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Hello /lit/ i was looking for book that talk about how races differ and (if there's a rationale outside of the physical aspect of each race that explains why Europeans have better civilizations would be a plus)
THANKS!

>> No.23283506

is /lit/ brown?
why is there no replies :(

>> No.23283517

>>23283480
>>23283506
Take it to /pol/, brainlet.

>> No.23283523

>>23283517
loool knew it, cope subhuman

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>>23283480
HBD stuff gets tiring after a while. One extra study that btfos blacks or browns doesn't do much.
Bell Curve is on the relationship between IQ and various life out comes in American life, with only one chapter on race (chapter 13, possibly 20 or 21 as well I don't remember which exactly)
Second book is on the dysgenics of modernity, in particular the dropping European IQ.
Human Accomplishment is documenting human accomplishment in the arts and sciences, and attempting to quantify it. You don't really need this book to tell you, but obviously Europeans, lap the rest of the world combined ten times over.
Ten Thousand Year Explosion documents how civilization and what it brings (notably, raw numbers and it's own unique selection pressures different from a more primitive life) speed up divergence between groups.
Making Sense of Race is a compilation in ways the races differ from IQ, to even a chapter on personality (though of course there are limitations).

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>>23283525
Wrong pic

>> No.23283554

>>23283530
I appreciate your comprehensive response, my erudite friend! Those literary tomes are indeed on my reading list.

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>>23283554
Honestly, also read -- or at least skim -- shit like what you posted and pic rel. It's pure horseshit to any one with any semblance of intelligence AND agency, and in that way it helps solidify what you know.
Pic rel is a great marker; if anyone you know has read it and considered it anything better than 1 star, you can safely discard any opinions that person may hold.

>> No.23283575

>>23283506
nigger you waited 7 minutes

>> No.23283595

I wholeheartedly agree with you. I already tend to dismiss opinions from individuals who mindlessly parrot ‘everything is a social construct.’ It’s essential to engage critically with ideas rather than relying on the mainstream consensus.

>> No.23283599

^^
>>23283573

>> No.23283607

>>23283523
Imagining yourself superior doesn't make it so, parasite.

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>>23283607
>probably an immigrant living in a white country
LOL
Go back to your home country and build it like Europeans did to their homeland, you absolved yourself from your people therefore you're the parasite you coon.

>> No.23283691

>>23283656
>Tenochtitlán? What's that?
It is also rather ignorant to boast of how advanced "european civilization" is, while not long ago the Germans were seen as barbarians by the Romans, and even further back the Romans were seen as barbarians to the Greeks.

>> No.23283723

>>23283517
Observe the /pol/screecher, children. He pops up to screech whenever something that could be considered even a little bit racist is posted. He works tirelessly day and night to shit up the board. His only replies involve recycling old terms such as brainlet, chud, and drumpf, and he is required by his very programming to mention /pol/. This is how he may be identified.

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>>23283691
"Tenochtitlan, also known as Mexico-Tenochtitlan, was a large Mexican altepetl in what is now the historic center of Mexico City"
>yet 2000 beaners are hopping the border into the white man's US daily.
If you're not willing to admit that Europeans are better, and are literally defying Darwinism by allowing shitskins into their country then you're just coping pedro.

>> No.23283734

>>23283723
make 4chan white again :(

>> No.23283737

>>23283691
>not long ago
Were you born 2000 years ago, retard?

>> No.23283752

>>23283734
I'm a relative oldfag, having first found /b/ as a junior in high school in 2007, and I got the feeling that there were not many non-whites on the site. Impossible to know, though. There was also less bitching about idpol in general back then, probably because everyone IRL was white.

>> No.23283754

>>23283730
>buh buh buh brown immigrants
What does that have to do with anything. Anon called you out for the disingenuous image. The point was that Tenochtitlan 2000 years ago was comparable to Roman civilization.

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>>23283754
>The point was that Tenochtitlan 2000 years ago was comparable to Roman civilization.
Is that why no one talks about the beaner city that is obscure to most people?
btw here's a better image to entertain your humiliation fetish, you disgusting subhuman.

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>>23283754
NIGGER

>> No.23283794

>>23283768
What about the Germans 2000 years ago?
May we see a photo of their awesome huts?

>> No.23283803

>>23283794
>WE WUZ KANGS
Nigger we are in 2024

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>>23283768
>pic
hey that isn’t timbuktu. what you’re posting seems to be resting on complacency rather than a search for truth. you’re no better than cultural relativists in that regard.
>verification not required

>> No.23283823

>>23283691
>Germans were seen as barbarians by the Romans
you have no fucking idea what barbarians mean in this context lmao way to out yourself. accept who you are weirdo and make the better of it instead of going apeshit over europeans. Europe was is and always will be better at everything. it is what it is, you can move on with your life and be happy or seethe at your impotence to deny reality. go sacrifice some kids on some stones or whatever your culture is

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>>23283794
They were still technologically sophisticated, the roman legionnaire helmet was a stolen design, stolen from northern tribes. Sorry, bro.

