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Ability is race neutral?

I disagree. I do of course believe character is race neutral. Certain cognitive skills may be race neutral but they are not culture neutral...that is painfully obvious. I am a southerner. I know I am not as math proficient as many Asians and cannot connect my mind to expression as well as the average Jew....although the latter is for sure a cultural edge to being Jewish.

well....I have little doubt and I believe it has been proven blacks tolerate heat better.

I would also imagine Inuits tolerate cold better.

Your average Caucazoid as well.

I bet Tutsis can jump higher.

On average Caucazoids have larger cranuims and larger female pelvises for which they can pass through. I suppose that gives Caucazoid chicks a better "ability" birthing big headed babies.

I bet Ethiopians and Kenyans and Andeans run long distance better on average.

Black males have higher free testosterone levels than any other race....and I'm jealous...lol

They also have denser bone mass in Western and Central Africa and more elongated muscles.

I could go on and on. These are only physical differences often environmentally enhanced or created perhaps but not always but they are proven and undeniable and do translate to differences in abilities that depend on that.

I had this very conversation today with a social anthropology teacher I know.....on a jog-walk...we often discuss this topic since it is his area and he thinks all racial differences are environmental requisites.We were laughing about the myth of the black "appendage" being the biggest. He said no....the Northern American Plains Indian Male literally holds that distinction on average. That I did not know and I have no idea who in the hell studies such things...probably our tax dollars at work.

Anthropology is a strange thing...damn, they are I think the most lefty of all academics....my friend sure is.

I don't think we are all the same (racial or otherwise) with the same abilities and I think character is earned. I think some groups that could be defined by race or ethnicty or to be sure culture do better at some things than others. I think that is God's way. He created us equal in his eyes. That has nothing to do with performance.

The problem with race is superiority and turf issues. Enlightenment has busted superiority in the west at least but turf issues are not going away whther inter-racial or intra-racial....not in my lifetime anyhow.