There's another kind of heredity which it's very important to discuss, with regards to opposing certain problematic ideologies. (Both far left and far right.)

There's another kind of heredity which it's very important to discuss, with regards to opposing certain problematic ideologies. (Both far left and far right.) For human beings, culture, as a powerful multiplier of intelligence, is far more important than genes. Immigrant groups to the US, like Italians and Poles, increased their average IQ scores by about a whole standard deviation in about 2 generations in the early 20th century. Even hot-button topics, like the IQ scores of Black people in the US have data which suggest that it is culture which is both a source of great inertia/difficulty and a source of great hope. On the side of hope, one study found that the Black children of US service-people in Germany were the same as other children growing up in Germany. Likewise, evidence for cultural factors in the success of people in various fields is very strong. For example, Jewish immigrant communities have often dominated local tailoring industries in cities across thousands of years of history and several continents. However, it would be laughable to suggest the existence of a tailoring gene. Information of the kind above has been suppressed by the Far Left in the West. It has also been taken up in a dishonestly distorted form by the worst fringes of the Alt-Right. However, the complete story demolishes both Far Left and Alt-Right ideological messages. In the power of culture, there is hope for the future. If the potato famine Irish could lift themselves to their current place in 21st century society, out of utter unemployable status, poverty lower than that of the contemporaneous American slave, and the sewage-smelling crime and terrorism-ridden slums of New York and London, there is nothing that cultural transmission can't do. http://a.co/6K2o7XS http://a.co/6K2o7XS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHr9GRgRw_M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHr9GRgRw_M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w0X71d9Z08 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w0X71d9Z08 (Also herein is a cautionary tale. History shows many, many examples of migrant groups who find themselves lagging behind. They are often kept in cultural isolation away from the mainstream of their local society, often, by their own elite, which uses this to maintain their status as group leaders. Culture is powerful, but its power can be harnessed to do great harm as well.)