Super Nova wrote
What you are describing are traits and yes, we have selected individuals who have a survival advantage in different climates and environments. Straight Darwinism. However, these traits are minor variations.
Thank you for your intelligent contribution to this debate. You are setting an example for intellectually challenged people like "Aussie", "John Smith", and "Nom de Plume".
These "minor variations" which you call "traits" are hardly "minor" if they give identifiable groups of people a survival advantage over other groups of people within particular environments, in which those groups evolved. If one group of people evolved into an environment where a proneness to violence gives them an advantage over groups of people who are more prone to be placid, then the placid group may well be wiped out through violence, and the violent group will become the norm in that environment. Very violent societies and communities do exist, and they seem to have a factor in both skin colour, primitive tribalism, and low group intellect. The problem arises when such people immigrate into advanced civilisations which require a certain level of intelligence to thrive, as well as laws proscribing the almost medieval standards of male honour which mandate a violent response to any threat to self esteem in these people.
Super nova
I agree Humans look different because they are different. Except for genetic twins, every human is different. “Races of human beings look different because they are different. They have to be “ So you point on difference is mute.
How is it "mute" to point out that groups of human beings must be different because each group evolved to have an advantage in widely differing environments? Does this fact not reinforce the idea that races must therefore be different?
Super Nova wrote
“Humans living in cold climates …” I point to the news today of Climber Kenton Cool reaches Everest summit for 16th time. A white guy from England. While a local Kami Rita Sherpa, a Nepalese climber, has scaled Everest 26 times, this white guy is just a good and adapted for this near impossible feat for a non-local, based on your argument.
I contend that the Sherpa and white guys are the same and with conditioning. While to Sherpa’s have an advantage of some traits best suited for their environment and since they grew up there are also well conditioned to the high altitude environment, this trait can be acquired through training or even be generically available in some non-Sherpa people. That is, humans have traits that are not dominant in their genes in some of what you call races.
But groups of people evolved within particular environments to give that group an advantage within the environment from which it evolved. Just because individuals from other groups and dissimilar environments may exhibit similar "traits" does not mean that these traits are minor, and so insignificant that they mean very little. African people are renowned as the best long distance runners and they are now dominating Olympic level sporting events involving running, especially long distance running. The fact that there are a tiny minority of white people who are just as good, does not diminish the fact that black Africans can be characterised as a group of great runners and poor swimmers. However, people in advanced societies do not run down game on savannas so whatever natural traits that African people have in Africa are not characteristics that will ensure economic success in Europe, the USA, or Australia.
Super Nova wrote
Your logic assumes western civilization and therefore is wrong.
Excuse me? I do not even know what you mean by that statement?
Super Nova wrote
Civilisation first arose in Iraq and spread to the west. China evolved it’s civilization independent of the middle east. The South American and Inca empires arose completely independent of Europe and Asia.
As I understand ancient history, civilisation arose in both China and Mesopotamia at roughly the same time. And surprise, surprise, the Chinese are a smart race. The Arabs should be smart, but they were conquered by a swarm of barbarian caravan raiders who's absolutist, and very violent warrior religion, justified violence against people who were not members of their group. The civilisation which resulted seems to give a breeding advantage to very violent men, while persecuting scientific thought. Unsurprisingly, this religious civilisation failed, is noted for it's violent culture, and Arabs are not noted for their brains, or their success in Nobel Prize Science awards. And breeding with your cousins for generations does not do your genome much good.
Super Nova wrote
Today South America and Mexico is a basket case. Not because of the indigenous people who had a huge and complex set of civilizations but because Europeans went there, dismantled their society, kills 90% of the population with new diseases and imported people from around the world.
The civilisations which arose in South America were incredibly violent for many generations. They were civilisations which even justified mass human sacrifice. Such civilisations may be on the way to creating higher IQ levels than groups of people at the primary stage of human development, but generations of disporting themselves in mass human sacrifice can, and apparently did, evolve a race that is extremely violent.
The coming of the Spanish and Portuguese at least stopped mass human sacrifice and I would say their cultures were a real improvement on the native civilisation. Your premise seems to suggest that it was imported people who made South America violent? I strongly disagree there. The Spanish and Portuguese were no slouches when it came to violence, but I claim that the importation of Europeans into south American society was beneficial to not just limiting violence, but for the economic well being of all South Americans. It also improved their group IQ. Even today, it is the families of the early colonisers who dominate commerce and often politics in these countries. Things went back pretty much to normal again when the south American natives chucked their colonial masters out.
To give an idea of just how violent South Americans are, compare homicide rates.
Australia's homicide rate is 1.8 per 100,000. The USA is 9.8 per100,000, and most of that is caused by African blacks. But Mexico's official homicide rate is 30 per 100,000, and that is believed to be an understatement. Let me ask you a question. Do you think it is a good idea to allow South American people to immigrate to Australia? Joe Biden and the Democrats think it is a great idea to allow south Americans to swarm over the USA's borders. Unsurprisingly, the US crime rates are skyrocketing.
