*** bit of a mess, wrote this in early morning - will re-organize later, I also learned how to use reddit formatting features

This title is somewhat of a misnomer - it would be more accurate to say, why the West has not got some intrinsic qualities it likes to think it has got.

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A. Introduction

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https://www.reddit.com/r/aznidentity/comments/52xvzq/asias_outsized_intellectual_capital/

We already know that Asians lead when it comes to raw intelligence.

Westerners respond by claiming a more common distribution of some sort of "daring" gene that leads them to be more creative or innovative - this is a view that u/shadowsweep subscribes to explicitly.

Where the West excels is in its daring, which I think is also why there are higher rates of psychopathy.

I also subscribe to this view, but only in the context of the next few decades.

[Alot of people want to pretend we're all the same, but if we really want to move ahead, we shouldn't be ignoring reality, we ought to understand where we stand in it and where we're moving with it.]

I'm going to briefly outline the basis for this gene distribution, and I'm going to show that the edge the West has got now in this gene distribution is set to become worthless and play second fiddle to raw Asian intellect.

I'll be using China as a substitute for Asia since it's easier to express one well-known country with one set of policies and circumstances than many with slightly differing sets of policies and circumstances. Not to use this as an excuse, but I don't have a good grounding in the policies and circumstances of many modern Asian countries to talk about them.

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B. The 'Daring' and 'Psychotic' Gene in Westerners

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Here, I lay out in brief the origins of European thinking and behaviour.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aznidentity/comments/5344bz/part_one_the_mediterranean_attitude_of_the_west/

The Mediterranean attitude, which arose from the inevitable competition between the region's many nation-states, selected for opportunistic and ruthless individuals.

So yes, there is higher in-population occurence of a 'daring' and 'psychotic' gene.

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C. The Myth of the Stand-out Western Genius and/or the Larger Western IQ Standard Deviation

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Westerners will claim that there is another gene(s), separate from a 'daring' and 'psychotic' gene, that 'creates' stand-out geniuses, and that it exists either solely in their gene distribution, or in greater quantities than in others. In truth, there is no substance to this claim - and further, a 'daring' and 'psychotic' gene will create monomaniacs, but not people who are intrinsically more intelligent (we also mustn't forget that many of the greatest Western geniuses like Newton, Da Vinci, and Michelangelo never had children). The matter of fact is that pre-modern accomplishments were not that technically complex, the baseline IQ required to produce them was not that high - what was most needed was competition aided by a sprinkle of monomania. The highest geniuses would've been lamenting over their existence while not-as-smart people with motivation got to work - it is only in the last 50 years that the prerequisite IQ for cutting-edge innovation/invention has been increasing at significantly-faster-than-historical rates, and #MOST IMPORTANTLY#, it was only in the early 20th century that the first IQ tests came out, and only in the last 50, 60 years that they've been a prominent and widespread feature of educational and (unofficial) breeding policies. They would've had no concrete way of selecting for this stand-out genius gene, even if it exists (we might even explain this misconception by the continued presence of Ashkenazi Jews in the backgrounds of Western history - scroll down to the very last paragraph of this whole OP for details on this).

A variation of this claim is the myth of a larger Western IQ standard deviation. We may attribute this again to the manifestation of a 'daring' and 'psychotic' gene during simpler times - or to the existence of Ashkenazi Jews (I re-iterate, scroll down to the very last paragraph of this whole OP for details on this).

This is the most important thing to realize - that the West has not got smarter smart people.

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D. The Three-fold Factors Accounting for Future Asian Dominance in Innovation and Invention

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Now I'm going to show why the West's edge in the distribution of a 'daring' and 'psychotic' gene is losing relevance in the field of invention and innovation - and thereby account for future Asian dominance in the field. To begin with, there exists a half-standard deviation gap between European and Chinese IQ, a gap that is increasing by the day - I will explain the basis for this increase.

