Do you live in the south - you fool. I just moved back to San Diego from bradenton florida. Bradenton is now a big mix of people from the north east and local. Thenew yorkers think they are so smart and everything they do is so right. They bitch about everything and don't understand why their service is slow and why youth baseball is run the way it is. (both designed to piss of northerners and teach them how things are done in the south) I will tell you a story. They most red necked inbread country son of bitch you ever met ( to quote tommy lee jones) drove 45 minutes 3 days a week to have is 5 year play ball on my son's team. all the other adults were fighting about positions and batting order and fielding positions and every other thing you could think about. None of the kids wanted to get hit by the ball -- playing catcher. So like a dumb red neck (as the northerners said) he put the tools of ignorance on his kid and let him catch. Every practice and every game. well it took me over a year to catch on. I saw his son progress far more quickly than all the other kids. By the time my son was seven he was a good hitter but a poor fielder. He was also on a different team. So I followed the red necks lead and quietly let my son catch any inning in which no other kid wanted to catch. Eventually he caught every inning. Sure he got hit by the pitching machine a few times - but now four months late my son is excelling at every eye hand task. Other parents have figured it out and now everyone wants to catch. Those dumb country sons of bitches outwit northerners almost every day. I can point out example after example. Now I am no southerner - but I also damn glad I am no longer from the Northeast either. As a group people from the Northeast are total fucking idiots. The funny thing is individually they are some of my good friends.
If a culture doesn't value an individual showing how smart they are maybe they are going to be seen as dumb... regarding blacks, in Africa, they live at the crossroads of ....... nothingness, similar situ in the US since they hunker down in ghettos so much. If you go up to the Armenia area you are at the crossroads of most of history and they gained from all directions by seeing the better technology and foods, cultures, etc from all over... which brings me to the internet. Internet hounds live at an incredible crossroad of cultures. We can learn how to's from all over the world, share our thoughts and learn better ways of thinking in the processs.... this is not to be discounted.
I think the average intelligence of Africans is better reflected in their tendency towards rediculous superstitions and inability to properly organize themselves then by a culturaly-biased IQ test. But because Europe was much the same during the middle ages I see no reason why this situation can't be fixed. An increase in caloric intake and a mandatory and well run education system could do miracles. Ghana and Botswana are current leaders when it comes Africa's modernization and I hope that other nations will follow their lead.
Staging sex myths to save Zimbabwe's girls By Steve Vickers BBC News, Makoni, eastern Zimbabwe Zimbabwe's most prominent organisation fighting child sexual abuse is confronting traditional healers to take action over the myth that having sex with a virgin can cure Aids - one reason behind the rape of young girls. In a rural area some 200km east of Harare, a play is being acted out. An HIV-positive man visits a traditional healer and is advised to have sex with a virgin in order to be cured. The reasoning is that the blood produced by raping a virgin will cleanse the virus from the infected person's blood. It is part of the Girl Child Network project and was staged at a girl's empowerment village, where rape survivors are given safe accommodation, counselling and training in life-skills. Traditional healers from all of the country's provinces recently attended a meeting here, along with chiefs, a government minister and religious leaders, where many of the girls stood up and gave accounts of the abuse that they had suffered. 'Traumatised' One was raped by her father when she was two years old. AFRICA HAVE YOUR SAY Lack of proper punishment makes rape easy. If a zero tolerance policy was against these rapists, things would calm down Gelle, Johannesburg She is now eight, and an orphan, as her father died in prison after the rape was reported by her mother, who has also died. A 14-year-old told how her uncle raped her and left her pregnant. She was thrown out of the house by her aunt and had an abortion after six months. There were complications and she has been ill ever since. "I'm traumatised," she said, in floods of tears. All of the groups represented were moved by the vivid accounts and condemned the abuse, but none admitted responsibility for encouraging sex with virgins to cure HIV. 'No medicine to cure Aids' National Traditional Healers Association secretary Alex Mashoko blamed healers not registered with his organisation Not everybody is doing it, as they were saying, but it is happening Betty Makoni Director of the Girl Child Network "We have heard about this for a long time and really, as an organisation we want to crush the people that have been doing that through the chiefs and through the government. "The government must give tough penalties on this. Those crooks don't want to come and register. "Since I have been practising traditional healing I have never done a thing like that. I have only read about it in the papers but I have never seen someone doing things like that. "I don't accept things like that. It is not good. "We as an organisation don't tell people to sleep with girls so that it can cure Aids because there is no medicine to cure Aids." Same fate Girl Child Network director Betty Makoni, felt that although no-one took responsibility for the abuse of young girls, the meeting was a "quite a step forward" in confronting the myth that virgins cure HIV. Explaining, she said: "Not everybody is doing it, as they were saying, but it is happening." Recently South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu spoke out against the rape of girls as young as nine months old in his country. It is impossible to say whether the problem is increasing or not here, but South Africa is clearly not the only affected country - many children in Zimbabwe and the rest of southern Africa have suffered the same fate. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/africa/6076758.stm Published: 2006/10/24 10:51:15 GMT © BBC MMVII
The point is to look at each individual's abilities, judge them as an individual (and not as a 'representative' of some collective group), and leave it at that. There's no good reason to divide everyone into racial groups and then measure the intellectual capabilities of one collective group vs. another. It accomplishes nothing, and nothing good can come of it.