This is silliness. Bhutan is not Mogadishu.
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It's a very powerful statistical proxy for "the majority of the problem".
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... Communism (which, like Islam, is not wholly independent of genetic factors) was a powerful enough ideology to significantly screw up the pattern of Lynn's IQ and economic performance map.
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How is communism dependent on genetic factors?
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Predisposition to collectivism is a heritable trait.
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A trait that is apparently found in everyone from Slavs to Venezuelan Amerindians?
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Quite.
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It's more dependent on historical and cultural factors. West and East Slavs are only significantly divided by language and religion, not genetics, yet have different predispositions towards collectivism and attitudes towards communism.
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One example: Catholic West and South Slavs voted for right wing parties after the fall of communism; Orthodox East Slavs continued to vote for communist and socialist parties.
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