The points are divided into three parts:

1. The development of Chinese and Western IQ in the future (MAIN)
2. The distribution of the 'daring' and 'psychotic' gene in the new intellectual landscape
3. The distribution of the 'collective' and 'team-work' gene in the new intellectual landscape

The Development of Chinese and Western IQ in the Future

First, the importance of IQ these days (and in this discourse) has got to do with the fact that the world has got alot fucking more complicated. Newton was smart for inventing calculus yes, but to understand it conceptually is something your average high schooler can do today, something your average high schooler has been doing for a hundred, two hundred years now. On the other hand, the cutting-edge mathematical theories, concepts, and algorithms that people deal with today are fundamentally impossible for someone with a IQ below a certain point to conceptualize, let alone understand or even innovate upon. Mathematicians admit that mathematical concepts are an IQ business - it's about being able to perceive n-layers of concepts and detect patterns or extract meanings from within with those layers; this is a task that IQ measures extremely well. This is a barrier that must be intrinsically overcome, or nothing further can be done. As a loose analogy, the effects of this limitation, in terms of being able to juggle layered concepts simultaneously, can be regarded as IQ points corresponding to the radius of a sphere, where a few points will not add much to the radius, but will add hugely to the volume.

Second, u/shadowsweep has some statistics in this post regarding China's gender egalitarianism outside of university - this will be used later: https://www.reddit.com/r/aznidentity/comments/5328iw/downplaying_asian_womens_achievements/d7ptllx

Second and a Half, I have made a post detailing the basis for Chinese gender egalitarianism on the whole, and why it will continue well into the future: https://www.reddit.com/r/aznidentity/comments/5328iw/downplaying_asian_womens_achievements/d7pxugv

Third, in 2008, China graduated somewhere about 6, 7, 8 million people from its universities (likely MUCH more now) - holding predominantly S.T.E.M degrees, a field that selects for high IQ. The eugenic implications of this being that you have brought together under one roof equal millions of men and women, whose base IQs meet a high baseline, at the age where they begin to form friendships, relationships, child-producing marriages.

Fourth, university students in the West, especially women, attain humanities degrees in significantly greater proportions - a field that allows for lower IQ compared to S.T.E.M (google the correlation between IQ and field of study), thereby flooding their university environment with bright, but not-as-bright people mixing with and dulling the brightness of its S.T.E.M students. The eugenic implications of this being that, despite the fact you have brought together under one roof equal millions of men and women, their base IQs do not meet as high a baseline. Will the smart-EST people still find each other, just like in the Chinese system? Likely, but the smart people aren't being clearly distinguished, aren't breeding and creating a new generation of slightly smarter kids who will go on to provide a base-line, a breeding grounds for even smarter children to spring out of.

Fifth, an extension of the Second - because you have high-power women and high-power men sharing near-equal positions in the Chinese workplace at all levels, the eugenic implications of the Chinese university environment carry over. So in effect, China maintains an environment from child-hood to early middle-age (the cutting-point for fertility) and older for men and women of similarly high abilities to congregate.

Sixth, an extension of the Second - because the Chinese workplace gender egalitarianism does not hold in the West, especially in the higher-level positions, AND ESPECIALLY IN S.T.E.M WORKPLACES, the eugenic implications of the Western university environment carry over. So in effect, the West maintains an environment from child-hood to old-age for men and women of similarly high, but not as high, and not as consistently high, abilities to congregate.

Seventh, while both Chinese and Western universities (and workplaces) support affirmative action policies - the West being a stronger supporter in this regard (holistic Ivy league application process l 0 l) - the minorities that the West supports in its policies make up a greater portion of its population and have much lower IQs relative to the native European populations (which already has a lower IQ relative to the Chinese - not to mention, the Chinese minorities, the Hui, Hakka, etc. are similar to the majority Han Chinese IQ-wise). This creates a further padding of bright, but not-as-bright people in the Western university environment at the expense of brighter peoples - and this policy is not likely to go away with minorities in the West wielding significant voting power in liberal democracies through immigration and higher birth rates.

Eighth, to visualize the eugenic implications, take two bell-curves C and W, China and the West. For bell-curve C, pull to the right, then pull on the right-end to create a eugenic distension. For bell-curve W, pull to the left, then pull on the left-end to create a not-as-eugenic (but not exactly dysgenic) distension - this represents the IQ distribution of child-producing couples formed in the intellectually-rigorous environments of China and the West. Simply put, smart children are becoming smarter at a faster rate in China than in the West - and we haven't even delved into the TRUE Chinese IQ that's currently under-represented by malnutrition in China's western, inner provinces and present incompleteness of nation-wide infrastructural development (which is amazing because it shows that the Chinese economy hasn't even really got going yet).

