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Soundwave on 02 November 2016
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StarDoor said:
Soundwave said:

I don't think American whites would domiante much of anything anymore. 

Hate to say it but I do think too many Americans are lazy and the test scores show mediocre results for Americans considering the amount of money spent on education in this country the return is really lame. 

Americans are obsessed with too much superficial idiocy like becoming famous/rich, finding out "me" (here's a pro-tip -- you're not a special snowflake), and distracted by consuming 3 lifetimes worth of media. Oh and like 2/3 of the country is overweight. 

No emphasis on work ethic. People can shit on Mexicans all day, but from what I see, the average Mexican immigrant in the US works their ass off. Cleaning puke off hotel bedsheets or picking fruit in the blistering sun for a few bucks an hour can't be easy by my estimation, I don't think the "average" American could work a week like that without wanting to go home and cry to mommy. 

America's never been a real "homogenous" society, even in the past, Italians lived in their part of the city, Irish lived in their part of the city, if you were Catholic you didn't marry a Protestant or even date one, that would be scandolous, and you treated black people like subhumans, etc. etc. We are just going through another wave of immigration which will over time homogenize itself. Europe I think does a considerably worse job at integrating for some reason, I'm not specifically sure why that is. 

Wow, you're pessimistic. American whites do just as well as European whites:

http://isteve.blogspot.com/2013/12/overall-pisa-rankings-include-america.html

The US government spends so much money because they are attempting to equalize achievement across races, an endeavor which is doomed to fail. Sure, Mexican immigrants have a great work ethic (usually,) but IQ is everything in a modern economy.

The Italians and Irish were able to integrate because they were white. No multiracial society has ever successfully homogenized itself. At best, America will end up Anglo-Brazil, with a pale-skin upperclass and dark-skin underclass, just like nearly every other Latin American country. Racism won't even go away, it'll just transform into an even more direct color-ism.

Personally I think IQ is a bit overrated. Work ethic I think is the main barometer for success in life along with financial literarcy/discipline, but that doesn't really have anything to do with IQ, anyone can learn what an index fund is and what compounding interest is (and if you don't know these things, put down your college textbook and learn, because it'll do you a helluva more in life than that college degree will). I know plenty of "smart" people who scored great on I.Q. tests who are earning maybe 1/3 or 1/4 what other people I know are, and it simply boils down to they don't have have any drive. 

It's similar with athletes, I've seen athletes who have a lot of natural talent, but they just have no work ethic. And I've seen people who don't have the natural talent, but they work their ass off, gimme the dude who's working his ass off. That's who I want on my team. 

Human society will homogenize eventually, we are already getting there. English will become a global language, there will be a singular popular culture (already getting there), eventually we will leave this planet. 

I see that all as pretty much inevitable. It seems like a "big concept" but so does having sex with a woman to a 12-year-old just starting puberty. But the wheels are already in motion once your hormones start to shift, lol. 

That's basically how I looked at us as a species, we are like an 11/12 year old ... we are still believe in a lot of stupid shit, but we're not a toddler or little kid anymore that can't be left unsupervised without mom and dad for any period of time. We've hit some important mile stones (we can dress ourselves, certainly we don't wear diapers anymore, we don't cry when mom drops us off at school like we did the first day of Kindegarten). We have some understanding of the world around us, but many things are a mystery. We are mature in some ways, but still painfully childish in others. 

The onset of the computer microchip and space travel is basically going to be  "puberty" for the human race, once that starts it can't be undone. 

So I don't neccessarily look at past models as the basis of anything. Yes societies have tended to live in isolated enclaves ... because none of our distant forefathers had access to any type of rapid transport without a high chance of getting killed on the journey (lol). Nor has there really ever been a universal language or such an even playing field where anyone has access to information and economic access even. Anyone can invest in the stock market, it's not confined to one country. Once you remove these barriers, you basically are in a very different ball game.