Adding to Mindysan33’s post, there doesn’t seem to be any attempt to explain why this would be true nor a way to reliably peg a currently-not-on-the-chart group of people on the chart without talking to Lewis first. This is warmed over and chartified bigotry. Not an explanation of anything.
A dispassionate examination of my own country (good ole US of A
) shows how wrong it is on even the “truly flattering” end. How likely is it to be extremely wrong on the other ends? So wrong I don’t have a witty remark for it.
The fact that it’s been framed as a way of making sure people are happy about it when we tell them our plans for their future adds colonialism and imperialism to the orientalism.