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American Economist Explains Why Igbos Are Envied by Narcop: 1:39pm On Jul 21, 2022
From: https://biafraspot.com/threads/thomas-sowell-discusses-why-groups-such-as-igbos-jews-and-chinese-are-dominant.12/

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Asian Americans are a substantial presence in this region but they are by no means a majority, much less such an overwhelming majority as they are among those winning high tech awards.

This pattern of disproportionate representation of particular groups among those with special skills and achievements is not confined to Asian Americans or even to the United States. It is a phenomenon among particular racial, ethnic or other groups in countries around the world — the Ibos in Nigeria, the Parsees in India, the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, Germans in Brazil, Chinese in Malaysia, Lebanese in West Africa, Tamils in Sri Lanka. The list goes on and on.

Gross inequalities in skills and achievements have been the rule, not the exception, on every inhabited continent and for centuries on end. Yet our laws and government policies act as if any significant statistical difference between racial or ethnic groups in employment or income can only be a result of their being treated differently by others.

Nor is this simply an opinion. Businesses have been sued by the government when the representation of different groups among their employees differs substantially from their proportions in the population at large. But, no matter how the human race is broken down into its components — whether by race, sex, geographic region or whatever — glaring disparities in achievements have been the rule, not the exception.

Anyone who watches professional basketball games knows that the star players are by no means a representative sample of the population at large. The book "Human Accomplishment" by Charles Murray is a huge compendium of the top achievements around the world in the arts and sciences, as well as in sports and other fields.

Nowhere have these achievements been random or representative of the demographic proportions of the population of a country or of the world. Nor have they been the same from one century to the next. China was once far more advanced technologically than any country in Europe, but then it fell behind and more recently is gaining ground.

Most professional golfers who participate in PGA tournaments have never won a single tournament, but Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods have each won dozens of tournaments.

Yet these and numerous other disparities in achievement are resolutely ignored by those whose shrill voices denounce disparities in rewards, as if these disparities are somehow suspicious at best and sinister at worst.

Higher achieving groups — whether classes, races or whatever — are often blamed for the failure of other groups to achieve. Politicians and intellectuals, especially, tend to conceive of social questions in terms that allow them to take on the role of being on the side of the angels against the forces of evil.This can be a huge disservice to those individuals and groups who are lagging behind, for it leads them to focus on a sense of grievance and victimhood, rather than on how they can lift themselves up instead of trying to pull other people down.

Again, this is a worldwide phenomenon — a sad commentary on the down side of the brotherhood of man.

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Re: American Economist Explains Why Igbos Are Envied by jumper524(m): 1:41pm On Jul 21, 2022
As the educated ones amongst them no get sense, na so the smart ones go dey fool them with sensation.
Re: American Economist Explains Why Igbos Are Envied by Narcop: 1:42pm On Jul 21, 2022
“Where middlemen are an ethnically distinct group -the Jews, the Chinese in SouthEast Asia, the east Indians in Uganda, the Ibos in Nigeria- that ethnic group is hated by the masses who deal with them” ~Dr. Thomas Sowell

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Re: American Economist Explains Why Igbos Are Envied by Narcop: 1:44pm On Jul 21, 2022
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From: https://biafraspot.com/threads/thomas-sowell-discusses-why-groups-such-as-igbos-jews-and-chinese-are-dominant.12/



Speaking more on middlemen:
While such individuals might be of any ethnic background, in Nigeria they were often from the Ibo tribe,
in whose culture "thrift, resourcefulness and foresight were the principal themes." Some Ibos “began trading with a few shillings or even a few pence derived from the sale of agricultural or jungle produce.” From there they proceeded to rise, step by step, as they “slightly enlarged their still very small scale of operations” until eventually they were able to become established in retailing. “In practically all cases they were members of farming families.”

"This suggests that what their enemies feel is not simply a need to be rid of them but also a need to rid them￾selves of feelings of inferiority by subjecting middleman minorities to humiliation and dehumanization. These middlemen—“their wealth inexplicable, their superiority intolerable”113—are basically an ego problem among those who have been so blatantly outper￾formed. This is also consistent with the history of the countries where middleman minorities have been either accepted or bitterly
opposed.