The Distribution of the 'Daring' and 'Psychotic' Gene in the New Global Intellectual Landscape

Ninth, Mediterranean competitiveness has seeped out into the world. With the internet and other instant-communication technologies, all nations around the world are seeking to outdo each other in all areas of innovation and technology, so any progress or contentious circumstance (national security, etc.) that is publicized, becomes known world-wide in the minute, spurring on development of related or derivative innovations and inventions. So now all countries are selecting, on top of intelligence, for that 'daring' and 'psychotic' gene which comes with monomaniac individuals - so whatever lead the West has in this genetic distribution will become comparatively smaller by the day.

Further, the importance of this particular gene is arguably superseded today and in the future by the 'collective' and 'teamwork' gene that is more prominent in the Chinese gene distribution - and at a strategic window of time for global innovation and invention.

Ninth and Half, the West is beginning to backlash against its existing immigration policies, Trump and Brexit at the lead - so in time they will come to lose their greatest source of brainpower, Asian immigrants (a short, emotional post regarding the topic): https://www.reddit.com/r/aznidentity/comments/539gii/do_we_belong_in_a_civic_society/d7r211q

The Distribution of the 'Collective' and 'Team-work' Gene in the New Global Intellectual Landscape

Tenth, knowledge and expertise is becoming increasingly specialized, it now takes a massive team to bust out cutting-edge innovations and inventions, a massive team where each member, a super-genius carrying hundreds of books worth of knowledge and concepts in his head - must be able to communicate and work with with other members effectively in order for the team to properly function at near-peak efficiency. If you will look at some ratings of soft racial qualities (there is a picture that floats around the internet), such as marriage-stability, family-cohesiveness, team-work ability, etc. You will see that the Chinese are on the top of these metrics that lend towards team cohesion. We have got a stereotype for our collective natures, well, it has got a basis in reality that need not be explained (our history has likely selected us for a 'collective' and 'teamwork' gene) and now it is our greatest strength in this new intellectual landscape. We have the edge in this gene distribution for now - just as the West has the edge in the distribution of the 'daring' and 'psychotic' gene, but our advantage at this time is far greater, since the defining aspect of the new intellectual landscape is collaboration between specializations.

Summation of Points

To conclude part D, it's worth noting that these sorts of developments will occur much faster in the modern world than in the pre-modern world because we are beginning to starkly transition from innovations/inventions requiring a not-so-high baseline IQ into innovations/inventions requiring a distinctly higher-than-before baseline IQ. At the same time, the Western distribution of 'daring' and 'psychotic' genes is being made irrelevant, and it's IQ growth diluted by the policies and circumstances I've outlined above, to say nothing of the Chinese comparative advantage in IQ (and a culture that has prized and selected for intelligence and team-work) which will remain fixed now that the modern world is so geared towards intellectually-rigorous activities requiring collaboration between specializations, and of the current pressures to develop within the Chinese gene distribution a greater number of 'daring' and 'psychotic' gene-holders.

Besides, the Chinese alone outnumber all the Whites + Jews in the world.

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E. Potent Cultural Factors

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The culture constituting a person's racial and national identity matters. Whether you're a laborer or a politician or an inventor or an innovator, etc.

I show the consequences of a malformed gender-racial/national identity between Asian Females and White Females throughout history: https://www.reddit.com/r/aznidentity/comments/5328iw/downplaying_asian_womens_achievements/d7pxugv

I'm only going to cover a few, there's frankly too much - which goes to show the brightness of China's future.

China's Current Psychology

China has no establishment as deeply rooted as those of the West. The government, domestic companies, networks, infrastructure, etc. are only 50 years old. This means that meritocracy reigns, that nepotism has yet to rise, and that everything will be new for a while yet, and remain new in the years to come provided that the reigning Party doesn't introduce too many bureaucratic red-tapes.

