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Inquisitive and harmless wyvern. Interested in human nature and patterns of history. Otherwise known as Paul Cossins.
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Joined June 2014
More than fashwave edits we need the administration to be focusing on language and terminology for immigration reform: Pluralistic cooperation readiness Global social responsibility orientation Out-group moral consideration score Impartial fairness orientation Civic
The goal is to keep creating WEIRD proxies until the pundit class feels comfortable mentioning one online, saying it should be a small part of immigration selection
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We know that non-Europeans appear in leftism as exploited victims of the dastardly Europeans. In this version, they are accomplished inventors, scientists, and thinkers whose knowledge the dastardly Europeans stole without acknowledgment. Complete fantasy world.
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There is a huge demand to find non-Europeans who contributed to the great accomplishments of Europe. A main aim of "global history" is to supply this demand. They claim "to restore agency to non-Europeans". But the enterprise is a dismal failure.
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3. The Enlightenment. This book ("A Global Enlightenment") claims Chinese contributed to the Enlightenment. How? Some French 18th cent scholars like Antoine Court were into tarot, esoterica, and ancient wisdom, including yin-yang cosmology and Daoism. Again, a negligible
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2. Scientific revolution. This book ("Horizons: A Global History of Science") tried to find non-Europeans who contributed. It failed. Their role was between zero and negligible.
There is a big effort to find women and non-Europeans who contributed to modern science. This book tries but fails to show non-Europeans made much difference. Africans, it declares, did do science! (Spoiler: they observed the stars, as everyone does.)
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There is a big effort to find non-Europeans who contributed to modern science, the Enlightenment, and the Industrial Revolution. It has failed. 1. Industrial Revolution. The attempt to credit a key invention to Jamaican slaves failed. No evidence.
A story in 5 parts: 1. In 2023 an article "Black Metallurgists and the Making of the Industrial Revolution" (by Jenny Bulstrode) claimed that 18th-century English ironmaster Henry Cort stole his revolutionary ironrolling process from enslaved metalworkers in Jamaica. 2. Anton
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Corruption is a good illustration of groupishness. Take advantage of outsiders (rather that be prosocial towards them) by demanding bribes or embezzling common funds. Cooperate with insiders by sharing some of those spoils.
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The authors find that their I-C index correlates with the Corruption Perceptions Index at about 0.9. So level of corruption is probably the best single indicator of level of groupishness.
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Further update: Jelf has another paper out in 2025 "The origin of Henry Cort’s iron-rolling process: assessing the evidence" "This paper examines the available evidence relating to the disputed origin of Henry Cort’s iron-rolling process. The principal primary sources,
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Freedom, health, and wealth—everything you love in this world is highly correlated with high-trust individualism (r ≈ 0.6–0.9). Ignore the effects of low-trust, clannish immigration at your own risk
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Can Islamism be defeated? Probably not. It is an inherent part of Islam, which praises jihad and spread by force of arms. In Xinjiang, China is defeating Islamism by suppressing Islam. That's too autocratic for us But we could have a cordon sanitaire.
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Without Islamism, the world would be a lot more peaceful. Attacks in the last couple of days on US troops in the Middle East and Jews in Australia. Over half of civil wars involve Islamists. Islamism is the dominant global ideology of armed conflict.
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Here's a report in the Nordic Times, which I think is an independent English-language news site. https://t.co/qU4jNDaG4i
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This study, which came out in early 2025, found that in Sweden, 63% of those convicted of rape between 2000 and 2020 were immigrants (1st or 2nd gen). In the months since publication, have the Swedish media reported this important discovery? I expect there has been silence.
Swedish research study finds strong link between immigrant background and rape, especially among foreign-born people who came to Sweden at age 15 or older. Adjusted for socioeconomic factors, substance abuse problems, mental disorders, criminal behavior. https://t.co/EQ8rKxL8J9
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Japan gives citizenship mainly to Chinese and Koreans. This is the best way: citizenship for peoples whose cultures are both good and closely related. https://t.co/oafQKY0zVH
A total of 8863 foreigners became naturalized Japanese citizens last year. The most were Chinese followed by south or north Korean. Last year was the first time more North Koreans became Japanese citizens than South Korean. An average year has 7~9000 people taking Japanese
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I previously lived & did research in West Africa, working for an NGO that tackled female genital cutting. The British Medical Journal has published a 'puff piece' promoting FGC, Saying it's perfectly fine for the community (not the individual) to control her body.
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British and Japanese citizenship grants 1967-2024. If immigration is so good, by now Britain should be a far better country in every way than Japan.
Japan issued 8,863 citizenship grants in 2024 and wants to make it harder to acquire Japanese citizenship. Britain issued 269,806 citizenship grants in 2024 and has issued more citizenship grants since 2022 than Japan has issued since 1967.
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Higher birth rates and population ageing means that the last 20 years of mass migration has baked in massive demographic change for the future. England and Wales are currently 74% white British, but only 54% of births are to white British parents:
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This study follows the convention of using the words individualism and collectivism. A bad misnomer. It is not about being selfish vs cooperative! It is about being cooperative only with one's kin and allies, while often treating others badly, vs cooperating with all.
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The main predictors of low groupishness were (a) the cool water index (i.e. the climate of NW Europe) and (b) the Western family pattern (i.e. not living with extended kin, no cousin marriage, no polygamy, no arranged marriage). Open access: https://t.co/JmKVDWyIdC
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