Super Nova wrote
You cannot say the Chinese or Japanese are dumber than westerners. They were ahead of the west since the fall of Rome. I would say they look the most different to westerners.
I never said they were. I said that the smartest race in the world were the Jews, followed by the Asians, followed by the whites, then the Hispanics, then the dysfunctional races such as Africans, Pacific Islanders, and aboriginals.
Super Nova wrote
I assume you have done and IQ test and know that if you have never encountered cognitive reasoning tests before or have not had any education you will not do as well as someone who is just as smart at the base level. You can practice to a small degree worth 10 points if you have encountered them before.
You are implying that IQ tests are inaccurate. Cognitive metricians claim the exact opposite and such tests are considered so accurate that they are used by industry, universities, and the US military, to asses possible candidates. The US militaries cut off point for IQ is 83. If a possible recruit has an IQ lower than 83, then the US military does not consider that person capable of being able to cope with any task that the military can give them. This is about 10% of the population of the USA. No prizes for guessing which races the below 83 cohort largely come from?
Super Nova wrote
There is no evidence to support this claim. Please provide. This is just an assertion on your part.
As your BELIEF that all races are equal is just an assertion on your part.
Anyhoo, no wuckers. "The Bell Curve", the 1994 book by psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein and political scientist Charles Murray. Could I also add that there are two competing racist theories that explain why some groups are dysfunctional. The most popular one is "blame the white guy" that is extant among people with leftist and/or Humanitarian views. Which is clearly racist. The other is simply based upon facts and reasonable deductions. And that is, that these groups are unintelligent and prone to violence.
Super Nova wrote
This supports my claim that is societal and socio-economic that drives the different. I would like to see the link and source of said statistics.
The Bell Curve. It is a scientific book written by scientists.
Super Nova wrote
Most sociologists, geneticists and psychologists reject the notion of racial differences in intelligence, pointing out that economic and social factors clearly influence IQ test scores.
Sociologists would, because most of them are public servants who are often social workers who have a vested interest in maintaining the lie. Exactly what geneticists think is unknown because in the USA, the NAACP lobbied the Federal government successfully to prevent any funding of any geneticist who wanted to investigate any links between genetics and crime.
Nobel Laureate, Director of the Human Genome Project, and co discoverer of the Double Helix in DNA, James Watson, was sacked from his job, tossed out of his university, and had his honours removed, for having the temerity to say that African people were not intelligent. Gee willackers, Super Nova. If a geneticist of the stature of James Watson can get well and truly screwed by the Establishment for saying something politically incorrect, you can hardly blame other geneticists for keeping their mouths shut, can you? At least Watson was not paraded before the Pope like Galileo, and shown the instruments of torture. But the world has not advanced much when it comes to our most eminent scientists saying what the people in power do not want to hear.
Super Nova wrote
I would be interested to see where the money is spent. I bet it costs more to go to remote communities, build new infrastructure and get these kids up to speed based on their education disadvantages. That stat doesn’t mean they are dumber.
If two thirds of the NT education budget is spent upon one third of the students for a 90% failure rate in NAPLAN, then I would say that is a very strong indicator that they are dumber.
Super Nova wrote
Money needs to be spent wisely. If the parents don’t understand the benefits of education and their local society doesn’t, only a few will make it out, just like the ghettos in the US.
Parents who do not understand the benefits of education are pretty dumb, and they have dumb kids. They live in dumb communities where the white politicians have to bribe the parents with increased welfare to make sure their kids go to school. The truancy rate among aboriginal kids is so astronomical that the government has to hire drivers in aboriginal communities to drive around and pick the kids up and make them go to school. When the kids get to school, the teachers have to feed them because the kid's parents are too dumb and lazy to do the job. The parents spend all their money on alcohol and ciggies. And all that without even mentioning that all remote aboriginal communities go on a three day drinking binge whenever the fortnightly welfare cheques roll in, where people are stabbed, bashed, and raped, and publically supplied houses are burned to the ground. It is where there are 26 year old grandmothers, and children as young as six are routinely screened for Gonorrhoea.
How you think that these people have the same intelligence as the everybody else is beyond me?
Super Nova wrote
Could it be that the lower IQ people are having more babies therefore lowing the IQ average. Note that genius’ are not necessarily from high IQ parents. That is a generic change or event that makes them different.
At least you are acknowledging that some people have high IQ and some have low IQ. I think that is a start. And yes, people today with low IQ have a birth rate differential with people with high IQ. This is especially true of high IQ women who are more career oriented and are hardly breeding at all. This will not end well for our civilisation. But one thing is for certain, importing low IQ people with a high birth rate into our advanced civilisation who are genetically prone to violent behaviour is going to greatly exacerbate the problem. I could say that all western countries will some day resemble Detroit. The only difference is that in the USA, white people can still flee from black people if they have the money to move somewhere else. But with dysfunctional minorities pouring into white societies all over the globe, where are the white people in those countries going to eventually flee too next? Antarctica?
