Cultural oddities

[Monello]

Most of these facts come from data from research Thomas Sowell did when he wrote his books. He's the author of 51 different books on economics, race and cultures.

In the 1850s, 3 countries, America, Germany & Britian produced most of the world's manufactured goods.

In 1998 Chinese nationals were 5% of the population of Indonesia. Yet they owned 80% of the capital.

In 1920, Jews were 11% of Poland's population and > 50% of the doctors in Poland were Jewish.

1900 illiteracy rates for the Austrian empire: Poles - 40%, Serbs/Croats - 75%, Germans - 6%.

 

[HemiHauler]

1900 illiteracy rates for the Austrian empire: Poles - 40%, Serbs/Croats - 75%, Germans - 6%.

Well there were at least six langages spoken in the Austrian empire around this time, so without more context this doesn’t mean very much.

 

[Gilligan]

Well there were at least six langages spoken in the Austrian empire around this time, so without more context this doesn’t mean very much.

Awesome.

 

[Monello]

In 1950, over 40% of the world's adults were illiterate. In Asia & AFrica adults, more than 50% were illiterate.

A study of National Merit Scholarship finalists, found that, among finalists from 5 child families, the first-born was the finalist more often than the other four siblings combined.

IQ data from Britain, Germany and the United States showed that the average IQ of first-born children was higher than the average IQ of their later-born siblings. The average IQ of second-born children as a group was higher than the average IQ of third-born children.

Of the 29 original astronauts in the Apollo program that put a man on the moon, 22 were either first-born or an only child.

The Chinese had cast iron a thousand years before the Europeans.

In 1994, the 57 million “overseas Chinese” produced as much wealth as the billion people living in China.

 

[Monello]

Japanese firms seeking to find locations for their first businesses in the United States have specified that they do not want to locate near concentrations of blacks in the local population.

In Australia, Chinese students have spent more than twice as much time on their homework as white students did.

The real per capita income that Britain reached in 1880 was not reached by Spain until 1960, and by Portugal until 1970.

The United States has more than five times as many billionaires as Africa and the Middle East put together.

It would be difficult to find even a single country, ruled by Marxists, where the standard of living of working-class people has been as high as that of working-class people in a number of capitalist countries.

London had a total of just 12 armed robberies all year in 1954, at a time when anyone could buy a shotgun. But, in later years, armed robberies rose to 1,400 by 1981 and 1,600 in 1991,28 despite increasingly severe restrictions on the purchase of firearms.