A person with a decent enough IQ of 85 who grows up in America is able to experience the American education system where they can usually learn to read and write English. They have little appreciation for what it means to grow up in a small African village, speaking a tribal language that lacks vocabulary for math, science, technology, ethics and law.
Most westerners also don’t appreciate what it means to be in a workplace where most of the other people present are sub-literate and can neither read nor write English or their own tribal language.
If your brain is the hardware then the language you learn is the software for cognition. People in Africa are not just lacking the hardware (IQ), many of them are lacking the software for cognition. This lack of cognition doesn’t just relate to academic abilities, it is also related to a persons’s ability to describe, support and develop high trust social relationships outside the tribe. That’s a serious problem.
Most Americans have a kind of reverse Dunning-Kruger. They don’t understand how good they really have it in terms of language, economic environment and education.
A person with a decent enough IQ of 85 who grows up in America is able to experience the American education system where they can usually learn to read and write English. They have little appreciation for what it means to grow up in a small village, speaking a tribal language that lacks vocabulary for math, science, technology, ethics and law.
Most westerners also don’t appreciate what it means to be in a workplace where most of the other people present are sub-literate and can neither read nor write English or their own tribal language.
If your brain is the hardware then the language you learn is the software for cognition. People in Africa are not just lacking the hardware (IQ), many of them are lacking the software for cognition. This lack of cognition doesn’t just relate to academic abilities, it is also related to a persons’s ability to describe, support and develop high trust social relationships outside the tribe. That’s a serious problem.
Most Americans have a kind of reverse Dunning-Kruger. They don’t understand how good they really have it in terms of language, economic environment and education.