Hi Peter. Once again just to say your work is having a big impact on me!
You say here that most immigrants are coming from countries where 1) trust is largely limited to family and close friends 2)where cognitive ability is lower and 3) where disputes are settled through violence. I'm starting to read the research on intelligence and different cultures. Is there research to show genetic components in different cultures relating to the other two components?: trust in family and friends primarily (I guess this is a close ties bent) 3) And violence in order to settle disputes? I've read some of your stuff saying that certain cultures have bodies that are predisposed to fighting. Is there research showing that different cultures have genes linked to these behavioural traits and/or that these traits also show up when people are raised within Western cultures?
For trust and related factors (empathy, guilt proneness, rule following), I reviewed the genetic evidence in:
Frost, P. (2020). The large society problem in Northwest Europe and East Asia. Advances in Anthropology, 10(3), 214-134. https://doi.org/10.4236/aa.2020.103012
Ideally, we need to create a polygenic score for each of these factors or for all of them together.
For aggressiveness, you can read the paper I co-authored with Henry Harpending:
Frost, P. & H. Harpending. (2015). Western Europe, state formation, and genetic pacification. Evolutionary Psychology, 13(1), 230-243. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F147470491501300114
There has been a lot of interest in the "warrior gene" MAO-A. See, for example:
Again, we need to identify more of the genes that contribute to human aggressiveness and calculate a polygenic score. I hope to post an article on this subject soon.
Thank you so much Peter. This is a very comprehensive response and a fantastic map to all the core parts of what you're saying. I will work through these and they will be extremely helpful!
I've just started reading A farewell to Alms after reading one of your articles and really enjoying it 🙂
Looking for an insight into politics using the visible American politics --- ? --- The so-called two part system? ---Aish -- The personalities and ideas that inhabit the visible, the so-called two-party politics, are not there to enlighten us. "Trump: White America's savior?" --- I am sorry if I do a cruel chuckle. That's why white people are finished.
I was one of those who read your original 2012 EvoAndProud essay "Obama: White America's Boogeyman?" In that essay, you expressed the (somewhat unconventional) view that Democrats may be better for white America than Republicans. It was a bit unconventional, but the GOP at that time was the pre-Trump globalists, so you kind of had a point.
However, the rise of Trumpism in the late 2010s has remade the GOP completely. The old GOP is history, and Trumpism is here to stay, with the effect that the issue of white identity and immigration has now come to the forefront -- perhaps irreversibly. So with that in mind, it's clear that the GOP now represents White America and its interests -- it's inextricably linked to it now, in a much stronger way than before. This is the big change that's occurred since your original essay was written. It's not the "uniparty" of globalists anymore, it's truly the de-facto white party vs. the de-facto non-white party. This may have been unclear before, but is clear now.
As someone experiencing all these political developments here in the US I would also suggest that, as simplistic as it sounds, Trump is in fact the White savior. There's no need to over-analyze this, it happens to be true. It's really as simple as that. He's the only who can counteract the vestiges of any pre-Trump globalism in his party and enact pro-white policies, and he's doing it successfully. Without Trump, white decline could be accelerated or irreversible, and he's standing up to it in full force. So is FOX News, now a de-facto White TV network, stressing tribal White interests and White identity. My point is that things are in fact what they seem. Trump/MAGA has re-oriented the GOP toward White interests, and is not only entrusted with saving them, but may actually be successful in doing so. There's no need for ambiguity or unconventional viewpoints now.
Never put all your faith in one man. For one thing, Trump is too easily influenced by the "advisors" around him, and he often mechanically repeats what they say without even asking if it makes sense. A recent example was his recent claim that we need to increase immigration in order to meet labor needs created by AI. In fact, AI will probably abolish as much work as it creates.
Trump is, at best, a lesser evil, and perhaps simply more of the same evil.
Hi Peter. Once again just to say your work is having a big impact on me!
