Ok, race debate is fun. I have already written posts before on race, race relations, interracial dating, racial politics and all. But this post is based on the ”Scientific” findings. Read this New York Times Op-Ed on recent race debate regarding scientific data and research on race and intelligence: ”All brains are the same color” . As you can see, the debate is everlasting and set off in recent history by some books like, ”Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class structure in American Life”. Please don’t get me wrong. I do believe that intelligence (like other physical, neurological traits) has lots to do with genes of your recent forbears, especially parents and grandparents. But to lump this genetics thing on the whole race is lazy science, psychology, biology or whatever. Human beings are not animals. Human species is one species.
Race debate takes different turns in different times and countries. In Indian society dominant race claims the other races have dirty soul, in many European countries Jews were considered inferior in many ways and were hated, in most countries darker skinned people are hated or are considered inferior, in USA the emphasis has always been on Black Americans and White Americans. At the international stage, it is Individualist and free minded Western people and community loving, conformist Eastern people and their cultures.
Indeed there is some truth to cultures and why people form them. But no country’s culture has always been the same. It changes with circumstances, demographics, religions, economics and also because of the zeitgeist, i.e. trends, spirit, fads, fashions of one certain time or age. I was reading someone’s review at Amazon.com of Richard E. Nesbitt’s book ”The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently and Why” The reviewer rightly pointed out that Nesbitt’s logic that Westerns civilization (from ancient Greece times) focuses on individual freedom as opposed to Eastern one (ancient China) is a dubious one. For example, conspicuous, institutionalized, legitimized slavery existed in ancient Greece (and Roman civilization for that matter) but not in ancient China. Same could be said of American slavery of Black populace, which was not an Eastern concept in any case. So, the very existence of slavery in the Western world sent individualism to gutter or the incinerator both in the glorious ancient and the inglorious modern times.
In the New York Times article there is interesting mention of African brains being smaller in size than White brains. But this does not mean marked differences in intelligence as in animal kingdom. For example in human beings the differences between brain sizes of females (smaller) and males (larger) are much more pronounced than between Black males and White males. But women do not show any inferior intelligence than men, indeed women come out as smarter than men in many tasks and intelligence measures (power to chat and gossip included *kidding*) But if you’re feeling real scientific you may read this mammoth article on the shoddy science of brain size and intelligence in human beings, ”Sex, Race, Brains and Calipers”.
But still White supremacists may not agree. They will continue to stress that White brain is bigger than Black Brain. In that case, they may as well admit that Black penis is larger than White penis. So, Blacks still get to win in this race based blessings, right? But wait– would say the White supremacists– This is a Myth!… right? Hmmmmm…. and the debate goes on……
How did I end up on this retarded blog site?
Just like you ended up in this retarded world.