Are Americans Racist?

Never heard that term before but if I take your meaning correctly I would say yes, and have been for centuries.

 

Not that europe has been content being a continent contending with a collection of countries.

 

People in general are inclined to clique. We find those most agreeable whom we agree with.

 

Is this map racist? http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IQ_by_Country.png

 

No, it makes sense that richer countries with better school systems would test better than poorer countries. There's a racist element if you choose to misconstrue that data as some kind of proof that race has anything to do with those numbers.

 

The reason they ARE the richer countries (industrialized) is because they invented more technology. The reason they have the better school systems is because they came up with the subjects in the first place.

Calculus = Isaac Newton. Biology = Darwin and others. Geology = Lyell. Physics = Newton, Einstein. Chemistry = Bohr, etc.

 

Here we go again...

 

Really? So you think Greeks are naturally better at geometry because Pythagoras was Greek? I hope you understand that's a ridiculous non sequitur.

I'm curious as to what your point actually is.

 

I wasn't really taking about Greece. More of Western Europe.

But, put it this way..... how long do you think it would have taken for the Australian Aborigines to invent the Large Hadron Collider?

I am not a racist. And certainly no Nazi. But I think white people are scared to be proud of themselves.

 

By happenstance, Africans and Eurasians diverged geographically around 100,000 years ago. Asians and Europeans around 40,000 years ago. Neanderthals had MUCH larger cranial capacities and interbred with these lighter skinned primates. The potential garnered by having larger brain weights and volumes eventually led to multiple intellectual and scientific discoveries compounding on top of each other, and resulting in the natural selection of certain humans that were much more adept at handling abstract concepts and engaging in critical thinking (IQ). I'm black and even I can admit this.

 

Why would they want to?

 

Neanderthals did not breed with homo sapiens. Homo sapiens caused the extinction of Neanderthals. All Homo sapiens evolved from Homo heidelbergensis in Africa.

And I am white and I can recognize that white people have done more in science and technology, but I never said we were superior.

I just did 4 years and you can see in prison that more often that not, it's the black guys "outsmarting" the white guys. Mainly just because they know that if it comes down to a fight, the black guy would win 99% of the time. But most people in prison are not racist anyway.

Since I'm coming across like some sort of white supremacist, I am actually not. I can say that I am actually jealous of black (and other races) genetics at times because they seem to age better and more muscle mass, etc. Plus all the girls like hip-hop these days.

I never said that Bill Gates was the epitome of human existence.

 

Why wouldn't they? To discover the secrets of the universe?

Maybe they would get tired of hunting kangaroos and want an easier life using technology. Wouldn't they like refrigeration and air-conditioning?

 

I think they are pretty content doing what they do.

 

Dude don't just parrot things you heard as a kid. Do a quick search. We did breed with Neanderthals, Europeans and Asians walking around today have somewhere around 1-4% Neanderthal DNA. http://discovermagazine.com/2013/march/14-interbreeding-neanderthals

Not to be rude but your anecdotal prison experience is not good evidence of anything and to present it to anyone as if it holds any intellectual implications is daft at best.

 

We did not breed with Neanderthals. The earliest humans in Europe, known as Cro Magnon, caused their extinction.

Source:

"The Origins of Man" by Dr. Douglas Palmer

http://www.amazon.com/Origins-Man-Douglas-Palmer/dp/1845371658/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1416742337&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Origins+of+Man+Palmer

 

That's a book from 2007. There have been recent studies which show that we STILL CARRY NEADERTHAL DNA. Would you please refute this article http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/confirmation-human-neanderthal-interbreeding

or one of the thousands of similar ones you can easily access through a google search?

 

That's all well and good, although it has zero to do with what I was responding to. Richard is making the rather asinine argument that if something is developed in an area, than the people of that area have an advantage in that particular subject. So somehow since Isaac Newton being an Englishman, somehow western Europeans naturally do better in physics at school because they come from the same continent (western part of that continent) as Newton did. If he were making the case as you are here, I probably would not have taken issue with it as I did.