And, likewise… There’s not a single damn case where I can think of some group going “Oh, hell yeah… We’re inferior, utterly and incontrovertibly… We completely agree with those guys over there, who are saying we are…”.

From this, I think we can safely infer a couple of things: One, that those who claim superiority for themselves are generally entirely delusional, and that most humans are too egotistical to admit it when they’ve got problems in the cultural/social/biological matrix they’re embedded in, and that’s in either direction.

Friend of mine is a Sikh; his take on the whole thing vis-a-vis Indian caste is that it may actually be a “real” thing–But, only in India, with the entire cultural “thing” surrounding it in place. Break the people out of their castes, by way of transplanting them somewhere else, and all of a sudden, all those assumptions and expectations go to hell. He’s got a hell of a story about a couple of his friends, who were very low-caste in India, coming to America and suddenly turning into completely different and more successful versions of themselves, only to revert upon returning to India.

Culture is a strange, strange thing, and unexpectedly influential in some areas that we think are not touched on by that aspect of the human condition.

In the US I have run into several doctors who were Patels (Peasant caste, fourth out of fifth in traditional hierarchy), several successful businessmen who were Reddys (again, Peasant caste, fourth of fifth in hierarchy) and so on.

In the UK, much of the Punjabi and Sikh diaspora is from the lower and outcaste part of the pool. And yet, they do fairly well. Not as well as Jews, sure, but still pretty well.

In Singapore, where the bulk of the Tamil Indian diaspora is of lower and outcaste origin, they still do almost as well as the Chinese.

I was formerly quite pessimistic about India’s long term prospects given my belief in HBD, but on further reflection I think we will do just fine.

We may not have all the whizz-bang gadgetry of the Chinese but we’ll have more soft power and wealth-transferring ability. More CEOs, less engineers.

According to the Hindu faith the world only exists because the gods exist. And the gods only exist because the Brahmin make the prayers, rituals, supplications, incantations, etc. No Brahmin, no world.

Factually you are wrong.

The vast majority (i.e. north India) are Aryans who make up the lower-IQ peoples. The south Indian people, Dravidian, are ‘generally’ smarter and include Telugu and Tamil Brahmins.

In addition, much of the low IQ is attributable to low aggregate scores in nutrition and sanitation/healthcare. Whether this is fixable is a different question, but both nature and nurture play a role.

Muh IQ is a stupid idea, not least because we only measure intelligence on a relative scale, so what an IQ score means in a specific situation ranges from sweet FA to (almost) everything, i.e. IQ is less useful as a diagnostic tool than one would hope.

Upon which data do you base this assertion? And, for that matter, to what do you ascribe this “problem”?

You start using a broad brush like that, you’d best remember how often such calumnies were used in the past, and how often they were proven wrong by actual performance and experience. Who was it that described the Japanese as never being able to be decent combat pilots because they were all near-sighted bespectacled dwarves who would never be able to fight the white man…?

Pearl Harbor, Singapore, and the fates of the Prince of Wales and Repulse taught us how accurate that characterization was; I wonder what lessons will teach us the opposite of your assessment of the “Dravidian majority”?