IQ,
Crime, Nobel Prizes, And Immigration: The Diversity That Is Destroying Western
Civilization
Like
water, culture — if it’s not protected — will flow to the lowest point until
equilibrium sets in.
Vince Coyner |
May 27, 2026 www.americanthinker.com
Sometimes data or information that seems completely disconnected can tell a
story when taken together. I experienced that recently. Over the
course of a few days I saw a number of posts on X that caught my
attention. First was a post stating that “Whites make up only 8% of the
world’s population… so in fact, we are the minority.” That 8% is down
from a peak of approximately 25% in the 19th century.
Next I saw a post that featured a map of the world and showed the
average IQ of the citizens. Hong Kong had the highest, with 107.7 while
Somalia had the lowest 83.8. Both nations are largely homogeneous while the
very diverse United States comes in at 101. Generally sub-Saharan Africa
has the lowest scores while eastern Asia has the highest.
Then I saw a post about Denmark and who commits crimes
based on their nation of origin. The data wasn’t pretty. In
every category from rape to attempted murder and everything in between,
foreigners were far more likely to be the perpetrators than Danes. Rape
gives you an idea of exactly how the data played out: Somalis were 20x
more likely to commit rapes than Danes. Syrians, 16x, Palestinians, 12x,
Afghans, 11x, and Iraqis, 9x. Somalis were 27x more likely to attempt to
commit murder as well.
Then finally I saw a post that listed Nobel
Prize winners by nationality. The United States had by far the most,
with 425, followed in second place by the U.K. with 114. Of the 15 nations
with the highest number of prizes, only one, Japan at #7 with 33, is the only
one not from a largely white western nation. Of the one thousand or so prizes
awarded since 1901, approximately 85% went to white males, 10% to women, 5%
went to Asians, 2% to Latin Americans, and 1% to blacks.
At this point I’ve got these disparate bits of information in my head, but
nothing is quite clicking, but I’m certain there is something to be discerned.
Then I realize I’m reading all of this on the backdrop of Europe and the rest
of the West being invaded by people coming from the very nations that are on
the bottom of those IQ score charts. I say invaded, but in reality it’s
more like the doors are being flung open by the globalist elites in Brussels
and Washington.
Now of course, it has to be said that IQ scores are but one measure of a
person. Indeed, having a high IQ score doesn’t guarantee that someone is
going to be a good or successful person. Both Ted Bundy and Ted Kaczynski were
said to have IQs of approximately 136 while Mohammed Ali, known for his
dazzling verbal agility, scored
a 78.
Nonetheless, on a national scale there is a rather strong correlation
between IQ and the wealth of a nation. Which makes one question why
the leaders of Western nations have been so adamant, for so long, that they
must allow unfettered immigration from so many low IQ nations where the
populations do not share the most fundamental of Western values?
The folly of such policies is legion. Across Europe we
read almost daily about women and
children being raped by “migrants,” not to mention churches
burning and
no-go zones where police fear to enter. Across the United States, in
addition to blatant fraud, a majority
of immigrants are recipients of government largesse and basic services like
schools and hospitals are overwhelmed.
The reality is, “diversity” for diversity’s sake is never, ever, a positive
for Western civilization.
Now, of course the left will cry that not everyone from Somalia or
Afghanistan or Nicaragua has an IQ in the eighties, and even if they did, they
deserve an opportunity to better their lives. Both statements may be true
individually, but neither suggests why the West should open its doors to them
in aggregate. The reality is, there are members of any group who perform — or
in this case score on an IQ test — better than the majority of citizens of
their countries. And while it might be nice to identify and offer such people
entry, that’s not how it works. In both Europe and the United States, for
far too long the borders have simply been erased and tens of millions of third
world “refugees” have entered, bringing with them the very third-world values
that kept their nations from succeeding in the first place.
The reality is, over the last 500 years, almost all of the advances that
have come about that have improved the lives of mankind have come from white
males living in Western civilizations. This is particularly true since the
founding of the United States. That doesn’t mean that others haven’t
contributed or that the white males got or get everything right, because they
most certainly didn’t. But it does make one wonder why the leaders of the
civilizations built by that group are so determined to destroy everything that
they built in the name of diversity.
If the goal were to improve the lives of the less fortunate around the
world, Western leaders would be exporting the things that made the West
successful in the first place… Law and order, education, capitalism, the
scientific method, limited government, individual freedom, Christianity, and
equality under the law. In general, these are the foundational elements
that created prosperity and built Western civilization, and the third world
immigrants who are streaming into the West share almost none of them, and few
assimilate to them once they arrive.
That dichotomy is a grenade waiting to explode. The crime chart from
the formerly safe Denmark makes that perfectly clear, as does the use of
welfare programs by immigrants in the United States.
But of course, it’s not just IQ. Indeed, in the United States we have a
program whose applicants dovetail with high-IQ programs — H-1B — but that
program is terribly problematic as it sacrifices American workers so that big
businesses can import Indians and pay them less for the same work. At the
same time, east Asian nations, with the highest IQ scores in the world, are
sorely lacking in the kinds of advances reflected in Nobel prizes, which in
turn drive advances and prosperity.
The reality is, Western civilization, for all of its many, many faults, has
given mankind most of the things that drive the world today: Automobiles,
telephones, airplanes, MRI machines, computers, and much more. And the
world envies it. How can you tell? Because millions of people from
around the world invade the United States, France, the U.K., Italy, Sweden, and
more every year. But how many people do you see paying coyotes thousands of
dollars to sneak them into Mexico or Cuba or Somalia or India or Lebanon?
Not many.
As the influence of these third world “migrants” grows, particularly
Muslims, the West will find its unprecedented standard of living continue to
decline. High-trust societies cannot import those who have no regard for
the cultures of their hosts. Like water, culture — if it’s not protected — will
flow to the lowest point until equilibrium sets in. With whites at 8% of
the world’s population and the foundational values that built Western
civilization under attack from within and without, that equilibrium is going to
look far more like Beirut or Mogadishu or Caracas than it will London or New
York or Paris at their peaks. No, thank you….