It is in precisely those times and places where there are few others who can supply the skills of middleman minorities that they are most hated—whether it is the Koreans in today’s American black ghettos, Jews in Eastern Poland in centuries past, Chinese in Southeast Asia, Armenians in regions of the Ottoman Empire where they were the predominant entrepreneurial group,
Lebanese in West Africa, Ibos in northern Nigeria, Indians in East Africa or others in other places. Where middleman minorities have been more accepted have been places where others have had similar skills and entrepreneurial occupations, such as the
United States, Australia, Britain, and the Scandinavian countries.
It has been precisely where middleman minorities have been most needed economically that they have been most hated, while places that have been not nearly as dependent on them have been places where they have found their greatest acceptance. This does
not present a very reassuring picture of human reasonableness, but neither does the history of most middleman minorities.
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Re: American Economist Explains Why Igbos Are Envied by DispatcherLagos: 1:46pm On Jul 21, 2022
Uppercut to Afonjas

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Re: American Economist Explains Why Igbos Are Envied by iamwilliamsfx(m): 1:48pm On Jul 21, 2022
Igbos are the 12 lost tribe of ISRAEL, Note this down SIR.

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Re: American Economist Explains Why Igbos Are Envied by Shiver99: 2:08pm On Jul 21, 2022

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Re: American Economist Explains Why Igbos Are Envied by Shiver99: 2:10pm On Jul 21, 2022
Btw, Narcop, I haven't seen that forum before. Is it new?

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Re: American Economist Explains Why Igbos Are Envied by Laggafin: 2:15pm On Jul 21, 2022
So true and fact

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Re: American Economist Explains Why Igbos Are Envied by aribisala0(m): 2:27pm On Jul 21, 2022
Eboes are to Yoruba like
Ghana is to Nigeria

Always looking for attention
Very insecure
Same whining and complaining

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Re: American Economist Explains Why Igbos Are Envied by Shiver99: 11:01pm On Jul 21, 2022
aribisala0:
Eboes are to Yoruba like
Ghana is to Nigeria

Always looking for attention
Very insecure
Same whining and complaining

Aribisala0 again? Where did you see Yoruba here?

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Re: American Economist Explains Why Igbos Are Envied by r4bbit: 11:12pm On Jul 21, 2022
Wo, no time for arguments. Feel free to feed yourselfs "bobos"(lies). grin grin
Re: American Economist Explains Why Igbos Are Envied by Kalashnikov49: 11:33pm On Jul 21, 2022
grin grin grin grin grin grin grin.....................IGBOs , my oga them!! grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin

Tested race of rugged enterprenuers, that are not agbado munching miscreants from the beg beg region...spits!

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Re: American Economist Explains Why Igbos Are Envied by Omoslim26: 12:05am On Jul 22, 2022
Kalashnikov49:
grin grin grin grin grin grin grin.....................IGBOs , my oga them!! grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin

Tested race of rugged enterprenuers, that are not agbado munching miscreants from the beg beg region...spits!

There has,there is and there can never be a time when the great Igbo tribe is in this sort of hateful competition with Yoruba or any other tribe at all.
Start to mention names of Nwafos who have openly come out to write this sort of nonsense you constantly write here against Yorubas.
Igbos are Great and Blessed,we don't do senseless tribal banters.
You are not Igbo,you be bloody bororo jihadist doing the taquiya divide and rule antics wey your evil masters teach you.
Shame, disgrace and reproach is already your portion.

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Re: American Economist Explains Why Igbos Are Envied by Kalashnikov49: 1:35am On Jul 22, 2022
You be yoruba...i agree.

i am not IGBO but i love them and i dont like Yoruba...why does that affect you so so much??



Omoslim26:


There has,there is and there can never be a time when the great Igbo tribe is in this sort of hateful competition with Yoruba or any other tribe at all.
Start to mention names of Nwafos who have openly come out to write this sort of nonsense you constantly write here against Yorubas.
Igbos are Great and Blessed,we don't do senseless tribal banters.
You are not Igbo,you be bloody bororo jihadist doing the taquiya divide and rule antics wey your evil masters teach you.
Shame, disgrace and reproach is already your portion.

