"Racism"

[Dill]

(03-23-2018, 10:07 AM)Bengalzona Wrote: I'm playing catch-up in this thread, so I haven't seen the study you posted earlier. Here is a link that cites several different genetic racial studies:

https://listverse.com/2015/08/02/10-contentious-explanations-for-racial-differences/

It interesting reading. For instance, did you know that white skin is a genetic rarity, a mutation that developed over time:

But dark skin was also a genetic racial mutation:

Apparently, human beings have been changing colors over time to adapt to where they are living. Not at will, of course, but through evolution.

Perhaps more interesting to the recent discussion in here is this bit about Ashkenazi Jews:

The difference in intellect can be measured, to some degree, and does appear to exist. The reasons why are contentious and still being debated. We may never know. Sound familiar? This reminds me a lot of the discussion here about black people in sports in the U.S. It is contentious. And for various reasons, few of which have to do with hard science, people want to believe certain things. But we may never have all of the answers.

Myself, I rather like the "Karma Concept" of one group of people enslaving and/or putting down another group of people, and in the process strengthening and enhancing future offspring of the group they are trying to put down.

LOL B-zona gets us back on track.

As far as difference in intellect--there is still the matter of how we measure it. It is hard to imagine doing that in some culture/free way, just as it is hard to imagine a wholly neutral social classification of race. (The Bell Jar debate is illuminating regarding this.) It is sort of like defining what athletic ability is based upon a finite set of sports--gymnastics and wrestling, or basketball and ping pong, or curling, and distance running? I think I.Q. can be a useful measurement to predict certain types of job performance in advanced industrial societies.  But I really hesitate to jump from that to general pronouncements about which human groups are "smarter" than others in some evolutionary/universal sense.