Race differences

[reds4ever]

Cheers Peacemaker, i can go to bed now!!

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Peacemaker
If we look at this issue with dogs insteed of humans and look at the difference at breeds(race) most would say certian breeds of dogs are smarter than others. If this is true for dogs then why can't it be true for humans.

Differences between humans are not as great as differences between dogs.


Breeds !=race.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by reds4ever
that's it in a nutshell!

But he's wrong.

Now here's a question for you. Why are you so happy that he tried to make that ridiculous point? Why are you so happy that there's a possiblity that groups of humans might be superior or inferior?

[Peacemaker]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara


The term race doesn't really apply to dogs, since as anyone with dogs has learned, they'll happily bread with each other. Their may be some size limitations between say, Great Danes and Yorkies, but they recognize each other as dogs, and will try and breed. As I understand it, there is only one species of dog, if you exclude wild African dogs, which aren't really dogs. Dingos might constitute a seperate species of dog, but I don't know.

Closely related species can interbreed, also, like Lions and Tigers (though it requires intentional effort on out part, since they won't do it themselves) and horses and donkeys, and dogs and wolves. The distinction, as I understand it is, different races of an animal won't interbreed, but they are members of the same species.



No, it lies in the same place for humans. We will more or less happily breed with other members of our own kind, except sometimes for ideological reasons.

Hey when I was single I would happily "breed" with women of any race

[Peacemaker]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara


But he's wrong.

Now here's a question for you. Why are you so happy that he tried to make that ridiculous point? Why are you so happy that there's a possiblity that groups of humans might be superior or inferior?

Why are you so opposed to it?

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara


But he's wrong.

Now here's a question for you. Why are you so happy that he tried to make that ridiculous point? Why are you so happy that there's a possiblity that groups of humans might be superior or inferior?

not superior or inferior, DIFFERENT!!

Can't anyone get their head around this?


500 years of (admittley artificailly) breeding domestcated animals brings such diversity, but 50,000 years leaves humans practically untouched?

[Kropotkin]

Of cource there's important policial implications here. This made the idea that there is great differences big before and the opposite idea big at lest after WWII. But being against the ideas sounds a hell lot more sound to me.

So far I haven't seen anything that really proofs that different 'races' have any important differences, thus I choose to belive otherwise.

[Ramo]

are you replying to me ramo? if so i would like your last post to be linked to the post of mine (to avoid confusion) you were replying to, then, a secondary link to whichever piece of information that you took out of context.

What?
How do I link your post to mine? This would be the quote that I supposedly took "out of context."
"Aboriginies have better spatial awareness"

Or are you now going back on what you said, and saying that one "race" is no smarter than another?

[reds4ever]

jesus christ ramo! your race obviously evolved without an understanding of scarcasm you must be republican, right?

[Kropotkin]

I totally regret everything I said before. Republicans and libertarians are a inferior race!!

[reds4ever]

PS. Check up on Aboriginies, it's true!

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Peacemaker
Why are you so opposed to it?

Aside from the fact that it's utterly unproven and based on completely flawed science, the political implications of it are immense.

However, the simplest proof that nature has very little to do with differences in intelligence among humans is the fact that despite having physically smaller brains, women are just as intelligent as men.

[reds4ever]

Che, you haven't really got an answer? is that what your saying?

[Ramo]

I didn't know what you meant exactly by "spatial awareness," but I took it to mean "spatial reasoning."

So are you saying that you think there are no differences in the intelligence of the "races?"

[reds4ever]

Aboriginies remember landscapes, patterns etc, a lot better than Caucasans, perhaps because they've had to develope that trait over the last 30,000 years