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Re: American Economist Explains Why Igbos Are Envied by Nobody: 4:39am On Jul 22, 2022
iamwilliamsfx:
Igbos are the 12 lost tribe of ISRAEL, Note this down SIR.

They're a lost tribe quite alright. Usually lost in their delusion.

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Re: American Economist Explains Why Igbos Are Envied by BloomingDale(f): 5:38am On Jul 22, 2022
Re: American Economist Explains Why Igbos Are Envied by Narcop: 5:38am On Jul 22, 2022
Shiver99:
Btw, Narcop, I haven't seen that forum before. Is it new?

Yeah. Very recent actually.
Re: American Economist Explains Why Igbos Are Envied by Shiver99: 5:43am On Jul 22, 2022
Narcop:


Yeah. Very recent actually.

Oh Wow. shocked

I and many other Igbos have been looking for an online board for Igbos to discuss. Unfortunately on Nairaland threads celebrating Igbos, much like this one, can at times be bogged down by a lot of tribalists.

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Re: American Economist Explains Why Igbos Are Envied by Narcop: 5:45am On Jul 22, 2022
Shiver99:


Oh Wow. shocked

I and many other Igbos have been looking for an online board for Igbos to discuss. Unfortunately on Nairaland threads celebrating Igbos, much like this one, can at times be bogged down by a lot of tribalists.

Here: https://biafraspot.com/
Re: American Economist Explains Why Igbos Are Envied by Shiver99: 5:48am On Jul 22, 2022

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Re: American Economist Explains Why Igbos Are Envied by Omoslim26: 9:42am On Jul 22, 2022
Kalashnikov49:
You be yoruba...i agree.

i am not IGBO but i love them and i dont like Yoruba...why does that affect you so so much??




Hahahaha mumu man wan desguise.
I be typical Nwafo from the country 9 clan of Imo State and I dey call you out bcus people go think se this nonsense wey you dey do na so Igbo be grin grin
If I see any fòol here doing rubbish I dey call them out directly without doing the tribal nonsense bcus it's foolishness to join fòols in their foolery.
You no fit be Igbo.
If you dare se you be Igbo you no even be Southerner I go chun out your previous post then you go tell Us which Igboman for reality dey write all those nonsense wey you dey write.
You be bororo jihadist from Niger Republic grin
Re: American Economist Explains Why Igbos Are Envied by Kalashnikov49: 10:02am On Jul 22, 2022
I DON GREE SAY I BE BORORO.... grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin

BUT I LOVE IGBOs and i want them to have BIAFRA and to excel. Why the thing dey pain you?? angry angry angry angry angry angry

This Afonja loves IGBOs to be in NIGERIA suffering with them. We will deal with you miscreant descendants of Awolowo. You hate IGBO, but you dont want them to leave abi?? They will have their Nation, but we have conquered Lagos.

IGBO will get BIAFRA...and as a BORORO i will work towards that explicitly. Thank ya!!



Omoslim26:


Hahahaha mumu man wan desguise.
I be typical Nwafo from the country 9 clan of Imo State and I dey call you out bcus people go think se this nonsense wey you dey do na so Igbo be grin grin
If I see any fòol here doing rubbish I dey call them out directly without doing the tribal nonsense bcus it's foolishness to join fòols in their foolery.
You no fit be Igbo.
If you dare se you be Igbo you no even be Southerner I go chun out your previous post then you go tell Us which Igboman for reality dey write all those nonsense wey you dey write.
You be bororo jihadist from Niger Republic grin
Re: American Economist Explains Why Igbos Are Envied by Omoslim26: 10:12am On Jul 22, 2022
Kalashnikov49:
I DON GREE SAY I BE BORORO.... grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin

BUT I LOVE IGBOs and i want them to have BIAFRA and to excel. Why the thing dey pain you?? angry angry angry angry angry angry

This Afonja loves IGBOs to be in NIGERIA suffering with them. We will deal with you miscreant descendants of Awolowo. You hate IGBO, but you dont want them to leave abi?? They will have their Nation, but we have conquered Lagos.

