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What is in a culture?

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q_q_:
mental and moral abilities/deficiencies have a large genetic component..
just as physical.

I read that 30% of american buddists, are secular jews. And I read that the Dalai lama has said that his best followers are jews.  Intelligent people can adapt very well.. (it's a certain form of intelligence)

Vito:

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The only pattern I see is that the countries mentioned are countries which have been oppressed by the white man.

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your being facetious here, aren't you?

muman613


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Very  :laugh:

SavetheWest:
It doesn't matter to me as much if a group can't do well on the IQ test, as it is that they don't want to kill me and/or move to my country and make me a stranger in my own land.

Rubystars:
Hunter-gatherer tribes, such as those in Africa or those in the Amazon, routinely commit infanticide as part of their culture. That's part of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle because they have no medical facilities for special needs babies, and they can only produce a limited amount of food so even completely healthy babies that come at unwanted times are killed.

There was a story I read of a young girl in the Amazon who was around 2 years old who was healthy except for a slight learning disability. The village chief declared her a non-human and refused to let anyone feed her. She was wandering around in the jungle on her own close to the village and some people tried to feed her secretly but they were putting their life at risk for it.

Many such societies have painful "rites of passage". I saw a documentary about one tribe in Africa holding down a child against his will and making cuts into his face to scarify him. It was a horrible scene. Blood was running down his face, strong men were holding him down, and he was screaming and screaming.

Yes, our society is superior and those other societies need to change.

Masha:

--- Quote ---Genetically all humans are 99.9 % the same
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Why am I not one of the finalists in the Olympics then if my DNA is 99.9% similar to that of the winners? Whay have I not invented the theory of relativity if I am so similar to Einstein?

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