The Aztecs, whatever the fuck they called themselves didn't even have steel. They used stone tools, literal meme-people. The coping needs to stop, it's making you jaded and bitter.

>> No.23283937

>>23283525
Ok but do any of these explain why? McDonald theorizes about early Europeans being much more individualistic due to the rough winters and low population density, Hajnal line, Church banning cousin marriage, steppe culture kicking out surplus men triggering a sort of evolutionary hyper-loop when these guys start conquering sedentary peoples of Europe.
I've yet to see it all in one place. But I bet there's a lot we did differently.

>> No.23283972

>>23283935
>the roman legionnaire helmet was a stolen design
Where did you get that from?

>> No.23283991

>>23283972
internet memes

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>>23283937
Something to consider is that the western and eastern civilizations executed their criminals for thousands of years. Very, very eugenical. Other civilizations didn't do this on the same scale or for the same duration, to my understanding. Also, the selection pressure for engineering-type behaviours was massive compared to other places on the globe with their milder, warmer climates. If you didn't have this degree of clothing, etc., you'd just freeze to death. It would've made a culture centred around that too. This clothing would've been extremely tricky to make, and it would've developed over years of continuous trial and error.

>> No.23284009

Why is there never a conclusion to these discussions? What about the status quo is supposed to change after we confirm that genetics is the primary indicator for intelligence?

>> No.23284028

>>23284009
i just get into discussions to btfo shitskins, like everyone knows that white people are superior i just love to see them cope

>> No.23284030

>>23284009
Well, according to Wikipedia:
"Today, the scientific consensus is that genetics does not explain differences in IQ test performance between racial groups."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_race_and_intelligence_controversy

>> No.23284033

>>23284030
we all know they're kikes trying to keep the white goy asleep while they're being replaced

>> No.23284041

>>23284028
Why is the superior race allowing shitskin rape mobs to destroy their civilization and tradition?

>> No.23284075

>>23284041
inb4 jews

>> No.23284117

>>23284075
you already know the answer, why are you asking me shitskin?

>> No.23284132

>>23284041
They're not destroying anything. They come here, become Wolt or Uber Eats drivers and janitors then die off in 2 generations.
>why
Europeans are the only people capable of out group thinking. They wrongly thought these people are the same as us, with more melanin.

>> No.23284157

>>23284132
>then die off in 2 generations.
they have more kids and stronger families than white people at large

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>>23284132
>They're not destroying anything. They come here, become Wolt or Uber Eats drivers and janitors then die off in 2 generations.
Don't start looking bug eyed and asking "Who let this happen?" when a group of shitskins starts looting and burning cars in the streets or when your daughters are getting gangraped by some pajeet immigrant.

>> No.23284277

>>23283768
nta but I hope that you do realize somewhere inside that you're being totally intellectually dishonest and are arguing in bad faith

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>>23283656
>Left: Europeans proudly standing before their mudhuts, 700AD
>Right: Jerusalem, 700BC

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>>23283937
In Human Accomplishment Murray tries to answer this. He finds for example that population size strongly correlated with accomplishment -- but only within Europe. Everywhere else it was effectively 0 relationship. He tested other stuff like big cities, war, government styles etc. Nothing was satisfactory.
It's obviously something to do with "innate" characteristics of Europeans and their distributions, especially within the European core of what one might call "Greater Germany" (Germanic peoples basically including NE France) and North Italy. It's not IQ alone as East Asians have a high IQ as well and yet lag heavily behind themselves. There are aspects of personality that differ in traditional models like OCEAN within-countries, though cross-country comparisons are inherently dubious for clear reasons. For example, The Japanese rated themselves as the least conscientious, and the Nigerians as the most.
I contend, though this is difficult to measure and is more of a pseud historical observation, that it is something to do with the exploratory, adventurous and "conquering" aspect of Europeans. Something similar to the quote expressed here (which is not a real movie quote, but is from some video game). There's also a romantic element not found anywhere else to the same extent. For example in the intensely dramatic life and death of Caius Julius Caesar, or Beethoven's 9th Symphony written while effectively deaf.

>> No.23284391

>>23284308
left picture is painted you retard
For the right picture; arabs had a golden age you retard, they had a civilization.

>> No.23284413

>>23283517
>>23283723
Can't talk about any controversial subject without these people rushing in and demanding an end to the discussion before it even begins.