IGBO will get BIAFRA...and as a BORORO i will work towards that explicitly. Thank ya!!




grin grin ;Dna lie you can never love Igbo bcus as a bororo jihadist all that matters to you is kill,rape and kidnap grin grin grin you are just using your taquiya antics,that thing that you do to cause divide and rule cheesy cheesy grin
As a Nwafo I love Hausa, Yoruba, Benin, Ijaw, Igala Bcus Igbo is love, Igbo is peace grin
But your own people, hate and more hate is all they do,come into people's land rape and kill them is what they came all the way from Niger Republic to do in Nigeria.
When Ala-Igbo will want out We know how to go about it ,We will not be led by criminals claiming freedom fighters.
When Biafra will come it will never be championed by thugs, cultist and criminals claiming freedom fighters bcus God is not an author of confusion.
Stop bothering about Igbo or Hausa or Yoruba bcus u are not even Nigerian to start with grin grin
Re: American Economist Explains Why Igbos Are Envied by Kalashnikov49: 10:32am On Jul 22, 2022
No shaking ...IGBO wannabe.

I be bororo...but i want IGBO to have Biafra, so they can redefine their destiny outside this shyt-hole that we and useless yoruba spoilt because of tribalism and generational hate.

Its good riddance ..so i support their BIAFRA. They will survive excellently with their GAS reserves and grow well economically, outside useless afonja and bororo reasoning like my own.

so thank you for caring about them also. they will have their BIAFRA!!


Omoslim26:


grin grin ;Dna lie you can never love Igbo bcus as a bororo jihadist all that matters to you is kill,rape and kidnap grin grin grin you are just using your taquiya antics,that thing that you do to cause divide and rule cheesy cheesy grin
As a Nwafo I love Hausa, Yoruba, Benin, Ijaw, Igala Bcus Igbo is love, Igbo is peace grin
But your own people, hate and more hate is all they do,come into people's land rape and kill them is what they came all the way from Niger Republic to do in Nigeria.
When Ala-Igbo will want out We know how to go about it ,We will not be led by criminals claiming freedom fighters.
When Biafra will come it will never be championed by thugs, cultist and criminals claiming freedom fighters bcus God is not an author of confusion.
Stop bothering about Igbo or Hausa or Yoruba bcus u are not even Nigerian to start with grin grin
Re: American Economist Explains Why Igbos Are Envied by Omoslim26: 10:50am On Jul 22, 2022
Kalashnikov49:
No shaking ...IGBO wannabe.

I be bororo...but i want IGBO to have Biafra, so they can redefine their destiny outside this shyt-hole that we and useless yoruba spoilt because of tribalism and generational hate.

Its good riddance ..so i support their BIAFRA. They will survive excellently with their GAS reserves and grow well economically, outside useless afonja and bororo reasoning like my own.

so thank you for caring about them also. they will have their BIAFRA!!



Idiot grin you can decieve others with taquiya,you can't decieve me grin grin
You don't want anything good for Igbo as a bororo jihadist all you need to survive is kill,rape and kidnap.
When The Great Ojukwu, leader of the Eastern Region called Igbo answered,you are not Igbo so you won't understand that a Nwafo does not just follow anyhow.
Only brainwashed thugs, cultist and criminals follow the voice of criminals claiming freedom fighter,no true Nwafor stands for occultic destructive criminals tht go about cursing, threatning and killing others who do not support their scam in the name of freedom fighter.
The great Igbo tribe is fully ObiDient grin
Re: American Economist Explains Why Igbos Are Envied by Kalashnikov49: 4:31pm On Jul 22, 2022
BIAFRA is for IGBOs and 1 Nigeria is for Yoruba and us Fulani.

YOU ARE NOT GOING TO HAVE ODUDUWA REPUBLIC....we must all live together, and LET IGBO people have their BIAFRA. So that they will suffer as expected by Useless Yoruba "GUM-BODY" LIKE YOU.



Omoslim26:


Idiot grin you can decieve others with taquiya,you can't decieve me grin grin
You don't want anything good for Igbo as a bororo jihadist all you need to survive is kill,rape and kidnap.
When The Great Ojukwu, leader of the Eastern Region called Igbo answered,you are not Igbo so you won't understand that a Nwafo does not just follow anyhow.
Only brainwashed thugs, cultist and criminals follow the voice of criminals claiming freedom fighter,no true Nwafor stands for occultic destructive criminals tht go about cursing, threatning and killing others who do not support their scam in the name of freedom fighter.
The great Igbo tribe is fully ObiDient grin
Re: American Economist Explains Why Igbos Are Envied by Omoslim26: 1:03am On Jul 23, 2022
Kalashnikov49:
BIAFRA is for IGBOs and 1 Nigeria is for Yoruba and us Fulani.

