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Originally posted by clearwater
Statistically speaking, caucasians are the minority. Fewer of them than people of color.
The findings of this field have engendered significant controversy. Media opinion of the role of genetic and environmental factors in explaining individual and group differences in IQ has itself been studied (1988) and found to differ from the opinion of mainstream experts.[9] Some critics question the fairness and validity of cognitive testing and racial categorization, as well as the reliability of the studies and the motives of the authors, on both sides. This has included accusations of bias based on assumptions about the political ideals of the researchers or the funding agencies, such as the Pioneer Fund. Some critics fear the misuse of the research, question its utility, or feel that comparing the intelligence of racial groups is itself unethical. The disparity in average IQ among racial groups does not mean that all members of one group are more intelligent than all members of another, nor that ranking group averages from "high" to "low" implies a moral ranking from "good" to "bad" or an overall ranking of "superior" to "inferior".[10] The conclusion that racial groups vary in average IQ scores, and the hypothesis that a genetic component may be involved, have led to heated academic debates that have spilled over into the public sphere.
Originally posted by NumberCruncher
I dont want to Eat Halal for same reason Moslems dont want to eat Pork, thats fair enough isnt it?
I didnt start the conversation along the Minoroty lines you guys did, the IQ thing is true, but lets just pick on the ME, they have contributed virtually nothing to the modern world exept war and oil, which proves how dumb this minority group must be no ?
Prove me wrong, prove me all the wonderful things the ME has bought to the world in the last 100 years or so.
Originally posted by stumason
Originally posted by wildcat
I think they are
lying.
Care to elaborate?
Who's lying?
Originally posted by NumberCruncherProve me wrong, prove me all the wonderful things the ME has bought to the world in the last 100 years or so.
Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah - Inventor
Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah was a technological innovator whose inventions in electricity had a great impact on the development of 20th century technology. In August 1921, Sabbah traveled to the U.S. to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for one year. In 1922, he enrolled at the University of Illinois, where he earned a master's degree in engineering sciences in 1923. He was hired by the engineering laboratory of the General Electric Company (GE) at Schenectady, N.Y. in1923. It was not long before his research efforts resulted in a number of patents. However, Sabbah had signed a contract with GE whereby all his inventions became the property of the company, and so he received a reward of one dollar for each of his patented inventions. Between 1927 and 1935, Sabbah invented 52 different applications.
Gibran Khalil Gibran - Poet and Philosopher
"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." Many of us know this as a quotation from a speech made by U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1961. It is less well known that this quote appeared thirty six years earlier in Gibran's essay "The New Frontier".
Almost 70 years after his death, Gibran is still held in high regard as the most important writer to mark the transition from classic to modern Arabic literature.
Scientists
* Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah - electrical engineer
* Michael Atiyah - mathematician, Fields Medal (1966), Abel Prize (2004) (Lebanese father)
* Abdulrahim N. Chafi- Dr. Chafi is a Chemist and Civil/Environmental engineer. President of Dar Science and Engineering.
* Elias J. Corey - chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1990)
* Charles Elachi - director of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA
* Peter Medawar - immunologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine (1960) (Lebanese father)
* Alain Chikhani - one of the most famous plastic surgeon (Johns Hopkins Hospital, USA)
[edit] Entrepreneurs
* Robert Abboud - ex-chairman of First Chicago, brother of Joseph Abboud
* Assid Corban - winemaker, founder of Corbans
* Carlos Ghosn - CEO of Nissan and Renault
* Joseph Maroun Haggar - founder of Haggar Clothing Company
* Sam Hammam - owner of Cardiff City F.C.
* Rafik Hariri - Ex-prime minister-businessman assassinated 14 February 2005
* Nicolas Hayek - the 'father of Swatch'
* Carlos Slim Helu - Latin America's richest man and 3rd richest in the world
* Mario Kassar - co-founder of Carolco Pictures (Lebanese father, Italian mother)
* Jacques Nasser - ex-CEO of Ford Motors
* Paul Orfalea - founder of Kinko's
* Edmond Safra - founder of Republic Bank of New York and Banco Safra in Brazil (Jewish Lebanese)
* Elie Samaha - chairman/CEO of Franchise Pictures
* Nabil Sh'hayyed - Chairman/CEO of topweddinglinks.com
* Oussama Ziade - founder of Ptech
* Al-Waleed bin Talal - Lebanese mother, Grandson of Prime Minister Riad El Solh
* Johnny R.Saade - Lebanese businessman, founder of CMA-CGM, 3rd container shipping company in the world.
* Khalil Ghattas- Lebanese business man, Founder of GAT oil
Originally posted by DYepes
But you eat kosher food all the time Number Cruncher and you do not complain? why the double standard?
Originally posted by NumberCruncher
I stick by my Claim, Middle Easterners as the Minoroty group they are, are Dumber than the Majority and have given very little if nothing other than Oil to the World in the Last 100 years.
Prove me wrong.
Originally posted by NumberCruncher
Iranian physicist Ali Javan moved to USA in 1954, Laser was made in 1960 in USA by him, so its a USA invention not Iranian.
I wont go and check the rest cause i suspect similar results, thanks for taking the time to do that, but 1 dozen people/invention in 100 years of Humanity
i could fill an entire library of Western invention from scateboards to scuba gear from Nuclear fission to spacetravel.
This suggests that the west is either much superior intellectually or scholars in the middle East are supressed/killed or just plain dumb or to busy making Wars ?