““it should be easy to modernize a tribal society by importing Western institutions.” But tribal societies are characterized by strong kinship relations and low levels of trust toward non-kin. Western institutions are characterized by high levels of trust among strangers. Tribal institutions are designed to empower the officeholder and his tribe, while Western institutions are designed to operate in the public interest. These differences are far more than skin deep, and have been shaped by centuries of human evolution.”
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Now this is the most interesting observation of all. Most people in the western world tend to label this sort of behavior corruption but it is increasingly common in areas dominated by largely unassimilated minorities even here in the United States, just as it is increasingly common among the non-western world.
I honestly feel this is primarily a cultural legacy of the lands from which theses people originate. But i won’t deny the possibility that there may be genetic factors which leave people predisposed toward developing and retaining theses sorts of behavioral patterns.
20th century: # 1900: Rigid dirigible airship: Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin # 1901: Improved wireless transmitter: Reginald Fessenden # 1901: Mercury vapor lamp: Peter C. Hewitt # 1901: paperclip: Johan Vaaler # 1902: Radio magnetic detector: Guglielmo Marconi # 1902: Radio telephone: Poulsen Reginald Fessenden # 1902: Rayon cellulose ester: Arthur D. Little # 1903: Electrocardiograph (EKG): Willem Einthoven # 1903: Powered Monoplane: Richard Pearse # 1903: Powered Airplane: Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright # 1903: Bottle machine: Michael Owens # 1904: Thermionic valve: John Ambrose Fleming # 1904: Separable Attachment Plug: Harvey Hubbell # 1905: Radio tube diode: John Ambrose Fleming # 1906: Triode amplifier: Lee DeForest # 1907: Radio amplifier: Lee DeForest # 1907: Radio tube triode: Lee DeForest # 1907: Vacuum cleaner, (electric): James Spangler # 1909: Monoplane: Henry W. Walden # 1909: Bakelite: Leo Baekeland # 1909: Gun silencer: Hiram Percy Maxim # 1910: Thermojet engine: Henri Coandă # 1911: Gyrocompass: Elmer A. Sperry # 1911: Automobile self starter (perfected): Charles F. Kettering # 1911: Air conditioner: Willis Haviland Carrier # 1911: Cellophane: Jacques Brandenburger # 1911: Hydroplane: Glenn Curtiss # 1912: photography ;Lapse-time camera for use with plants:Arthur C. Pillsbury # 1912: Regenerative radio circuit: Edwin H. Armstrong # 1913: Crossword puzzle: Arthur Wynne # 1913: Improved X-Ray: William D. Coolidge # 1913: Double acting wrench: Robert Owen # 1913: Cracking process for Gasoline: William M. Burten # 1913: Gyroscope stabilizer: Elmer A. Sperry # 1913: Geiger counter: Hans Geiger # 1913: Radio receiver, cascade tuning: Ernst Alexanderson # 1913: Radio receiver, heterodyne: Reginald Fessenden # 1913: Stainless steel: Harry Brearley # 1914: Radio transmitter triode mod.: Ernst Alexanderson # 1914: Liquid fuel rocket: Robert Goddard # 1914: Tank, military: Ernest Dunlop Swinton # 1915: Tungsten Filament: Irving Langmuir # 1915: Searchlight arc: Elmer A. Sperry # 1915: Radio tube oscillator: Lee DeForest # 1916: Browning Gun: John Browning # 1916: Thompson submachine gun: John T. Thompson # 1916: Incandescent gas lamp: Irving Langmuir # 1917: Sonar echolocation: Paul Langevin # 1918: Super heterodyne: Edwin H. Armstrong # 1918: Interrupter gear: Anton Fokker # 1918: Radio crystal oscillator: A.M. Nicolson # 1918: Pop-up toaster: Charles Strite # 1919: the Theremin: Leon Theremin # 1922: Radar: Robert Watson-Watt, A. H. Taylor, L. C. Young, Gregory Breit, Merle Antony Tuve # 1922: Technicolor: Herbert T. Kalmus # 1922: Water skiing: Ralph Samuelson # 1922: Photography : First mass production photo machine:Arthur C. Pillsbury # 1923: Arc tube: Ernst Alexanderson # 1923: Sound film: Lee DeForest # 1923: Television Electronic: Philo Farnsworth # 1923: Wind