His post would have made sense if OPs post was of typical pol quality, yet it wasn't. The anon knows this and still demands that the subject be contained with shit and lunacy. This because it risks his beliefs and he is not confident in his ability to counter it with reason.

All of these close minded fanatics lose their shit when their dogma is challenged no matter where they stand in politics or religion. Their belief systems rest on dogmatic foundations. They can't allow any threat to the foundation as (consciously or subconsciously) they rightly see such challenges as existential to their identity.

Just imagine how infuriating it must be to lean on beliefs and have absolute faith in them, only for them to fall on themselves if it were ever honestly dissected. For the follower even the slighest temptation could lead to this, and thus these belief systems have evolved defenses or become extinct. The follower always has a subconscious revulsion to any challenge against the faith, no matter what kind.

>> No.23284435

>>23284413
That’s because it’s never a discussion, it’s a confirmation of truth-skirting talking points and an affirmation of preconceived notions.
> Just imagine how infuriating it must be to lean on beliefs and have absolute faith in them, only for them to fall on themselves if it were ever honestly dissected.
Notice how the knee jerk reaction to criticism of /pol/faggotry (controlled opposition) is ad hominem.
>”What’s that? You don’t think everyone who isn’t a trve germano-nordic Evropean lived in a mudhut for all of recorded history? You must be a shitskin!!!!”
I’m more interested in the truth, not the truth as unlearned weirdos see it.

>> No.23284466

>>23284413
How can you look at the mudhut exchanges and statements such as
>Is that why no one talks about the beaner city that is obscure to most people?
and say anything but "yeah these anons were right". Anything worth keeping in this thread is despite of OP.

>> No.23284496

>>23284435
Look retard it is plainly apparent that white men make the best engineers and scientists on the planet. This fact hurts people's feelings so people try really hard to convince each other it's not true or deny reality but that doesn't change this fact. Yeah the people talking about mud huts are being stupid and/or dishonest, but Europeans used their superior engineering to conquer the entire world, no matter what variety of buildings the brown natives were living in when they showed up.

I mean European world dominance was so total that a complete list of nations never conquered by Europe can be contained in a 4chan post, and some anon will probably reply that these nations were actually conquered by Euros.

>Ethiopia
>Afghanistan
>Japan
>China
>Korea
>Iran
>Saudi Arabia
>Mongolia

>> No.23284506

>>23284391

He's saying that the Europeans were still savages while people in the Middle East and Egypt had prosperous civilizations. Later the Europeans copied everything from them so European civilization was no great achievement, because it didn't happen on its own.

>> No.23284517

>>23284496

I think you are the one denying reality. Go look at the engineering, R&D department of a corporation or any graduate school program. You will see nothing there but Indians and Chinese.

>> No.23284550

>>23284517
Chinese and Indians are probably pretty close Europeans in intellectual ability on average, there are way more of them and most of the smart ones want to live in America. I am a graduate student so I know quite of few of those guys, and they're pretty smart, but the biggest reason there is so many of them is the economic motivation. If white guys still aspired to be scientists like in the 20th century they would still dominate academia.

>> No.23284567

>>23284550
Indians are not. Chinese are in terms of IQ. But again, the difference in achievement is vast. To this day if you look at the best, for example, mathematicians, they are overwhelmingly European and Jewish
https://research.com/scientists-rankings/mathematics

>> No.23284585

>>23284435
You presume too much. Humanity is divided into races and western civilization has been the most successful. This doesn't take away from the fact that China, India and the Muslim world were more advanced during much of the middle ages, or that countries like Japan and Singapore have reached and even partly eclipsed the west (though mainly due to our downfall in recent history). The subject of race can even exist without wypipo ever being taken into account, say by comparing the Somalians to the Arabs they were in contact with throughout history.

It's these nuances that are first snuffed out as without them you just have a strawman that can safely be brushed aside, instead actual positions that are worth considering or challenging.

>> No.23284623

>>23284585
Except there is no position besides white people good, everyone else bad/inferior. Which just runs opposite to the zeitgeist. Both of them do nothing but continue the status quo. Wouldn’t it be better to encourage and not inhibit? Instead of egalitarianism or the putting down of nonwhites why not encourage them to innovate and search for truth and beauty as some europeans, arabs, indian and chinese have?

>> No.23284753

>>23284623
I think that the starting point for any discussion or decision should objective reality, not what we want from it or wish it to be. If you start with an ideal outcome and then mold objective reality to fit it you only succeed in self-delusion. Thus whether this subject encourages or inhibits by its conclusions is irrelevant, what is relevant is whether these conclusions represent objective reality or not.

I'm not sure that I understood your 1st point. Did you mean that any open discussion about race inevitably arrives at "white people better"?

