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Posted by SMAZ on Wed Jan 25 01:23:36 2012, in response to New Blog Post: This one is for SMAZ, LuchAAA, and italianstallion..., posted by JayMan on Tue Jan 24 17:00:22 2012. Once again, you continue to ignore brain drain.All your map really demonstrates is the superiority of liberal and progressive political policies that define the North and Central parts of that country versus the retrograde conservative ones prevalent in most of the South. This liberal vs conservative abyss in IQ and regional economic development can be found in just about any advanced country in the world. Smart, open-minded, knowledge-seeking and entrepreneurial people (all defining characteristics of the Liberal) also happen to be the ones who will most likely leave their ignorant conservative areas of origin thus further exacerbating the brain drain and average IQ by leaving behind the chumps and the unproductive. It is THIS the underlying cause that you should be focusing on rather than discredited genetic factors. In Italy's case, that underlying cause is caused by its pre-Unification history and the devastating socio-economic events that rocked the South in the decades immediately following Unification. Your "frequency of last names" map is particularly laughable. It is obvious that Northern universities will have a higher frequency of diverse last names. Why? Because as i just said, a great number of Southerners move there while only a minuscule percentage of northerners do the opposite thus concentrating regional surnames in the southern academic institutions. In the absence of such analysis, your fancy maps are worth less than a truckload of dead rats in a tampon factory. (look up that last quote) As far as "Italian incompetence" in the Costa incident, I think that a citizen of the nation that produced the Exxon Valdez disaster and the botched response to the aftermath of the levee failures in New Orleans after Katrina shouldn't be casting any stones in his own glass house. Schettino getting his job because of nepotism in Napoli? That would almost be credible if not for the fact that Costa is based in Genova. Do your homework man. I'm sure your teacher reminded you of that. and of course your Godfather, Sopranos and Goodfellas citation. There is nothing better suited to understand Italian culture than watching movies and TV series produced and directed by Americans. I'm disappointed that you didn't mention "Jersey Shore" or Tony Danza characters while you were at it. It's like Mario Balotelli producing a documentary about the American Civil War and the African-American Experience. The topper is that your article completely fails to mention that people in Italy have the highest IQ on Earth outside of a handful of East Asian countries and live long and healthy lives. Sounds like pretty good genetic stock to me. Higher than those Norwegians and Danes you love so much. |
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