The world in 2057

Is it possible that USA is on a slowly descending course and will be replaced with EU as the next leading super power? I see three alarming tendencies:

1) Protectionism. Not only is it bad for the economy, it also breeds mental isolationanism.

2) Xenophobia. If you got rid of all illegal immigrants working in "the breadbasket" and enforced zero tolerance against anyone trying to enter the country illegally, even to make a honest living, then the food prices would skyrocket.

3) Theocracy. If you want to have a separation of state and church, then you must keep them separated.

If USA isn't breaking these tendecies like right now, then it's doomed. My guess is that in 2057 is EU a superpower far more powerful than anyone could've imagined. It rose to superpower status during the colonial wars in China on african soil. EU is allied with the African Union and are trying to contain the threat from the pan asian coalition headed by Russia and China.

>>40
What are you suggesting? We grab jews and breed them continuously? Fuck that. Use the genome project to isolate the jewish intelligence gene and put it in the Norwegian gene pool, THEN breed them continuously.

you guys don't think maybe culture, language and general level of education plays a part in IQ tests?
different cultures have different focuses, these shape peoples way of thinking and reasoning, and thus how they score on IQ tests. In  a small society in some island in the pacific they don't have words for future and past, only the now, which means that those very simple concepts doesn't make sense to them, i don't think it's that unlikely that similar things play a part in IQ testing.
Sure, you can't eliminate eugenics as a factor, but i think there are other factors than just that, that play a part in determining the general IQ of a population.  

>>40
The only thing a IQ test measures is the ability to solve IQ tests. End of story. And Gould has also refuted The Bell Curve.

>>34
You can take an IQ test in any language or one with almost purely symbols, so shut the fuck up.

>>43
That sounds like something someone with a low IQ would say.

>>45
That sounds like something an uneducated hick would say.

Presidential elections in 2008.

i have a funny feeling barak will win and all the liberals will cry because they can't whine about how the US is evil and imperialist anymore without their black liberal token friends pointing and going "RACIST!"

>>42

Linguistic Relativism is understood as a legitimate factor in determining a societal world perspective.

>>46
An uneducated hick would talk about IQ-tests?

>>46
WRONG, AN UNEDUCATED HICK WOULD WIPE HIS ASS USING AN IQ TEST

>>50
A person with a low IQ would understand the function of the IQ-test and it's limits in gauging mental capacity?

>>52
that question alone puts your IQ around 48...

>>53
Believing a person with an IQ of around 48, which is conclusively in the same range as retarded, would grasp the issues surrounding IQ tests enough to question beliefs concerning it's validity means that you are either trolling or must have a lower IQ compared to average.

>>54
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>>53
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