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[–] TheAngryImperialist 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
1: IQ and personality traits are at least 80% genetic. A black child adopted by white parents, as demonstrated time and time again, will grow up to be a black person, with black IQ, black personality traits, and black levels of success in society.
2: Culture can effectively be described as a collective compromise of the population over things they consider important. Since what people consider important is heavily dependent on personality, and personality is heavily dependent on genetics, it can literally be said that culture comes from the people, not vice versa.
While you would be correct that being born into superior cultures has a positive impact on inferior people, again, this is environmental, and therefore at most 20% compared to their inherent nature. They will never truly integrate, and their offspring will never truly integrate, up until the point that they are genetically homogenised - bred into genetic non-existence by the majority population.
3: War has, for the vast majority of human history, divided along genetic, tribal, lines for territory and resources. The Irish even have a myth where a giant half-breed was made king of the country, then made life hell for the people of that country in favour of his giant tribe. Cato back in the BCs said the best way to destroy the northern tribes of the Celts would be to take some desert dwellers and send them up to live there among the instinctively welcoming Celtic tribes. The entire idea of tribes not killing one another has more often been because of shared kinship than shared ideology.