Violence against Women

Intimate Partner Abuse

Sexual Violence per the Global Burden of Disease Report 2021

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The astute reader might notice the unusually high rate of violence in Sweden. Well, there is an explanation for this: 85% of ‘stranger’ rapes in Sweden are carried out by migrants.

Women’s Physical Security

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Politics

Press Freedom

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Government Corruption

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Legal System Upholds Property Rights

The following map is interesting – it shows how well the legal system protect property through laws, enforcement against government seizure, intellectual property protections, and contract enforcement. Therefore, this is not a map of crime.

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I imagine that you, my dear reader, are surprised and doubtful at how pessimistic this map is regarding property rights. Surely all governments respect their citizen’s property and care about protecting it – after all, isn’t protection of property the whole purpose of government? Well no. Countries that are not western countries generally don’t really have any concept that people have the right to control their own property (and as discussed Democrats Import Voters, when they move to western countries, their mindsets remain the same). These next two maps prove this:

Crime

Homicide Rate

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Slavery

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Homicide in 1880

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Cannibalism (for fun)

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Cannibalism in Texas (my home!)

One of the funnier cannibalism stories I have been exposed to is that of the Tonkawa tribe in Texas.

Here is the historical context to the story: throughout the 1800s, the Comanches extensively raided Texas and became enemies not just with the white people in Texas, but basically with all of the Indian tribes who lived in Texas (and remember, Mexico only let white people move to Texas because they were unable to defeat the Comanche raiders themselves, and so wanted to set up Texas as a buffer state between Mexico and the Comanches). Therefore, it became necessary for the Texan raiders to join forces with some of the Indian tribes to stop the Comanche raids, and they did so with the Tonkawa tribe.

So, the story is that following a battle in which the Texan rangers and the Tonkawa tribe joined forces to defeat the Comanche, the Texan forces then spotted the Tonkawa roasting and eating the fallen Comanches. But the Texans rangers were apparently fine with this, so the Tonkawa remained allies.

You can read about this on page 27 of Smithsonian Contributions to Anthology – Notes on the History and Material Culture of the Tonkawa Indians, from which here is a screenshot:

However, it wasn’t just the white Texans who accused the Tonkawa of being cannibals – so also did the other native American tribes who were in contact with the Tonkawa. For example, the Kiowa word for Tonkawa literally means Man Eater (Kiowa Ethnonymy of Other Populations).

Apparently, the Comanches also joined the Kiowa in also calling Tonkawa “man eaters”, as we can see here (from Notes on the History and Material Culture of the Tonkawa Indians):

Cannibalism in Utah (where all my relatives live!)

You, my dear reader, probably still don’t believe cannibalism ever happened – even though basically everyone in the colonial world knew that various jungle native populations performed it, and they lived much closer in history to the time of cannibalism than we do. But we don’t need to have an argument about whether the people who lived next door to native Americans understood their practices better than modern political pundits in the 21^st century whose interests are corrupted by political intrigue. Science indisputably shows that some of the native American tribes performed cannibalism:

Archaeologists have quite literally discovered human feces containing remnants of partially digested human flesh from an Anasazi site! You can read more from this nature published research paper, which also details from the archeological site:

• Disarticulated, cut-marked, and burned human bones left on floors (not buried).
• Stone tools with human blood residue.
• Cooking pot shards with human myoglobin (muscle protein) residue.

On a larger scale, in Man Corn: Cannibalism and Violence in the Prehistoric American Southwest (1999), researchers excavated 76 Anasazi sites across the Four Corners region and identified strong evidence of cannibalism – including butchered, cut-marked, burned, and marrow-extracted bones left in non-burial contexts – at about 38 of those sites. Per their calculations, this could only have come from a minimum of 286 cannibalized individuals (source).

Final Notes

I include stories from Texas and Utah because I am well acquainted with the history of these two states. The other benefit of discussing these areas is that we know a lot more about Native Americans from Texas and Utah, compared to from most regions, given that white people still were fighting these groups up until the late 1800s, and because many of the Indian archeological sites in the four corners area weren’t destroyed by agriculture.

As time goes on, it of course becomes easier and easier to deny that cannibalism ever happened, as cannibalistic tribes no longer exist today, beyond a few isolated enclaves, such as the Korowai people in Papua New Guinea.

Intelligence

IQ measured by test scores

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Traditionally, people use data from Richard Lynn to create world IQ maps, however I don’t like Lynn because I think he has deliberately biased his data towards certain countries (source 1 and source 2). Thus, the above map is actually an aggregate map of test scores collected by the world bank which I think is a good proxy for intelligence. Since this map is produced from much broader samples, I think it is more credible.

* Also, here is a map of duration of government compulsory education – as you can see, it poorly explains variation among countries in the above graph:

Nobel Prize Winners Per Capita

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Global Innovation Index

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Within Country Comparisons

USA

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* The real disparity is probably a lot wider than this graph, seeing that about half of all criminals classified by the criminal justice system as “white” are actually Hispanic (see How The Federal Government Inflates Crime Statistics For Whites).

Brazil

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