The Northeast Asian Cognitive Profile and its Evolution
The Northeast Asian and Asian American spatial IQ sits at 110, while the corresponding verbal IQ is approximately 97.
The consensus among scientists today is that the high IQ of Northeast Asians evolved in response to some of the coldest habitable terrain on Earth.
Harsh terrain - especially in Japan, and to a somewhat lesser extent in Korea and China - caused the evolution of high cognitive ability and its corresponding encephalization. Japan’s terrain in particular was especially challenging: the archipelago was accessible only by seacraft, while those who arrived in Japan were forced to subsist on terrain featuring almost no natural resources or arable land.
American Indians (Native Americans) exhibit this same lopsided cognitive profile (i.e., higher spatial than verbal intelligence), although the entire profile is shifted downward by about 15 IQ points, or roughly one standard deviation. The late scientist J. Philippe Rushton believed that as Northeast Asians migrated into the Americas, they encountered a less challenging terrain replete with more flora and fauna for dietary consumption. This subsequently dulled evolutionary pressure selecting for IQ.
The Pacific Rim Racial Hierarchy
The Japanese have long seen themselves as higher than Koreans, who in turn have seen themselves as higher than the Chinese. The Chinese in turn see themselves as higher than Southeast Asians (including Malays, Indonesians, Cambodians, Laotians, and Filipinos). The Japanese term for China (
shina) has extremely negative connotations. Japan governed both Korea and Taiwan during the first part of the twentieth century.
Asian Americans and the Left
If Asian Americans are intelligent, why have the majority of them adopted left-wing ideology and vote for the Democratic party and its concurrent horrors of Marxism and Communism? As one of numerous examples, 71% of Asian American voters voted for Barack Obama in 2012; while only 28% voted for Mitt Romney.
The answer is that since the inception of the 1960s and 1970s counterculture movement, Asian Americans have been inculcated via media and education into propaganda depicting white people (especially white men) and Western Civilization in a negative manner. Because people of Northeast Asian descent are more ethnocentric (Dutton, 2019) than people of Northwestern European descent, Asian Americans see white Americans as “the other” and tend to psychologically conflate conservatism with the European Americans (especially European American men) that they have been taught to see in a negative manner.
A minority of Asian American men (and a smaller minority of Asian American women) do support conservative causes. These cases consist of a handful of refugees who have lived firsthand and have fled the horrors of Communism, most notably Yeonmi Park of North Korea; as well as those supporting the Republican party because of a Christian religious faith or from a conscious support for a free market economic system.