Do Indians Like Diversity?

Steve Sailer brings up an interesting point here, that Indians want diversity:

It strikes me that South Asians tend to think of humans the way dog breeders think of dogs: the more diversity, and the sharper the distinctions between breeds, the better. Europeans and Chinese tend to to be the opposite, without much taste for distinct breeds within their own populations. Middle Easterners are perhaps in-between Europeans and Indians.

There are of course the usual string of anti South-Asian vitriol, standard for an alt-right site.  Readers of this blog should be used to this for now!  (I’m continually curious as to what other South Asian readers of alt-right sites think when they read these comments – do they agree, or do they feel upset and offended?  Either way, how am I the only one to actually DO something about it – by encouraging Indians to be better and figuring out where the alt-right is wrong about us.  Hence, this post which seems to be my post popular post ever written…)

Here are two fascinating comments in response:

            Anon[339] • Disclaimer says:

If you ruled a diverse empire and you wanted to keep the emperorship of your line safe in perpetuity, would you prefer to homogenize the nations you rule, or keep them distinct? If, instead, your objective were to make your empire strong against rivaling neighbor nations, which would you prefer?

Hypothesis: It’s better to keep your subject nations distinct to maintain your own power, so as to make it difficult for them to unite against you due to linguistic and cultural barriers (British in India model), whereas if your objective is to be strong against foreign nations, it’s best to homogenize and eliminate internal differences and raise social capital by fostering a sense of national cohesion.

And a response here:

            Almost Missouri says:

@Anon

I agree with your hypothesis in the abstract. In actual cases, it would depend who is in your empire and who “you” are. 

To use the dog breeding metaphor, you may have some very high quality breeds within your empire, perhaps even your own breed (after all, your breed became the rulers somehow, right?). Why not spread those hardy, healthy, hale, handsome, hard-working, highbrow genes around a bit? Everyone could use a little ruling class in them. Become a race of kings indeed! 

Conversely, do you really want the sullen, slow, surly, sickly, stupid, spongers reproducing? Maybe it’s better for everyone if they quietly go extinct. 

Dilemma: if the H’s breed with the S’s, does that raise the S’s or lower the H’s? Hypothetical answer: since eggs are expensive and sperm is cheap, it’s a net benefit if the H men breed with the S women, so long as it doesn’t detract from the H men breeding with the H women. Conversely, it is a net liability if the H women breed with S men, especially since it probably won’t even prevent the S men breeding with other S women. 

So, what would be the social implications of all this? Hmmm. Let me think. Hmmm. … It would seem like this is the polar opposite of our current—BZZZZRRRP »»CRIMESTOP«« 

Well gee, I just can’t come up with anything, since everyone is so equal at everything everywhere all the time (except of course our diversitarian overlords who are more equal than others).

Previous rulers of India probably made a mistake in restricting all breeding between caste lines.  If they allowed intelligent men to breed with intelligent women, but prevented intelligent women from breeding with intelligent men, it could have raised India’s IQ over hundreds of years.  Once the British and Mughals came though, the diversity probably facilitated divide and rule.  

India’s linguistic diversity is simply a consequence of India being a relatively large land area in which the dominant political entity failed to maintain control long enough to integrate everyone to the degree that a national identity was formed (another widely read post).
Religious diversity?  The result of Islamic invasions and relative openness to Christianity.  I don’t really count Sikhs and Jains as adding to religious diversity since both are pretty compatible with Hinduism.  

But the caste diversity?  That is something pretty unique , and genetic differences between castes in the same village have been proven!  Was the lack of integration an own goal by preventing the high IQ genes from spreading through the population?  Or, was it the only was to preserve intelligence without it getting diluted in a sea of native dullards? 
Either way, I agree with the first commenter.  Too much diversity makes governing difficult and reduces social trust.  

As I wrote on my comment, it’s still baffling:

According to what Steve and Anatoly Karlin have wrote, Indians are wide readers of HBD articles.  And yet, they tend to be the most vociferous leftists propagating victim mentality!  I have yet to meet a SINGLE Indian – in the US, or the West, that is open to the idea of discussing racial differences in IQ.  Even on Unz articles related to Indians, Indian commenters tend to ignore the IQ evidence.  In addition, there has been nearly zero pushback from Indian upper castes against caste reservations.  

This hasn't always been the case.  Hundreds of years ago and even during British rule, Indians seem to have accepted caste as normal and even intuitively understood the genetic rationale for it hundreds of years ago.  

Now, behind closed doors, they realize intuitively that not all Indians are the same but they are not willing to cross the red line and talk about genetic differences.  In the decades right before independence, something clicked and influential Indians completely rejected the possibility of IQ and personality differences between castes, even though eugenics and racial differences in IQ were widely accepted in the West prior to WW2.  Could it be that in order to morally argue for India’s independence by claiming that all human are equal, Indians were forced to reject the underlying rationale for the caste system?  And if so, with the threat of British re-colonization now non-existent, could diversity-curious Indians rediscover their old intuitions about caste?