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Racism in South East Asia
I'm a mistake - legalize abortion!:
--- Quote from: sabbath_92 on September 24, 2010, 01:48:59 pm ---[SPOILER][/SPOILER]
Kin doesn't equal to race. It means looking out for your own, and it doesn't always have to be for people of your own ethnicity.
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Read the whole post before making assumptions.
--- Quote from: I'm a mistake - legalize abortion! on September 23, 2010, 05:32:49 pm ---
Selfish gene - serving their own interests. Sacrificing themselves to protect the lives of its kin- "Kin selection"
Equals to Racism on a smaller scale.
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Context my friend, context.
I'm a mistake - legalize abortion!:
--- Quote from: sabbath_92 on September 24, 2010, 01:48:59 pm ---
Ethnicity maybe one of the categories but you can't isolate it as the only way in which the 'selfish gene' works.
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Ethnicity is the whole point here. Do you think we are discussing marshmallows here?
I'm a mistake - legalize abortion!:
--- Quote from: sabbath_92 on September 26, 2010, 06:16:19 pm ---This is rubbish because there are mistakes in your sources and your pseudo-intellectualism is laughable.
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Who's who.
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--- Quote from: sabbath_92 on September 24, 2010, 01:48:59 pm --- I suggest you read a book that wasn't written during the time Darwin was around as many advances has been made.
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"The selfish gene" was written in darwins time?!! Nobel prize for you. 8)"
I'm a mistake - legalize abortion!:
--- Quote from: sabbath_92 on September 26, 2010, 06:16:19 pm --- There is 99.5% similarity in the genetic structure between you and your, say, friend you are not related to,
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I mean there is 0.5% DIFFERENCE between you and your kins or 2-4% DIFFERENCE between you and a chimpanzee or 10 % DIFFERENCE between you and a cat or 30-50% between you and a banana and not the other way around. Get it?
Again,
--- Quote from: sabbath_92 on September 26, 2010, 06:16:19 pm ---There is 99.5% similarity in the genetic structure between you and your, say, friend you are not related to, and this doesn't prove anything.
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--- Quote from: sabbath_92 on September 22, 2010, 10:34:46 am ---There is no biological factor behind racism. Yes, you might suggest that it's genetic (or, more properly, evolutionary) in that it was of benefit to the survival of early tribal 'proto-humans' to be instinctively distrustful of creatures who were significantly different from them, but there hasn't been ANY biological evidence that different races of human beings exist today.
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--- Quote from: sabbath_92 on September 22, 2010, 10:34:46 am --- Of course you get stereotypes arising out cultures, appearance etc, but in the genetic level there aren't much differences from a person of African or Asian descent.
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Thus you're wrong. It proves something, which goes -
--- Quote from: sabbath_92 on September 26, 2010, 06:16:19 pm ---Your pseudo-intellectualism is laughable. There are still advancements being made regarding the topic and the fact that you think you understand all of it is nothing but ignorance.
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QED.
Funny thing that the problem didn't even require me to do anything at all. You just proved it all by yourself.
I'm a mistake - legalize abortion!:
--- Quote from: astarmathsandphysics on September 25, 2010, 10:50:45 pm ---What about social darwinism?
This has a lot to do with race.
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Again, social darwinism has lots of problems with it. It tends to suggest that there is a superior race. Or "caucasians" are naturally better than other races. Or in case of nazis who promoted this idea by replacing it with "Aryans". That's where all the problem comes from. And that's why most of the people are inclined towards not accepting the reality of racism.
People's line of thinking -
“If there really are different racial groups, then one must be The Master Race, which means -- oh my God – that Hitler Was Right! Therefore, we must promote whatever ideas most confuse the public about race. Otherwise, they will learn the horrible truth and they'll all vote Nazi.” Ignorance is bad in this case.
Off course, there are different racial groups. And of course their members tend to inherit certain different genes, on average, than the members of other racial groups.
And that means racial groups will differ, on average, in various innate capabilities. But that also means that no group can be supreme at all jobs. To be excellent at one skill frequently implies being worse at something else. So, there can't be a Master Race.
Any person who watches sports can clearly tell this. Men of West African descent monopolize the Olympic 100m dash, but their explosive musculature, which is so helpful in sprinting, weighs them down in distance running, where they are also-rans.
Similarly, there are far more Samoans in NFL than Chinese, simply because Samoans tend to be much, much bigger. But precisely because Samoans are so huge, they'll never do as well as the Chinese in gymnastics.
Similarly,South Americans and Europeans dominate the european football leagues. The number of Asians ib those leagues is handful.I think any sane person who watches sports will agree with this.
But people tend to close their eyes from the truth. Because they believe in "equality". ahem.
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