tunnel: Max Munk # 1923: Autogyro: Juan de la Cierva # 1923: Xenon flash lamp: Harold Edgerton # 1925: ultra-centrifuge: Theodor Svedberg - used to determine molecular weights # 1925: Television Iconoscope: Vladimir Zworykin # 1925: Television Nipkow System: C. Francis Jenkins # 1925: Telephoto: C. Francis Jenkins # 1926: Television Mechanical Scanner: John Logie Baird # 1926: Aerosol spray: Rotheim # 1927: Mechanical cotton picker: John Rust # 1927: Photography:First microscopic motion picture camera: Arthur C. Pillsbury # 1928: sliced bread: Otto Frederick Rohwedder # 1928: Electric dry shaver: Jacob Schick # 1928: Antibiotics: Alexander Fleming # 1929: Electroencephelograph (EEG): Hans Berger # 1929: Photography:First X-Ray motion picture camera:Arthur C. Pillsbury # 1920s: Mechanical potato peeler: Herman Lay # 1930: Neoprene: Wallace Carothers # 1930: Nylon: Wallace Carothers # 1930: Photography: Underwater Motion Picture Camera: Arthur C. Pillsbury # 1931: the Radio telescope: Karl Jansky Grote Reber # 1932: Polaroid glass: Edwin H. Land # 1935: microwave radar: Robert Watson-Watt # 1935: Trampoline: George Nissen and Larry Griswold # 1935: Spectrophotometer: Arthur C. Hardy # 1935: Casein fiber: Earl Whittier Stephen # 1935: Hammond Organ: Laurens Hammond # 1936: Pinsetter (bowling): Gottfried Schmidt # 1937: Jet engine: Frank Whittle Hans von Ohain # 1938: Fiberglass: Russell Games Slayter John H. Thomas # 1938: Computer: Konrad Zuse (Germany) simultaneously as Atanasoff (United States) # 1939: FM radio: Edwin H. Armstrong # 1939: Helicopter: Igor Sikorsky # 1939: View-master: William Gruber # 1942: Bazooka Rocket Gun: Leslie A. Skinner C. N. Hickman # 1942: Undersea oil pipeline: Hartley, Anglo-Iranian, Siemens in Operation Pluto # 1942: frequency hopping: Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil # 1943: Aqua-Lung: Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Emile Gagnan # 1943: electronic programmable digital computer: Tommy Flowers [1] # 1944: Electron spectrometer: Deutsch Elliot Evans # 1945: Nuclear weapons (but note: chain reaction theory: 1933) # 1946: microwave oven: Percy Spencer # 1947: Transistor: William Shockley, Walter Brattain, John Bardeen # 1947: Polaroid camera: Edwin Land # 1948: Long Playing Record: Peter Carl Goldmark # 1949: Atomic clocks # 1952: fusion bomb: Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam # 1952: hovercraft: Christopher Cockerell # 1953: maser: Charles Townes # 1953: medical ultrasonography # 1954: transistor radio (dated from the from Regency TR1) (USA) # 1954: first nuclear power reactor # 1954: geodesic dome: Buckminster Fuller # 1955: Velcro: George de Mestral # 1957: Jet Boat: William Hamilton # 1957: EEG topography: Walter Grey Walter # 1957: Bubble Wrap - Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes of Sealed Air # 1958: the Integrated circuit: Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments, Robert Noyce at Fairchild Semiconductor # 1959: snowmobile: Joseph-Armand Bombardier # 1960s: Packet switching: Donald Davies and Paul Baran, video games # 1960: lasers: Theodore Maiman, at Hughes Aircraft # 1962: Communications satellites: Arthur C. Clarke # 1962: Light-emitting diode: Nick Holonyak # 1963: Hypertext: Ted Nelson # 1963: Computer mouse: Douglas Engelbart # 1965: 8-track tapes: William Powell Lear # 1968: Video game console: Ralph Baer # 1970: Fiber optics # 1971: E-mail: Ray Tomlinson # 1971: the Microprocessor # 1971: the Pocket calculator # 1971: Magnetic resonance imaging: Raymond V. Damadian # 1972: Computed Tomography: Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield # 1973: Ethernet: Bob Metcalfe and David Boggs # 1973: Monash University scientists report the world's first IVF pregnancy. # 1974: Scramjet: NASA and United States Navy -- first operational prototype flown in 2002 # 1974: Heimlich Maneuever: Henry Heimlich # 1975: digital camera: Steven Sasson # 1977: the personal computer (dated from Commodore PET) # 1978: Philips releases