Races Aren't Superior But Cultures Are

So, what is this component of black culture which predisposes them to violence?

 

No, a man who behaves in the way you suggest does so because socialization and social norms of what constitutes acceptable behaviour have demonstrated that it is the best way to get along with his fellow man. Nothing to do with 'gods', coincidence with religious tracts aside.

 

Wow! Very nice post. 1/8 Iroquois here, and I think the same.....thank God for the white man. Of course I'm biased due to being mostly white. Still, reason and truth should be every mans rule. Again, nice post.

 

Salt or sweet?

 

salt, so the haters can use it to rub their wounds....

 

Who said anything about predisposition?

 

Most of the dating comes from a place called lake Mungo. A body was found initially dated to 25,000 years. After reworking the find most are now comfortable with around 40,000. The body had been cremated so carbon 14 played a major role in the dating. Though going back that far the plus or minus factor could be measured in thousands of years.

 

So what is it in black culture that promotes this and what is it in the media culture that promotes ignoring it?

Widespread Memorial Day Black Violence Ignored by National Media

 

sure but it's still technology based, just because our quality of life may be higher doesnt mean our culture is superior

I think the quality of life in canada is better than in the USA but I can't say my culture is superior to american culture, it's just different...

 

On page 23 I posted some horrifying information on the Aboriginals who are actually worse than New Guinea. And if your best response is "morality is relative" then it's a lame one. In any event, the intervention of Western Society is the only thing that stops this bloody, macabre circle.

 

To the extent that cultures promote orderly reform and therefore the creation and application of technology they can be considered superior.

If Canada exceeded the USA on a range of measures you would indeed be able to say your culture is superior.

 

I say they are subjective because we have different standards. Yet we have done terrible things ourselves even worse IMO.

Yet because we call it war it is ok? A large part of that were women and children, so who am I to judge a primitive culture?

 

That is why I went with the 40,000. I have seen the 60,000 in several places however. This link provides a timeline I find unbelievable will have to look deeper into it later. Take a look and give me your opinion please.
http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/history/australian-aboriginal-history-timeline

 

Who are you to judge a primitive culture? A thinking, intelligent human being, that's what you are. You're certainly more than willing to criticize Western civilization. Moreover you're confusing the United States with Western Civilization which, because of the world wars, came up with the Geneva Convention rules of war, the first time ever there was an international binding treaty that set limits on what tactics may be used when hostilities start. This again is an indicator of what a superior culture and civilization does. The U.S. dropping an atomic bomb on a civilian population, which was unconscionable I agree, would have been in violation of it, but the U.S. is not Western civilization, something you don't seem to grasp. But even so, short from the use of WMD's, NATO nations comply with the convention during times of war, even when such compliance is costly. Our enemies don't, because they belong to an INFERIOR culture. Time and time again, my argument proves correct.

 

good points, but americans could say the same, its egocentric...what they value maybe different than canadians...

Are the kung superior to the inuit? Are the andaman islanders superior to the ainu?...whose pov do we use, what are we measuring how are we measuring it, whats the baseline?...is it technology, political systems, social systems, quality of life, happiness, stress?...
A few posters seem convinced superiority is based on skin colour and a erroneous distorted knowledge of history....if there is one thing that culture is not is the amount of melanin in our skin....

 

compared to Sweden and Norway, the USA is an inferior culture.

 

so when usa used agent orange on vietnam what conventions was it following?...when america troops committed an act of genocide in Mai Lai then punished no one what convention was followed....when the usa illegally invaded Iraq needlessly killing hundreds of thousands of civilians what rules of convention was it following?

Your arguments have failed repeatedly due to a total ignorance of historical fact...

 

You have no idea what the Geneva convention is if you think the invasion of Iraq is in violation of it. And I'm disinclined to alleviate your ignorance, the gap being way too wide.

 

your posts are so fraught with ignorance it's become a comedy...

 

Socialization occurs via social pressures upon citizens to conform to a given set of social norms. Some philosophies are the sources of such norms. Whether you believe in God or not, religious philosophies have been a major source of our social norms. If you conform to those norms, it matters little whether you believe in God or not.

 

Can you give me some examples? What are the top 3?

 

The nation with the 2nd highest GDP after the US is China (and after that, Japan)...not white nations. The empirical evidence does not support your conclusion.

If race was the primary variable, European nations should be the ones in the lead. But they are not.

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According to who? How are you defining "superior" in this context?

 

Of course they can. The United states is clearly technologically superior to mexico. The US is clearly economically superior to Haiti. The US is clearly militarily superior to the Vatican.

The US can claim those things, and those things are obviously true.

 

I think the Chinese and Japanese along with India would take exception to the thought that white culture is better, more advanced or longer lived than theirs.
Much of what we point to as cultural successes are based on other factors besides simply saying ones culture is better than others.
Read more or simply watch and learn more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel