Demography is Destiny¶
For a blast of sudden, icy clarity, this is worth recalling:
After decades of American Ed theorists and politicians grumbling
about our low ranking on international tests, we now know that, as
Steve Sailer summarized in 2010, reviewing the PISA (Program for International Student
Assessment) results from the previous year:
* Asian Americans outscored every Asian country, and lost out only
to the city of Shanghai, China’s financial capital.
* White Americans students outperformed the national average in
every one of the 37 historically white countries tested, except
Finland (which is, perhaps not
coincidentally, an
immigration restrictionist
nation where whites make up about 99 percent of the
population).
* Hispanic Americans beat all eight Latin American countries.
* African Americans would likely have outscored any sub-Saharan
country, if any had bothered to compete. The closest thing to a
black country out of PISA’s 65 participants is the fairly
prosperous oil-refining Caribbean country of Trinidad and Tobago,
which is roughly evenly divided between blacks and South Asians.
African Americans outscored Trinidadians by 25 points.
Racially disaggregate a conundrum that has tortured progressive education reformers for over a century, and it entirely disappears. Non-discrimination is mental and cultural chaos.