You say here that most immigrants are coming from countries where 1) trust is largely limited to family and close friends 2)where cognitive ability is lower and 3) where disputes are settled through violence. I'm starting to read the research on intelligence and different cultures. Is there research to show genetic components in different cultures relating to the other two components?: trust in family and friends primarily (I guess this is a close ties bent) 3) And violence in order to settle disputes? I've read some of your stuff saying that certain cultures have bodies that are predisposed to fighting. Is there research showing that different cultures have genes linked to these behavioural traits and/or that these traits also show up when people are raised within Western cultures?
For trust and related factors (empathy, guilt proneness, rule following), I reviewed the genetic evidence in:
Frost, P. (2020). The large society problem in Northwest Europe and East Asia. Advances in Anthropology, 10(3), 214-134. https://doi.org/10.4236/aa.2020.103012
Ideally, we need to create a polygenic score for each of these factors or for all of them together.
For aggressiveness, you can read the paper I co-authored with Henry Harpending:
Frost, P. & H. Harpending. (2015). Western Europe, state formation, and genetic pacification. Evolutionary Psychology, 13(1), 230-243. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F147470491501300114
There has been a lot of interest in the "warrior gene" MAO-A. See, for example:
Mustafayeva, U., Yuksel, B., & Akkan, O. (2024). Usability of MAO-A gene in the judicial process. Medicine Science, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.5455/medscience.2024.01.09
Again, we need to identify more of the genes that contribute to human aggressiveness and calculate a polygenic score. I hope to post an article on this subject soon.
Thank you so much Peter. This is a very comprehensive response and a fantastic map to all the core parts of what you're saying. I will work through these and they will be extremely helpful!
I've just started reading A farewell to Alms after reading one of your articles and really enjoying it 🙂
Looking for an insight into politics using the visible American politics --- ? --- The so-called two part system? ---Aish -- The personalities and ideas that inhabit the visible, the so-called two-party politics, are not there to enlighten us. "Trump: White America's savior?" --- I am sorry if I do a cruel chuckle. That's why white people are finished.
I was one of those who read your original 2012 EvoAndProud essay "Obama: White America's Boogeyman?" In that essay, you expressed the (somewhat unconventional) view that Democrats may be better for white America than Republicans. It was a bit unconventional, but the GOP at that time was the pre-Trump globalists, so you kind of had a point.
However, the rise of Trumpism in the late 2010s has remade the GOP completely. The old GOP is history, and Trumpism is here to stay, with the effect that the issue of white identity and immigration has now come to the forefront -- perhaps irreversibly. So with that in mind, it's clear that the GOP now represents White America and its interests -- it's inextricably linked to it now, in a much stronger way than before. This is the big change that's occurred since your original essay was written. It's not the "uniparty" of globalists anymore, it's truly the de-facto white party vs. the de-facto non-white party. This may have been unclear before, but is clear now.
As someone experiencing all these political developments here in the US I would also suggest that, as simplistic as it sounds, Trump is in fact the White savior. There's no need to over-analyze this, it happens to be true. It's really as simple as that. He's the only who can counteract the vestiges of any pre-Trump globalism in his party and enact pro-white policies, and he's doing it successfully. Without Trump, white decline could be accelerated or irreversible, and he's standing up to it in full force. So is FOX News, now a de-facto White TV network, stressing tribal White interests and White identity. My point is that things are in fact what they seem. Trump/MAGA has re-oriented the GOP toward White interests, and is not only entrusted with saving them, but may actually be successful in doing so. There's no need for ambiguity or unconventional viewpoints now.
Never put all your faith in one man. For one thing, Trump is too easily influenced by the "advisors" around him, and he often mechanically repeats what they say without even asking if it makes sense. A recent example was his recent claim that we need to increase immigration in order to meet labor needs created by AI. In fact, AI will probably abolish as much work as it creates.
Trump is, at best, a lesser evil, and perhaps simply more of the same evil.