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Or, just postulating here, maybe the capital that is transmitted is just that. Capital. That and tribalism/nepotism could explain these results as well.
by cambellg 18y ago
Or,
just postulating here,
maybe the capital that is transmitted is just that. Capital.
That and tribalism/nepotism could explain these results as well.
- gaius 18y agoSingapore would disprove that theory.
- cambellg 18y agoWhat aspect of Singapore's history gives lie to the theory that a tribe w/ portable resources will recirculate those resources within itself as it expands globally?
- gaius 18y agoSingapore had no resources other than the brains of its people; they were the underclass who were booted out of Malaysia with just the shirts on their backs.
- cambellg 18y agoOk... then they were colonized by a wealthy tribe. Where's the dichotomy?
- gaius 18y agoThey became the wealthy tribe once they were free of the mainstream Malaysian class system.
- DabAsteroid 18y agoThey became the wealthy tribe once they were free of the mainstream Malaysian class system. Malays have little to do with Singapore's economy.
- DabAsteroid 18y agoSingapore had no resources other than the brains of its people; they were the underclass who were booted out of Malaysia Han Chinese are not Malays. From Appendix 1 of "IQ and the Wealth of Nations" by Lynn & Vanhanen (p218): Singapore In 1974, data for a representative sample of 147 ethnic Chinese and 190 ethnic Malay 13-year-olds for the Standard Progressive Matrices were collected (Lynn, 1976). In relation to the British 1979 standardization sample, the Chinese obtained a mean IQ of 106 and the Malays a mean IQ of 90.5. ... The population of Singapore is 76 percent Chinese, 14 percent Malay, and 7 percent Indian