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Posted by SMAZ on Wed Jan 25 18:11:30 2012, in response to Re: New Blog Post: This one is for SMAZ, LuchAAA, and italianstallion..., posted by JayMan on Wed Jan 25 13:40:23 2012. However, it couldn't be primarily responsible for the divide or even a significant part of it because there is little genetic overlap between Northern, Central, and Southern Italians.Exactly. The difference in IQ and economic development is based on historical migration patterns, especially after Unification. The more high achieving and adventurous ones left. The fearful, conservative or just plain dumb ones stayed. Notice how Puglia always stands out a bit compared to the rest of the South. Could it be that they are less culturally conservative than other Southerners and therefore throughout their history put in motion policies backed up by somehwat more progressive cultural mores that mitigated the brain drain by keeping some of their more liberal and entrepreneurial types closer to home? The answer is YES. Of course this was also aided by Puglia's geography. The fairly flat and fertile nature of the terrain and the proximity of one coast to the other aided commerce, trade and the exchange of ideas even in the horse-and-buggy era. This furthers liberalism and economic progress. But, doesn't that then go back to the inbreeding thing? A young, high IQ, college-bound Molisano will not be inbreeding when he goes to university in Torino and stays there after graduation and marries a girl he met there(usually also a college grad) who can be from anywhere. Your map only shows residents of the selected Regions. The Left Behind. It doesn't track down the people originally from those Regions who moved elsewhere. Not only do such people constribute to lowering the average IQ of the region they left behind but they contribute to ELEVATING the IQ of the region they moved to. It's why your data is worthless when grasping (or gasping) for some sort of underlying genetic factor as an explanation for varying IQs based on regional residence. Well, America has its own ethnic divides that break down trust and cooperation, something I'm going to delve into when I take a look at Appalachia and the American South. The Eskimos, the Blacks or the Ozarkers caused the Exxon Valdez disaster? Even though Costa is based in Genoa, this doesn't mean that the man who gave Schettino his job wasn't somebody from the South who was doing his bro a favor... It also doesn't mean that Schettino may put his toilet paper rolls paper front vs paper back when wiping his ass. You are grasping at straws. The directors of The Godfather and of Goodfellas were both Italian Americans. And Jermaine Jones is an American-German. Who cares? They know about as much about Italy as you do about Cameroon. Are you saying that these aren't honest depictions of Southern Italian mobster culture? Those are somewhat honest depictions of AMERICAN mobster culture. The real people involved in the real events depicted in "Goodfellas" were also of Irish, Jewish and Anglo origins plus African-Americans and others. It doesn't get more American than that. They were even less "Italian" than Snooki. Besides, like I said, there's a reason we keep getting movies about Italians and not about the Dutch or the Polish. It's because Italians have spunk and are interesting. It's also why Americans keep making movies about the Ancient Romans as opposed to whatever boring shit was happening in Estonia and Finland at the time. You are gonna underpin your blog content based on whatever Hollywood puts out? If that's the case, I should start a wannabe-scholarly blog about WW2 POW camps based on "Hogan's Heroes". I'd be honored to solicit your input. It fails to mention it because they don't. The Romans do, The Romans do because so many Rome residents (like residents of other world cities) are not from Rome. They are high performance folks from those "lower IQ" regions and elsewhere (like other other countries) that you like to bash so much. The longevity thing is a good point for investigation, though. It is well known that there a correlation between IQ and longevity, but it'll be interesting to see how that plays out on the European continent. There is a correlation because higher IQ people produce more physicians, medical researchers and scientists that allow it to happen. They also produce the top flight administrators that make their medical facilities and health care systems run well. Italy has the second-best ranked health care system in the world and there is a reason for it. Erase those contents on your blog. I just smashed you presuppositions to pieces. |
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