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nator Member (Idle past 2196 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Races of people don't have likes/dislikes. Cultural groups have likes/dislikes which are in any way useful to businesspeople.
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nator Member (Idle past 2196 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
I noticed that you didn't actually substantively address crashfrog's response to your claims. You are expressing only incredulity but are providing no good reason why we should see things your way.
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nator Member (Idle past 2196 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: ...or that Eric Clapton or Stevie Ray Vaughn can't sing the blues? ...or that Eminem or the Beastie Boys can't rap? ...or that Marian Anderson can't sing opera? ...or that Jimi Hendrix couldn't rock? ...or Chuck Barry, a black man, wasn't one of the ORIGINATORS of rock n roll?
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nator Member (Idle past 2196 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Don't worry, you can't force anyone to do anything. What I am asking for is any good reason, a fact-based, rather than opinion-based reason, to consider what you are saying as valid.
quote: Assume we can't "read meanings behind words." Be very clear, and please directly address the comments and rebuttals to your claims. Ignoring evidence that contradicts your opinion is bad form, and so is repeating your original claims without additional evidence.
quote: Really? You can discern differences in mental and spiritual aspects of races? Based upon what studies and surveys do you say this? Please provide a link to this evidence. Also, can you please list for us all of the different races on the planet and the differences in mental ability and spiritualness (?) between them?
quote: So, how would you expect a Nigerian child who is adopted by a family in Norway, to act, mentally and spiritually, according to your claims that race determines these factors?
quote: Ah, the old "nature vs. Nurture" concept. Well, please address my hypothetical scenario above.
quote: Well, all people do have melanin, skin, and teeth. Except those with albinism. They don't have any melanin. The thing is, you are not only describing the characteristics of different ethnic groups. You are making these vague, unsupported claims of "mental and spiritual" differences between as-yet-unstated racial groups. It's great to claim stuff, but now you have to show what evidence you base this claim upon.
quote: Please define "conciousness of race". "Evolution is a 'theory', just like gravity. If you don't like it, go jump off a bridge."
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nator Member (Idle past 2196 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: I couldn't find any government info about the US importing wheat from Siberia, but you are correct that wheat is cultivated in those parts of the world. However, the growing of wheat is a modern industry there. The native people were nomads, not farmers.
quote: Horses graze on the grass of the steppes. Remember that the Mongol horses are actually more like tough, hardy ponies. The Huns once ruled most of the world, you know. It was the stirrups (that they invented and everyone then copied) that made them such a formidable cavalry.
quote: Please support your statement with any kind of evidence.
quote: I do not understand, please be more clear.
quote: Please explain how technology is not part of "way of thinking" and "culture". For example, please explain how the discovery and use of gunpowder to make weapons of war did not affect the "way of thinking" and "culture" of the Chinese?
quote: Um, no it isn't. The only duty of being an American, as I see it, is to participate in the democratic process to make sure the government doesn't become too powerful.
quote: What does national pride have to do with race??
quote: The only native people here were probably nomads from mongolia that crossed a land bridge 30,000 years ago or so. Long after that, Scandinavian and European explorers and settlers arrived, and then recently, many immigrants from all over the world. Really, no people originated here. Humans originated in Africa. Much deleted due to incoherence.
quote: No, you are not talking about races. You are talking about cultures and ethnic groups.
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nator Member (Idle past 2196 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
Steelspring1, do you plan to respond to my specific questions or not?
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nator Member (Idle past 2196 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
OK, you are having a difficult time staying on topic.
This is a topic about race, and if they exist. The most imortant of my questions asked you to list for us all of the different races of the world and what physical, (but most importantly)mental and spiritual aspects are characteristic of each race on the list.
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nator Member (Idle past 2196 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Actually, I think what happened first was that we became intellectual enough to wonder where stuff comes from, where it goes, and to start to attempt to make sense of the confusing world around us. This would include trying to deal with the unique, human condition among all animals of knowing ahead of time that we are going to die, and fearing the unknown. I think that the drive to "figure stuff out", combined with the fear and confusion inspired by a difficult struggle for existence, and particularly of not knowing what happens when we die, led us to invent supernatural entities. Basically belief in the supernatural is a comfort to most people; "there is a God who loves me and a heaven to go to when I die." Religion is a form of community and also a way of imposing social control, which is another reason it would have proliferated evolutionarily. Groups are more powerful and safer than individuals. Anyway, I'm off topic here, but this is my response.
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