When Your Average National IQ is Less Than 80, You Need a Market Dominant Minority

Riots against French colonial rule on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe have turned lethal. Sentiment has turned against not only the French, but against all Europeans, including tourists. There is an undercurrent of black nationalism behind the violence -- a resentment against being governed by whites.

Unfortunately for many indigenous tropical and semi-tropical people around the world, the average population IQ is not high enough to run a modern technological society. There is a clear association between population IQ and the GDP of countries and regions. The association is not mere coincidence. The IQ of a population assumes a bell-shaped curve. If the upper end of the curve does not contain enough persons to run the country's infrastructure, that country is doomed to poverty and misery, unless -- unless the country also has a market dominant minority to run things. Like the French in Guadeloupe, the Chinese in Indonesia and Malaysia, and the assortment of outsiders who are barely keeping South Africa above water.

Guadeloupe's average (mean) IQ for its largely black population is estimated to be near 75. Assuming a standard deviation of 15 (at the most), the proportion of black Guadeloupans who are intelligent enough to be teachers (IQ 110} is less than 4%. The number of black residents intelligent enough to be engineers or architects (IQ 120) is less than 1%. The number of black residents intelligent enough to be doctors, lawyers, scientists, etc. is less than 1/10th of 1%.

The same problem occurs across sub-saharan Africa, across the Arabian oil fields and infrastructure, across much of Southeast Asia, and throughout much of Latin America, and the tropical island populations of the world. Without an adequate "smart fraction", a population cannot field the star players to keep it functioning in a well and truly modern manner.

The modern technological world was created by Europeans and East/South Asians. The foundations of the modern world were built in China, South Asia, Babylon, Egypt, and Greece -- and were briefly incubated together in the multi-ethnic learning centers of Persia and Arabia before passing to Italy, Germany, France, Holland, and England for the run to modernity.

The parts of the world that never developed mathematics, never invented the wheel, never developed advanced written languages, should not be expected to excel in the modern technological world -- and they don't. Rioting against rule by market dominant minorities can feel quite righteous -- particularly to the socialist revolutionary "intellectual" who put the "commoners" up to it. (like the self-righteousness of the muslim imam who leads children into short but successful carrers as suicide bombers)

If you have a low-IQ society, you can get rid of the market dominant minority. Then you must prepare for poverty, hunger, unrelenting disease, and misery. But you can keep the self-righteousness. All that you want.