And I said we are superior in intelligence.
These are products or attributes of history over the last 500 years. The Germans who brag so much today were good for northing bandits for most of recorded history.
But they had the required genetics inside of them to take advantage of such a time where the environment would suit...sure the Romans called them barbarians but the Romans could not fully conquer them... and also remember that the Romans were the descendants of Indo-European tribes who came from the "North" into what is Italy today... even Tacitus admired the barbarian Germanics for their discipline, courage, and chastity....
"The Romans were naturally curious about the teeming tribes of fierce, warlike people beyond the Rhine who dared contest their conquest of the lands in northern Gaul, and several Roman writers enumerated them and described their way of life, most notably the historian Gaius Cornelius Tacitus. Writing in a first-century Rome which was thoroughly mongrelized, Tacitus was strongly impressed by the Germans’ apparent racial homogeneity:
I concur in opinion with those who deem the Germans never to have intermarried with other nations but to be a pure and unmixed race, stamped with a distinct character. Hence, a family likeness pervades the whole, though their numbers are so great. Their eyes are stern and blue, their hair ruddy, and their bodies large, powerful in sudden exertion, but impatient of toil and not at all capable of sustaining thirst and heat. They are accustomed by their climate to endure cold and hunger.
Tacitus added: “Traitors and deserters are hanged; cowards and those guilty of unnatural practices are suffocated in mud under a hurdle.” Subject to the same punishment as cowards and homosexuals were draft dodgers: those who failed to present themselves for military service when summoned.
The education of the German youth stressed not only bravery and skill in arms, but loyalty in the highest degree. Tacitus gives an interesting description of the mutual obligations between a German leader and his companions in arms:
The Germans transact no business, public or private, without being armed, but it is not customary for any person to assume arms until the state has approved his ability to use them. Then, in the midst of the assembly, either one of the chiefs, or the father, or a relative, equips the youth with a shield and a spear. These are to them the manly gown (
toga virilis); this is the first honor conferred on youth. Before, they are considered as part of a household; afterwards, of the state."
https://chechar.wordpress.com/2012/07/30/germanic-people-and-the-romans-1/
I would consider the erstwhile British Empire and the current US empire banditto...very organised, disciplined, intelligent and creative banditto.
Pakistan is number 23 with an average IQ of 84. Germany has an average IQ of 99, and Hong Kong the highest with 108. Jamaica is number 35 with 71. Superior to Jamaica but inferior to Hong Kong.
https://brainstats.com/average-iq-by-country.html
There is also another aspect as to why Modern Western Civilisation has reached a zenith that surpasses all previous in summation...but that would mean delving into Islamic Eschatology.