Super Nova wrote
I think your argument is incorrect as you do not consider private schools where all have similar socio-economic advantages form all races and see there is little to no difference.
I live in Dubai, I see dumb people of all races but in particular the private schools of full of normal/smart kids from all races. Those who are poorly educated are doing slave labour work but if they have their kids here, the kids achieve at school. I don’t know any Abos here though.
I can't speak for Dubai, but here in Australia smart people are successful people who know the value of education and if they can afford it, they send their kids to private schools where they can be educated and be kept away from the dysfunctional minority kids who disrupt classes, and are an ongoing behavioural problem. As a matter of fact, a funny thing happened in my home town of Sydney. It was found that those well off white people who loved to virtue signal, and who wholeheartedly supported Multiculturalism, were the very same ones most likely to send their kids to a private school as far away from the dysfunctional ethnicities they championed, as possible.
In Sydney, six public schools in the "troubled" (read Muslim) areas of Sydney are so violence plagued with teachers being threatened by pupils and their parents, that security guards are permanently present at the schools during the school day.. The NSW education Department refuses to name these schools, because they believe in Multiculturalism and "everyone is equal", and the existence of these schools, and the ethnicity and religion of their students, are hardly good advertisements for that sort of thinking.
Super Nova wrote
Smarter maybe but you also need to have an opportunity and the will. If you have no hope it is hard to fight your way out. Few get the opportunity even if smart. They may use their smarts to climb to the top of the gang. I have been to the US and have spoken to many black guys. The society is so full racist barriers a black person has to be twice as good any a white person to even get a look-in. In large corporations this is changing but on the streets it is changing slowly. This does not support your argument.
Smart people are usually upwardly mobile. The "opportunity" is that you go to a public school with other races, and you behave, and you study, and you do your homework, and you get good marks. Many Vietnamese peasants came to Australia after the Vietnam War with just the clothes on their backs. They got menial jobs, worked hard, and their kids went to school and did very well. This is common among all Asian immigrants to western countries. How is it that Asians can start at the bottom and do well? But some ethnicities, the vast majority of them simply form a crime prone and welfare dependent underclass every time? Another piece of the puzzle reinforcing the idea that races have different levels of intelligence?
Irrelevant. Barack Obama got a Nobel Prize six days after becoming the President of the USA. For no other reason than because he was half black and a President. That clearly displays how Nobel prizes are awarded for political and ideological reasons. If Arabs are too dumb to ever get a Nobel Prize for Science, well, you give one or two of them a prize for "literature", don't you? Have to be "inclusive", don't we?
Super Nova wrote
None for science.
Thank you. Says it all.
Super Nova wrote
But last century we didn’t have black people doing science for most of it. These people clearly had a chance given to them. Black people have received awards in three of six award categories: twelve in Peace (70.6% of the black recipients), four in Literature (23.5%), and one in Economics (5.9%). Black scientists, engineers, and inventors have made important contributions to society.
There are smart black people, and there are smart people in all races. But the proportions of very low IQ, low IQ, average IQ, above average iQ, and high IQ, are not in the same proportions between different races. The "Bell curves" are displaced. What this means is, that some races and ethnicities are smarter than others, and some are dumber than others. And it is not too hard to figure out whom they are. The same ethnicities are dysfunctional within their own native societies and they are members of failed states. When they immigrate to western countries they simply do not have the intelligence to be functional, and simply become an underclass, every time.
Super Nova wrote
Your logic never considers their social and community disadvantages. If you are poor, uneducated and in a drug fu..ked hood, your chances are less than average.
And you can not make the connection that those poor, uneducated, drug fucked "hoods" are always composed of the same crime and welfare prone ethnicities? I lived through a period of history where Asian countries were just as poor as Muslim, South American, and African countries. But now the Asians are rocketing ahead and even beating the Europeans at our own game. Why? Because the Asians are smart. But the dysfunctional countries will always be poor no matter how much foreign aid or UN Aid is poured into their black hole economies.
Super Nova wrote
In general I do not see any strong argument and not facts only opinion to support your argument.
Well, you are not looking very hard.
Super Nova wrote
I am happy to be enlightened but so far your logic I find flawed.
Smart people do well and dumb people do not. Most people would agree with that. How is that logic "flawed?"
Super Nova wrote
There is merit in accepting there are differences. To generalize those differences are bad or lead to lower IQs is wrong. It is not a race issue, that is, that they have an inferior makeup. It is driven by socio-economic difference, lack of education and reduced opportunity.
You did not answer my crucial question that I gave to you. I can learn more about my opponent from the questions he or she dodges, than from what they say. Here it is again, and please do not dodge it this time.
If 93%-97% of incarcerated inmates in jail in numerous countries with very different cultures are males, compared to females, is this caused by sexist discrimination against males? Lack of opportunity between males and females? 'Unconscious bias" by females against males? Females are better educated? Females have more "hope'? Females have better "socio-economic differences"? Or females have better nutrition?
Or do you see a much more logical explanation that makes sense? Males are genetically more violent than females.