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Originally posted by Movescamp
reply to post by CayceFan
You are entitled to your opinion. But it is a fact people who believe they are superior to others based on race are racist. Just like thinking one gender is superior is sexist. It's ignorant since science says differently. So while I respect your opinion it is different than something science can prove.
China has only allowed the genetic studies in the last few years, with a 2004 study carried out by Jilin University also finding that the mummies’ DNA had Europoid genes, further proving that the earliest settlers of Western China were not East Asians. Mixed opinions… In the preface to the 2002 book, “Ancient Corpses of Xinjiang,” written by Chinese archeologist Wang Huabing, the Chinese historian and Sanskrit specialist Ji Xianlin soundly denounced the use of the mummies by Uighur separatists as proof that Xinjiang should not belong to China. “What has stirred up the most excitement in academic circles, both in the East and the West, is the fact that the ancient corpses of “white (Caucasoid/Europid) people’ have been excavated,” Jin wrote. “However, within China a small group of ethnic separatists have taken advantage of this opportunity to stir up trouble and are acting like buffoons, (styling) themselves the descendants of these ancient “white people’ with the aim of dividing the motherland.” Further on, in an apparent swipe at the government’s lack of eagerness to acknowledge the science and publicize it to the world, Ji wrote, “a scientist may not distort facts for political reasons, religious reasons, or any other reason”. Meanwhile, Yingpan Man, a nearly perfectly preserved 2,000-year-old Caucasoid mummy, was only this month allowed to leave China for the first time, and is being displayed at the Tokyo Edo Museum. The Yingpan Man, discovered in 1995 in the region that bears his name, has been seen as the best preserved of all the undisturbed mummies that have so far been found. Yingpan Man not only had a gold foil death mask -- a Greek tradition -- covering his blonde bearded face, but also wore elaborate golden embroidered red and maroon garments with seemingly Western European designs. His nearly 2.00 meter (six-foot, six-inch) long body is the tallest of all the mummies found so far and the clothes and artifacts discovered in the surrounding tombs suggest the highest level of Caucasoid civilization in the ancient Tarim Basin region.
Originally posted by Movescamp
reply to post by CayceFan
No i don't. I know you don't know me so nice try. The women I served with in Iraq the women I in indigenous culture they could probably take a majority of the male youth of today. If you look at science studies in athletics women catching up rapidly in our culture (sprinting basketball etc). Years of social opression have caused a larger than normal difference. But yes you are right. That is different again from spouting things tha are not scientifically true. Blacks are certainly not more athletic than whites. I think you should watch the olympics and than get back to me.
Originally posted by KingKeever1611
Why are eskimos so dark skinned then? They are Semitic too by the way.
Originally posted by JohnnyCanuck
Lovely...thank you for that. Could you please present your proof?
Originally posted by KingKeever1611
Originally posted by JohnnyCanuck
Lovely...thank you for that. Could you please present your proof?
Well Canada, What other race do you think they belong too? Are they black? Nope. White? Not even close. That only leaves one, the Semitics, who most Indian and island dwelling people belong too. Asians as well. Back to their skin tone, why are they darker toned than any white person and yet live so far away from the equator for countless centuries.
This is one of many proofs that determine your geographic location does not affect your race, but only gives you a nice tan
What kind of proof are you looking for here? Want me to mail you an Eskimo for personal examination?
Originally posted by Movescamp
I don't know where you got the notion there are three racial groups....
Originally posted by JohnnyCanuck
You made a straightforward statement of fact, and I'd like to know where that fact came from.
Originally posted by Movescamp
reply to post by CayceFan
Really? Kind of ridiculous on your part. Evolution of human beings is a unique situation. It has been proven that social, as well as environmental impact has an effect on human beings. For instance the brain is physically shaped by the environment you grow up in. Sexism is asserting one sex is better than another in a discriminating way. Social situations have kept women from playing professional sports for instance until recently. The discrimination that started in childhood kept women from practicing sports in the same way as males.
Sexism also includes a general supremacy or all encompassing supremacy not specific technical details.
Men are just plain better than women is sexist. Or whites are a superior race is racist.
Saying things without any basis of truth is also a trap which leads to racism. Saying for instance people from Ghana are less intelligent that people from America cultural bias but not racist. Racism is blacks are not as smart as whites is racist. For instance the very skewed iq test that was brought up earlier noted that richer technological places have higher iqs. A member confused that with blacks are not as intelligent as whites. However the study did not say which Americans were tested or which British people were tested. They could have been black. Also proof of enviornment and the ability to understand and have practice with a test like the iq test has a massive impact on the results.
For instance you could use that test against black Americans and black people from a tribe in Africa and compare the differences in iq. You would get the Americans having a higher iq because they are used to taking those kinds of tests.
Anyhow I think perhaps you don't understand racism. You should read the history of racism it's a relatively new phenomenon , usually bias is based on religion or region rather than an arbitrary skin tone.
It appears you haven't read what I had typed. Seems to me we mostly agree.
edit on 8-1-2011 by Movescamp because: Typos