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The ideology of Multiculturalism allows its European advocates to attain socioeconomic status and so they advocate and enforce it; but they are also often able to insulate themselves from many of its short-term negative effects such as inter-ethnic violence. The failure to consider the long-term implications of such an ideology, in terms of genetic interests, would seem to imply a low level of ethnocentrism.

The Industrial Revolution can be understood to have considerably weakened Natural Selection by, in numerous respects, reducing natural harshness. Its achievements have included inoculation against childhood diseases, ever-improving standards of medical science, hugely improved sanitation and living conditions for most people, considerably cheaper nutritious food

ethnic minorities will tend to support immigration. This is because displacing the majority population will be in their interests since it will reduce the influence of this population and potentially increase the influence of their minority group. So, we might expect certain minority groups to actively collaborate with an invading force, especially if they were more genetically similar to it than they were to the maj

The strategy of Middle Easterners must also be more ethnocentric than that of Europeans. Their average intelligence is considerably lower, as is their general level of K, due to a relatively more unpredictable, though relatively more easy, ecology. This would lead to high levels of conflict.

There are two kinds of groups that will lack genius. Firstly, there is the group which is extremely K evolved, such as the Northeast Asians. This will have a very small gene pool and, hence, a lower level of genius than a group that is only slightly less K evolved and has slightly lower average intelligence but has a larger gene pool

Jews were the most ethnocentric (or group-oriented) religious group despite being the least religious and they maintained this status when factors such as religiousness and intelligence were controlled for. A plausible explanation is that their high levels of ethnocentrism are a function of their small gene pool or, if this is incorrect, their isolation and persecution has selected for

if Arabs are assumed to be lower in K than Europeans, due to a less harsh and less predictable ecology? We would argue that this can be partly explained by relatively high levels of cousin marriage. This would reduce the gene pool down to a series of competing tribes that would be internally strongly related. This would motivate high levels of both kinds of ethnocentrism

East Asians: a slow Life History strategy would be expected to manifest itself in high positive ethnocentrism and low negative ethnocentrism. However, this is combined with a relatively high level of Neuroticism — selected for due to the dangerous nature of the environment, very low Openness, very high Conscientiousness (predicting a desire for rules and order), and a very small gene pool

DRD4 7-Repeat, National Frequency (DRD4). This is a dopamine receptor genes which is associated with many aspects of a fast Life History, such as, on the 7-repeat, impulsiveness, financial risk-taking, gambling, and delinquency

5HTTLPR S-Allele National Frequency (5HTT). This serotonin transporter gene is associated with sensitivity to context and especially stressful situations. Those possessing the s-form display

a K-strategy (Slow Life History Strategy) involves lower reproductive rates, higher parental investment and a slower life. This tends to develop in environments which are stable. In such ecologies, r-strategists of the same species will not have sufficient predators and, accordingly, will breed until they have reached their environmental carrying capacity

G allele frequencies among East Asian populations are in fact much higher than those in European populations

there is indirect evidence that Northeast Asians are more sensitive to oxytocin and that this, indeed, causes their cultures to be more collectivist and more ethnocentric than European cultures.

A118G (OPRM1) is a genetic basis of the fear of social exclusion. G and A polymorphisms in this gene regulate μ-opioid receptors. A study showed that subjects with the G allele showed stronger unpleasant feelings (based on fMRI) when they were excluded

Wilson and Sober (1994) have espoused the ‘Multi-Level Selection Theory’. Wilson and Sober argue that selection can occur on multiple levels including on the individual, the kinship group, the group, and the entire species. Once cooperative groups develop within a species, selection will promote those groups which have the optimum level of qualities which allow them to outcompete other groups

body of evidence would indicate that the idea of an ‘ethnocentric personality’ cannot be accepted. This would imply that ethnocentrism is not the by-product of a particular or series of partly heritable personality traits, though aspects of it — such as prejudice against non-co-ethnics — are associated with certain personality traits

research by Italian geneticist Luigi Cavalli-Sforza (1997) has shown that divisions and sub-divisions of languages correspond remarkably well with populations (as defined by genetic distances) and boundaries of steep genetic gradients.

we would expect ethnic conflict to be more intense the larger the genetic difference between the two ethnic groups. As already noted, this is precisely what has been found by Vanhanen (2012)

Sociobiology’s main innovation was to posit the main genetic mechanism behind pro-social behaviour among animals, a mechanism which is termed ‘inclusive fitness’.
animal can duplicate its genes in two ways. It can do so directly, through reproduction, or indirectly, through aiding the reproductive efforts of its relatives, with whom it will share specific proportions of genes, above a base rate of nil

A cold environment would have strongly selected in favor of intelligence because it would require the ability to plan, conceive of survival strategies (such as building shelters and making clothes) in extremely harsh conditions, and it would select in favor of very low time preference, of those able to think far into the future to plan for the colder times. This is known as the Cold Winters Theory.

The concept of ‘race’ is a scientific category because the essence of a scientific category is that it allows correct predictions to be made, and this is certainly the case with regard to ‘race’.

As Natural Selection weakened, more and more people with mutant genes — who would not have survived under Natural Selection — survived and procreated, as did maladaptive ideas such as atheism and thus low ethnocentrism.