And of course I had to do it again on the return. If a portion of the trip had not been on the new North Luzon Expressway then it would have taken even longer. In any modern nation an 80 km trip could be done in about an hour with well-designed roads and traffic patterns.
Leg 1. Riding from my house to the Dau bus terminal took 10-15 minutes and the cost is the 7 peso minimum jeepney fare, about 4 km. This is along the old two-lane National Highway, also called MacArthur Highway, that extends from Manila to the north of Luzon. This route, and others like it, were no doubt set up in the Spanish and American colonial days, and long before automobiles were even invented. They clearly do not support today’s traffic.
Leg 2. I rode a jeepney from the Dau terminal to the SM shopping center in San Fernando, capital of Pampanga province. That ride is only 19 km, costs 24 pesos and takes just 15 minutes on the expressway. However, the jeepney won’t leave until every seat is filled.
Leg 3. From the SM shopping center I took an air-conditioned van to Bocaue, Bulacan. That was 65 pesos and about 38 km, also on the expressway. Here too we had to wait until the van was full before the driver would leave.
Leg 4. Arriving in Bocaue we took a jeepney to Santa Maria, paying the minimum fare of 7 pesos for about 4 km.
Leg 5. From the plaza in Santa Maria we rode another jeepney to Muzon, paying 13 pesos for about 10 km.
Leg 6. From the intersection in Muzon we walked about 100 meters to another jeepney terminal and boarded another jeepney for our last destination, Gaya-Gaya road in the city of San Jose del Monte. This was again the minimum fare of 7 pesos, about 4 km.
Three hours to travel a mere 80 km? The most time-consuming part of the trip was the last three jeepney rides in Bulacan province, from Bocaue to Santa Maria to Muzon to Gaya-Gaya. There aren’t apparently any roads worthy of the name in that province. That entire route is just served by narrow two-lane roads, with each lane barely as wide as the average vehicle so if two large vehicles meet then one must cede a bit. The roads turn and weave so much that they appear to have been originally water buffalo cart trails from the the Spanish period.
Traffic moves very slowly because of congestion at every intersection; overpasses are almost non-existent. There are many more jeepneys plying every route than should be on the road but the jeepney drivers’ organizations are powerful and their license fees add to the local governments’ treasury so there is little political will to make changes. And now with elections coming there is a lot of road repair going on as well, making traffic even worse. Politicians tend to hoard the funds until they can be used in a visible manner and at an appropriate time.
The attitude in the Philippines appears to be “Ah. . . That’s good enough!. . . Why make changes?”
