A very interesting post to set your mind on a different level of thinking.

 

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….