Regions of the world populated almost totally by members of the Caucasian racial group include Eastern Europe (Albania, Moldova, the former Yugoslavia), the Middle East (Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine), and the “Stans” in Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Borat’s country). These countries may all have rich and wonderful histories, but they are hardly the safest, richest, or most stable countries on earth. The Protestant ethic and the free public schools have a great deal more to do with the high average performance of white, Asian, and West Indian Americans than does their genetic
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