Not even. It's just having the basic components of a culture that promotes good behavior rather than bad behavior. You can have an IQ of 80 and still be relatively successful if you come up in a good family and learn good values and decide to work hard rather than take shortcuts and blame others for all your problems while taking no responsibility for your actions. It's not even a race thing.
Pre-unification East Germany's culture differed dramatically West Germany's as does current day North Korea's and South Korea's or Hong Kong and China.
Yeah it's called a 20 IQ average gap.
Not even. It's just having the basic components of a culture that promotes good behavior rather than bad behavior. You can have an IQ of 80 and still be relatively successful if you come up in a good family and learn good values and decide to work hard rather than take shortcuts and blame others for all your problems while taking no responsibility for your actions. It's not even a race thing.
An individual can. A society cannot.
It absolutely is. Culture is downstream from DNA, not the other way around.
It is no accident that all the functioning cultures on this planet have certain things in common.
IQ matters, but it's not everything.
Pre-unification East Germany's culture differed dramatically West Germany's as does current day North Korea's and South Korea's or Hong Kong and China.
Culture isn't in our DNA. We learn it.