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this study (The genetic structure of populations from Haiti and Jamaica reflect divergent demographic histories) is based on only 15 autosomal STRs, the results appear reasonable.
a stronger African signal is detected in Haiti than in Jamaica. Although only minimal contributions from non-African sources were observed in Haiti, Jamaica displays genetic input from both European and East Asian sources, an admixture profile similar to other New World collections of African descent analyzed in this report.
Average admixture proportions for Haiti are estimated to be: 95.5% African; 0.3% East Asian; 4.3% European. For Jamaica: 78.3%; 5.7%; 16.0%.
Well, the admixture didn't do them much good in the brains department. In Lynn and Vanhanen's book their samples of Jamaica showed an average IQ of 72, tied with Kenya, ZA, Sudan, and Tanzania. I've actually been to that island myself and it does resemble your average fallen-apart African country.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't Jamaica have a much higher GDP than Haiti?
ReplyDeleteLittle known fact: almost all of the successful Africans who comes from various Caribbean islands have some Jewish admixture (usually Sephardic) because Jews were the main slave-traders there and they often had offspring with the African slaves whom they brought over to the New World to work on their sugar plantations.
ReplyDelete"Little known fact: almost all of the successful Africans who comes from various Caribbean islands have some Jewish admixture (usually Sephardic) because Jews were the main slave-traders there and they often had offspring with the African slaves whom they brought over to the New World to work on their sugar plantations."
ReplyDeleteCould you actually back this fact up? Another fact: Sephardic jews have lower IQ's than ashkenazi jews.
"Doesn't Jamaica have a much higher GDP than Haiti?"
ReplyDeleteYes. It also has an HDI on the level of Ukraine and Iran. It's the second worst afro-carribean country after Haiti. No other is remotely as bad as Haiti.
"Well, the admixture didn't do them much good in the brains department. In Lynn and Vanhanen's book their samples of Jamaica showed an average IQ of 72, tied with Kenya, ZA, Sudan, and Tanzania."
That would seem to make those figures incredibly suspect, wouldn't it?
Regardless as to the issue of how many jews actually participated in the slave trade, I'm pretty sure it was quite uncommon for slave masters themselves to breed with their slaves.
ReplyDelete"Sephardic jews have lower IQ's than ashkenazi jews."
ReplyDeleteThat didn't stop them from dominating the economy of Spain for a long time...hence the reason they were expelled en masse in 1492.
...and also specifically targeted by the Inquisition.
ReplyDeleteThat would seem to make those figures incredibly suspect, wouldn't it?
ReplyDeleteNot necessarily. IQ is not the only factor in a country's aggregate development, not by a long shot. For example -- as you mentioned, Ukraine is low on the HDI scale but there are historical reasons for that, i.e., much of the Ukraine has not yet adopted industrial farming, there are high rates of alcoholism and illegitimacy going back to Communist days, etc.
I've seen many DNA tests from Haitians online and their average should be 88 percent not 95.5 percent African. That is false.
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