How anyone can be so sure that the "superior" math skills of Indians (do they really have them on a general level?) are related to race instead of culture will remain a mystery to me. What enables you to rule out culture? Indians are no homogenous race btw., but the subcontinent is rather composed by quite a number of races ranging from "aryan" to people who are most closely related to Australian aboriginees...
How the buildiing of the colosseum is a proof for whatever (cultural or racial or climatic) superiority of the Romans is also very mysterious to me, I can find similar achievements elsewhere on this world. Moreover the construction of a "representative building" does exactly tell me what about the superiority of a Roman peasant in comparison to a Ghanese peasant? Couldn't such achievements be better explained by, say, a better educational system for the elites which developed because of some specific historical situation and is also a cultural thing?
And finally, I don't like people who try to tell me that I shall shut up and not state my opinion that racism is nothing but stupid blaming me to "tell people what they shall think". Racism is a primitive theory which tries to explain complex problems with a simple solution that does not allow scientific dispute. Whenever there is some difference between peoples - blame it on race, end of argument. This opinion was immune to be verified or falsified as there's no way to evaluate it - thus it is no scientific opinion according to common scientific theory.
Nowadays, we'd have the chance by genetics to evaluate racial theories, yet no link between intelligence etc. and races could be established. Until then, the theory bares every foundation and is an anthropophobic and insulting belief which should not be accepted.
How the buildiing of the colosseum is a proof for whatever (cultural or racial or climatic) superiority of the Romans is also very mysterious to me, I can find similar achievements elsewhere on this world. Moreover the construction of a "representative building" does exactly tell me what about the superiority of a Roman peasant in comparison to a Ghanese peasant? Couldn't such achievements be better explained by, say, a better educational system for the elites which developed because of some specific historical situation and is also a cultural thing?
And finally, I don't like people who try to tell me that I shall shut up and not state my opinion that racism is nothing but stupid blaming me to "tell people what they shall think". Racism is a primitive theory which tries to explain complex problems with a simple solution that does not allow scientific dispute. Whenever there is some difference between peoples - blame it on race, end of argument. This opinion was immune to be verified or falsified as there's no way to evaluate it - thus it is no scientific opinion according to common scientific theory.
Nowadays, we'd have the chance by genetics to evaluate racial theories, yet no link between intelligence etc. and races could be established. Until then, the theory bares every foundation and is an anthropophobic and insulting belief which should not be accepted.
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