YOU ARE NOT GOING TO HAVE ODUDUWA REPUBLIC....we must all live together, and LET IGBO people have their BIAFRA. So that they will suffer as expected by Useless Yoruba "GUM-BODY" LIKE YOU.




grin grin ;DGum body for where grin grin
All this bororo jihadist sef enhh grin grin
Stop worrying too much about Biafra,your own region is in a big mess,If Boko no strike today,bandit go strike or Iswap go strike,if Iswap no strike killer heardmen go strike undecided.
You get too many problems wey supposed keep your mind occupied.
We have great men in Igboland when it's time for anything to be championed in
Re: American Economist Explains Why Igbos Are Envied by Omoslim26: 1:04am On Jul 23, 2022
Kalashnikov49:
BIAFRA is for IGBOs and 1 Nigeria is for Yoruba and us Fulani.

YOU ARE NOT GOING TO HAVE ODUDUWA REPUBLIC....we must all live together, and LET IGBO people have their BIAFRA. So that they will suffer as expected by Useless Yoruba "GUM-BODY" LIKE YOU.




grin grin ;DGum body for where grin grin
All this bororo jihadist sef enhh grin grin
Stop worrying too much about Biafra,your own region is in a big mess,If Boko no strike today,bandit go strike or Iswap go strike,if Iswap no strike killer heardmen go strike undecided.
You get too many problems wey supposed keep your mind occupied.
We have great men in Igboland when it's time for anything to be championed in the region We know who we follow,no true Nwafor follows thugs and cultist and taliban wannabe criminals claiming freedom fighter.
The whole of SE is fully ObiDient.
Re: American Economist Explains Why Igbos Are Envied by Kalashnikov49: 1:21am On Jul 23, 2022
STOP FORCING IT....YOU ARE NOW REPLYING TWO TIMES ON A POST...TAKE IT EASY . OUR 1 NIGERIA IS WITHOUT IGBOS

Omoslim26:


grin grin ;DGum body for where grin grin
All this bororo jihadist sef enhh grin grin
Stop worrying too much about Biafra,your own region is in a big mess,If Boko no strike today,bandit go strike or Iswap go strike,if Iswap no strike killer heardmen go strike undecided.
You get too many problems wey supposed keep your mind occupied.
We have great men in Igboland when it's time for anything to be championed in the region We know who we follow,no true Nwafor follows thugs and cultist and taliban wannabe criminals claiming freedom fighter.
The whole of SE is fully ObiDient.
Re: American Economist Explains Why Igbos Are Envied by Omoslim26: 1:25am On Jul 23, 2022
Kalashnikov49:
STOP FORCING IT....YOU ARE NOW REPLYING TWO TIMES ON A POST...TAKE IT EASY . OUR 1 NIGERIA IS WITHOUT IGBOS


Continue to use cheap taquiya to decieve yourself grin grin
Whenever Igbo will move it can never be championed by one criminal from London and
Some group of brainwashed thugs, cultist and criminals claiming freedom fighters grin
They are on their own grin
The blessed Ala-Igbo is fully ObiDient grin grin
Re: American Economist Explains Why Igbos Are Envied by Kalashnikov49: 2:49am On Jul 23, 2022
YOU GO TRY TIRE....YOU SOUND PAINED....YOU CRY I LAUGH. grin grin grin grin grin grin

GOATS AND LIONS CANT FEED IN THE SAME ZONE...UNDERSTAND??

BE READY FOR HEAD SLAMMING TALIBAN STYLE grin grin


Omoslim26:


Continue to use cheap taquiya to decieve yourself grin grin
Whenever Igbo will move it can never be championed by one criminal from London and
Some group of brainwashed thugs, cultist and criminals claiming freedom fighters grin
They are on their own grin
The blessed Ala-Igbo is fully ObiDient grin grin

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