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Posted by JayMan on Sun May 15 21:51:54 2011, in response to Re: Why Socialism Doesn't Work In America (not that it can't), posted by SMAZ on Sat May 14 04:43:48 2011. The reason the work ethic may be more stoic in those Nordic countries is because of the weather.Work ethic is related to climate the same way IQ is related to climate: both generally increase as you go poleward, and both appear to do so for partly genetic reasons. Life in colder climates was more laborious as well as more cognitively demanding than in warmer climes. As such, winter dwellers evolved a greater propensity to work than their more tropical counterparts (since, it is always in an organism's best interest to work as little as it had to to get by). Italians have higher IQs than the Germans and English. Your own posts have pointed it out. The score that Richard Lynn initially obtained for Italy that he reported in IQ and the Wealth of Nations no doubt comes from northern Italy. His subsequent research has shown that within the country, there appears to be a decline of at least 5 IQ points as you from north to south. Southern Italians seem to have greater North African admixture, as do all Southern Europeans (~10% for the Portuguese, for example). The hotter the place, the more relaxed the pace of life is. It has to be. Yes, it also easier to work harder when it's cooler (which may have also contributed to differences in brain size as you go from equator to pole). You even see this WITHIN Italy when you compare the North and South and within the US when you compare the Northeast and Midwest with the South. The northern U.S. was settled primarily by the English, and then the Germans and Scandinavians (i.e., Germanic peoples), except the Northeast which has a significant Italian, Irish, and French presence.  The Southern U.S. was settled primarily by the Scotch-Irish. Scotland and Ireland today have lower average IQ's (and presumably a laxer work ethic) than their English neighbors (perhaps because of their isolation and because neither was colonized by the Romans—nor later the English—until relatively recently). I'm not so sure that it's been shown that American Whites that originate from different parts of Europe work equally hard when they live in the same climate. Even then, in a free and mobile country, a certain level of self-selection no doubt goes on that might tend to minimize the differences among whites in the same area that are of different nationalities. |
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