What are the mental qualities of the white West?

LA to Jeff in England:

I finally got my DSL working again, so now I can check out YouTube videos you send me.

The Indians at AT&T tech support had me running all over the place. They thought I needed to re-install my software. The problem turned out to be something very simple, as I suspected all along. As I think was discussed previously at VFR, the problem with the outsourcing of tech and customer support is not just that it’s being outsourced to India. It’s that the outsourcing companies are cutting costs by hiring low-skill, low-IQ people in India instead of higher-skill Indians. The incompetence of both Dell and AT&T tech and customer support is horrendous.

Jeff replies:

I suspect it’s not low IQ; rather it is their inflexibility of mind which irritates me. They go by the book and don’t seem to think for themselves in any sort of imaginative way. Whites seem to have the most flexible and most imaginative thinking. In addition they almost seem to have a “searching” gene. Plus the best humour as well.

However, possibly even worse than the Indians and other Asians for inflexible thinking (and lack of humour) are the (white) Germans. It’s no coincidence that the Japanese and Germans both blew their chance for victory in World War II. Their military efforts are marked by inflexible and unimaginative thinking.

LA replies:

True, Americans have the best sense of humor.

Some people make a big deal about race superiority.

But the superiority that really matters is—humor superiority!

A person who believes in the humor superiority of his own group is … a humorist. However, liberals consider this attitude a great problem for society and are passing anti-humorism legislation.

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M. Jose writes:

Jeff wrote: “It’s no coincidence that the Japanese and Germans both blew their chance for victory in World War II. Their military efforts are marked by inflexible and unimaginative thinking.”

I was under the impression that the Germans encouraged the use of imagination in war tactics—that was the reason that man-for-man their army was so effective (they were beaten to a great extent by the Soviet Union’s sheer mass and its tank superiority). As I recall, they were the ones who invented “third-generation warfare,” which relied on letting individual commanders determine how to achieve a mission rather than a centrally controlled plan to concentrate firepower against an enemy (i.e. second-generation warfare, which we have been using until maybe the recent Iraq and Afghanistan wars).

James P. writes:

With respect to Indian tech support, my recent dealings with them lead me to believe that the people on the other end don’t really speak English at all. They read from a script, and they can’t deviate from it. When you ask them questions, they robotically repeat previous lines from the script. They do not react as a person who truly speaks and understands the language would, i.e. they are not truly capable of interacting with another speaker.

LA replies:

I think that’s right. We think at first that we’re dealing with another human being, but we’re not. We’re dealing with a scripted robot.

Think of the implications of that. The most successful computer company in the world, renowned for its tech support, transferred its tech support functions to scripted robots.

Jeff in England replies:

I’m not taking this particular blog entry too seriously and my critic is possibly right about German tactics during the war. I do know that German thinking is inflexible in general and without much humour for sure!

In addition, I think that English humour, which includes far more irony than American humour, is at the top of the league.

Alan Levine writes:

I was not impressed by the suggestions that Indians lack humor. That is not my experience. Even Indian politicians seem to have a sense of humor. Recall Nehru’s anti-American comment ” Americans are the most hysterical people in the world—except for Bengalis” and the Indian war communique of 1962 which responded to the rumor that the bungling Indian commander had been captured by the Chinese “We regret to have to announce that the report that the General has been captured by the enemy is untrue.”

LA replies:

I don’t think it was said that Indians lack humor. It was said that Americans (and English) have a good sense of humor.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at November 10, 2007 09:06 AM | Send