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What is in a culture?
Daleksfearme:
--- Quote from: Raulmarrio2000 on November 29, 2008, 06:45:38 PM ---A low IQ means little inteligence, but they may not be violent. I think education plays an important role. And we must make a difference between discrimination and caution. When a dangerous disease has a high prevalence among one group, authorities check everyone from that group. And this is not discrimination. It's just safety. We know that, statistically, terrorism has a very high prevalence among Muslims, so each Muslim should be investigated. Muslim orgs should be perodically inspected and controlled everywhere, and Muslim immigrants should be rejected. That's not discrimination. It would be discrimination if we rejected them arguing that they are all terrorists. Not if we just say that there is a very high chance that they are.
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I am not sure that IQ tests are a good measure of overall intelligence. The studies that I have seen on this question seem to be contradictory at best. I do think that education is a very important tool in helping people to improve their lives.
I agree that the investigation of Muslims is not a form of discrimination. They did bring it on themselves by not controlling the actions of their own members.
Rubystars:
There's a lot of biased studies about IQ tests to try to make blacks look less stupid.
Daleksfearme:
--- Quote from: Rubystars on November 29, 2008, 07:55:07 PM ---
--- Quote from: New Yorker on November 29, 2008, 07:53:01 PM ---
Race has everything to do with it. Introduce basic technology to a race of intelligent people, like the Japanese, let it perculate for 100 years, and you get modern Tokyo, leading edge technology and advancement, do the same thing in Africa, or Arabia, and you get nothing, primitives who do nothing with it, might as well hand off ideas and knowledge to chimpanzees, you'll get the same result.
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The Khoisan are still crafting spears as their most advanced technology. :laugh:
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One has to wonder if they want or need so called advanced tech. Are they family oriented, Peaceful, concerned about their environment? etc. I think that these traits are the true earmarks of an advanced culture. look at what happened at Wal Mart on Friday. People took the hinges off the doors of the store and pushed in, crushing a person to death in the haste to get a good deal on the "perfect gift". These same people were outraged when the store was closed soon after so the police could investagate. And what about Israel, where the army is hurting children and pulling down the houses of peace loving people simply because they wanted to live quietly on a hilltop?
Perhaps we are not as advanced as we think...
Rubystars:
The "people" at Wal-mart were human by legal definition only. Israel is run by insane leftists, not civilized people like those on the hilltops.
muman613:
Daleksfearme,
We are most certainly more advanced technologically than our forefathers. The question I think you are asking is if we are more advanced 'spiritually'... I agree that humanity has a long way to go to advance to the next level spiritually. But even so, I think our culture and religion is advanced beyond many of the other primative cultures.
We sure have a long way to go... But don't give up hope...
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