>> No.23284786

>>23284753
I'll also add that nature and nurture work in a dynamic and you can't seperate the two.

>> No.23284945

>>23284132
>They're not destroying anything. They come here, become Wolt or Uber Eats drivers and janitors then die off in 2 generations.
delusion

anyway even if that would be true, they will die off in 2 generations for me it doesnt matter
I WANT THEM OUT NOW, TODAY, YOU KEK

>> No.23284989

>>23284753
> I think that the starting point for any discussion or decision should objective reality
I see only willful ignorance of reality on your part. Oh look nothing but sophistry, no real position to be found.
>Did you mean that any open discussion about race inevitably arrives at "white people better"?
Not at all.

>> No.23285010

>>23283691
>Tenochtitlán? What's that?
this but unironically

>> No.23285021

>>23284506
So arabs actually invented the phone you're typing on right now? Nah, everything you use everyday was invented by a European, know your place, fucking worm lmao

>> No.23285160

>>23283480
When you're losing on every front, getting backed into a corner, and reminiscing about some old and faggy culture is the only thing you have left :/

>> No.23285218

>>23283480
Airs, waters and Places is perhaps the first race science book ever written (430 BC). The author speculates that cowardice is an inborn trait in the inhabitants of “Asia” (Anatolia, the Fertile Crescent and Palestine) because the soil and cattle are abundant there and so they don’t have to fight for scarce materials as is the case in Scythia and mainland Europe.

>And with regard to the pusillanimity and cowardice of the inhabitants, the principal reason the Asiatics are more unwarlike and of gentler disposition than the Europeans is, the nature of the seasons, which do not undergo any great changes either to heat or cold, or the like; for there is neither excitement of the understanding nor any strong change of the body whereby the temper might be ruffled and they be roused to inconsiderate emotion and passion, rather than living as they do always in the state. It is changes of all kinds which arouse understanding of mankind, and do not allow them to get into a torpid condition. For these reasons, it appears to me, the Asiatic race is feeble, and further, owing to their laws; for monarchy prevails in the greater part of Asia, and where men are not their own masters nor independent, but are the slaves of others, it is not a matter of consideration with them how they may acquire military discipline, but how they may seem not to be warlike, for the dangers are not equally shared, since they must serve as soldiers, perhaps endure fatigue, and die for their masters, far from their children, their wives, and other friends; and whatever noble and manly actions they may perform lead only to the aggrandizement of their masters, whilst the fruits which they reap are dangers and death; and, in addition to all this, the lands of such persons must be laid waste by the enemy and want of culture. Thus, then, if any one be naturally warlike and courageous, his disposition will be changed by the institutions. As a strong proof of all this, such Greeks or barbarians in Asia as are not under a despotic form of government, but are independent, and enjoy the fruits of their own labors, are of all others the most warlike; for these encounter dangers on their own account, bear the prizes of their own valor, and in like manner endure the punishment of their own cowardice. And you will find the Asiatics differing from one another, for some are better and others more dastardly; of these differences, as I stated before, the changes of the seasons are the cause. Thus it is with Asia.

>> No.23285443

indeedd

>> No.23285564

why do you need a book bro, just flip a lightswitch, turn on your kitchen sink, open your fridge to more food you can affordably buy than kings had access to a few hundred years ago, look at the car in your driveway etc etc etc. All of that is the White Man and the White Man alone

>> No.23285566

>>23285160
>backed into a corner
Like the corners in that mosque? :)

>> No.23285627

>>23283754
>Tenochtitltan
Ummm Akshually, Tenochtitlan didn't exist 2000 years ago.
Neither did Teotihuacan. You might be thinking of the Zapotecs.
Or maybe the Olmecs, although they are from a little bit before 0 AD.
>>23285218
Tbh, you could make a passable argument on why race is a social construct out of that work alone. I'm not the one to make it though. But it is fascinating.

>> No.23285719

>>23285021
>everything you use everyday

In a few years, you will be saying the same about the Chinese.

>> No.23285920

>>23285719

>> No.23286233

>>23285564
Nothing that's made with hands is eternal. Whatever else that is, is a gift from God for all of man. History is not yet over. The other races still have time to grow and contribute to the grand scheme, just like the Europeans did. The Kingdom of Heaven is like a deceptive mustard seed. Humble yourself or be humbled.

>> No.23286235

>>23286233
No, I don't think Pygmies or Abos will.

>> No.23286238

>>23285627
The writer of the text seems to indicate race as biological fact but he also is revolutionary in putting climate as the determining factor in forming races. Ie a European living in the near East still has brave European character according to him but you can infer that Europeans born and raised there among those fertile conditions would develop “pusillanimity.”