China has weak intellectual property rights during a period where global innovation and invention is exploding. This means Chinese companies are hustling and building on top of global innovations and inventions at a rate inconceivable to Western companies, and selling things for a stupidly cheap price. Shenzhen alone gives you a good idea of the difference in the production arena, you can get hardwares/electronics prototyped and manufactured in 1/10th the time and for 1/10th cost, or less, compared to Silicon Valley.

China's psychology of the future is stupidly bright. It is true that it suffered a Century of Humiliation, but for it to rise so meteorically in spite of this and in spite of the lack of foreign aid (which was instrumental to raising the foundations of post-war Korea and Japan and saddles them with a white-saviour narrative) has only bolstered national pride - to say nothing of the IQ tests released in last 50/60 years showing intrinsic Chinese intellectual superiority over the West. Further, the numbers have it, even at a glance and no deep inspection, that China's rise to #1 is inevitable. China's psychology becomes geared towards the question of not just, "when during the next few decades will I be indisputably #1?" but also, "just how far will I outstrip the next competitor or batch of competitors?". Still further yet, to add out of place to the first point of this paragraph, China's rise is ultimately founded upon its own work, not the international theft of resources and talent that engendered the rise of the West, and so it gets from this a clean conscience and a high moral ground and a sense of independence and self-sufficiency. This will ease it's transition to status of hegemony, and later, hyper-power for itself and everyone around it.

The West's Current Psychology

The West has a deeply entrenched establishment. The government, domestic companies, networks, etc. are hundreds of years old. This means that nepotism reigns, that meritocracy is suppressed, and that everything is old and decrepit and will remain that way owing to the bureaucratic red-tapes typical of democracies.

The West has strong intellectual property rights during a period where global innovation and invention is exploding. This means Western companies focus not on how to hustle and build on top of global innovations or inventions, but focus instead on how to extract money from their already-outdated patents and copyrights while they can.

Consider the suicide rates of middle-aged white males, the slogan of theRedPill, a congregation of malcontent millennial white males - "enjoy the decline", and the obsessive focus the West gives towards China's rise and Asian penises, etc. Consider the wreck that Britain has become in the years after the collapse of its colonial empire.

Western psychology of the future is dim. It is true that it enjoyed an uncontested hegemony beginning after the end of the Second Opium Wars (100 years?), but for it to rise ONLY that high after siphoning off the gold and talent of the world (India's share of world GDP was 25% at the beginning of the Raj, 4% at the end, can you imagine what must've happened in Africa and the Middle East?) and then to be so quickly surpassed by the nations of Asia without them even firing a shot on foreign soil, without them importing one whit of foreign talent during their most innovative and inventive years - and then finding in the results of IQ tests conducted 50/60 years ago (and re-done with zealous denial every year since then) that the peoples of Asia were intrinsically the intellectual superiors of the peoples of the West? Their psychology becomes a waiting psychology, there is no question that China and the rest of Asia with it will be #1, that their accomplishments will dwarf anything that has gone before - it only becomes a matter of how irrelevant the West will become, how far it will fall.

ADDENDUM - u/kangol371 talked about Ashkenazi Jews, the matter of fact is that the West owes pretty much everything to Jews. Observant Jews, non-observant Jews, and even crypto-Jews. Whites are pretty much worker-bees for the Jews that'll claim Jews are White when it's to their advantage, and genocide them otherwise. For example, the lead of the Manhattan project was Oppenheimer, an Ashkenazi Jew, and many of its members Ashkenazi Jews that escaped from Germany, France, etc. during WWII. The creation of the first truly influential world-bank from which all other Western world-banks are derivative of, the linchpin of Western finances and economy, was started up by Rothschild, an Ashkenazi Jew. Hollywood, the vanguard of Western soft power, is Jewish almost to the exclusion of all other elements (there's a website out there sponsored by a Jewish organization that'll tell you how Jewish a movie is). The greater part of early modern Nobel prizes, especially STEM Nobel prizes, were awarded to Jews. And all of this and more is only for Jews who've publicly verified their Jewish ancestry. Most of them had to hide it because the West lynched them repeatedly throughout European history. This is the unhealable split in the psyche of the West that has resulted in some of its worst atrocities, that even at it's 'best', it's 'greatest' accomplishments were not really its own - they were the brainchildren of the Ashkenazi Jews.