That’s … rather broad. Can you point to some specific thing indicating that the Khmer Rouge did what they did for reasons that resemble the ones you described?
the way the Chinese become market dominant in every south-east Asian country that acquires a Chinese minority
Thank you for alerting me to an interesting phenomenon of which I was not previously aware. On the face of it there are other explanations besides racial superiority; for instance, different social traditions can make one group succeed “against” another without anyone being better than anyone else (example: consider a toy model in which people have prisoner’s-dilemma-type interactions; one group, the “natives”, plays always cooperate and does very nicely until another group, the “immigrants”, comes along and plays cooperate with other immigrants, defect against natives and thereby outcompetes the natives by being slightly meaner and slightly more prejudiced). Is there an obvious reason why the racial-superiority explanation should be preferred?
That’s … rather broad. Can you point to some specific thing indicating that the Khmer Rouge did what they did for reasons that resemble the ones you described?
Thank you for alerting me to an interesting phenomenon of which I was not previously aware. On the face of it there are other explanations besides racial superiority; for instance, different social traditions can make one group succeed “against” another without anyone being better than anyone else (example: consider a toy model in which people have prisoner’s-dilemma-type interactions; one group, the “natives”, plays always cooperate and does very nicely until another group, the “immigrants”, comes along and plays cooperate with other immigrants, defect against natives and thereby outcompetes the natives by being slightly meaner and slightly more prejudiced). Is there an obvious reason why the racial-superiority explanation should be preferred?
We do know the average IQs of the populations involved.