the laserdisc player # 1978: Spring loaded camming device: Ray Jardine # 1979: the Walkman: Akio Morita, Masaru Ibuka, Kozo Ohsone # 1979: the cellular telephone (first commercially fielded version, NTT) # 1970s: Tomahawk Cruise Missile (first computerized cruise missile) # 1983: Domain Name System: Paul Mockapetris # 1985: polymerase chain reaction: Kary Mullis # 1985: DNA fingerprinting: Alec Jeffreys # 1989: the World Wide Web: Tim Berners-Lee 19th century # 1800: Electric battery: Alessandro Volta # 1801: Jacquard loom: Joseph Marie Jacquard # 1802: Screw propeller steamboat Phoenix: John Stevens # 1802: gas stove: Zachäus Andreas Winzler # 1805: Submarine Nautilus: Robert Fulton # 1805: Refrigerator: Oliver Evans # 1807: Steamboat Clermont: Robert Fulton # 1808: Band saw: William Newberry # 1811: Gun- Breechloader: Thornton (?) # 1812: Metronome: Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel # 1813: Hand printing press: George Clymer # 1814: Steam Locomotive (Blucher): George Stephenson # 1816: Miner's safety lamp: Humphry Davy # 1816: Metronome: Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (reputed) # 1816: Stirling engine: Robert Stirling # 1816: Stethoscope: Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec # 1817: Kaleidoscope: David Brewster # 1819: Breech loading flintlock: John Hall # 1821: Electric motor: Michael Faraday # 1823: Electromagnet: William Sturgeon # 1826: Photography: Joseph Nicéphore Niépce # 1826: internal combustion engine: Samuel Morey # 1827: Insulated wire: Joseph Henry # 1827: Screw propeller: Josef Ressel # 1827: Friction match: John Walker # 1830: Lawn mower: Edwin Beard Budding # 1831: Multiple coil magnet: Joseph Henry # 1831: Magnetic acoustic telegraph: Joseph Henry (patented 1837) # 1831: Reaper: Cyrus McCormick # 1831: Electrical generator: Michael Faraday, Stefan Jedlik # 1834: June 14 - Isaac Fischer, Jr. patents sandpaper # 1834: The Hansom cab is patented # 1834: Louis Braille perfects his Braille system # 1835: Photogenic Drawing: William Henry Fox Talbot # 1835: Revolver: Samuel Colt # 1835: Morse code: Samuel Morse # 1835: Electromechanical Relay: Joseph Henry # 1836: Samuel Colt receives a patent for the Colt revolver (February 24) # 1836: Improved screw propeller: John Ericsson # 1836: Sewing machine: Josef Madersberger # 1837: Photography: Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre # 1837: First US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport (February 25) # 1837: Steel plow: John Deere # 1837: Standard diving dress: Augustus Siebe # 1837: Camera Zoom Lens: Jozef Maximilián Petzval # 1838: Electric telegraph: Charles Wheatstone # 1838: Forerunner of Morse code: Alfred Vail # 1838: closed diving suit with a helmet: Augustus Siebe # 1839: Vulcanization of rubber: Charles Goodyear # 1840: Frigate with submarine machinery SS Princeton: John Ericsson # 1840: artificial fertilizer: Justus von Liebig # 1842: Anaesthesia: Crawford Long # 1843: Typewriter: Charles Thurber # 1843: Fax machine: Alexander Bain # # 1844: Telegraph: Samuel Morse # 1845: Portland cement: William Aspdin # 1845: Double tube tire: Robert Thomson (inventor) # 1846: Sewing machine: Elias Howe # 1846: Rotary printing press: Richard M. Hoe # 1849: Safety pin: Walter Hunt # 1849: Francis turbine: James B. Francis # 1852: Airship: Henri Giffard # 1852: Passenger elevator: Elisha Otis # 1852: Gyroscope: Léon Foucault # 1853: Glider: Sir George Cayley # 1855: Bunsen burner: Robert Bunsen # 1855: Bessemer process: Henry Bessemer # 1856: First celluloids: Alexander Parkes # 1858: Undersea telegraph cable: Fredrick Newton Gisborne # 1858: Shoe sole sewing machine: Lyman R. Blake # 1858: Mason jar: John L. Mason # 1859: Oil drill: Edwin L. Drake # 1860: Linoleum: Fredrick Walton # 1860: Repeating rifle: Oliver F. Winchester, Christopher Spencer # 1860: Self-propelled torpedo: Ivan Lupis-Vukić # 1861: Ironclad USS Monitor: John Ericsson # 1861: Regenerative Furnace: Carl Wilhelm Siemens # 1862: Revolving machine gun: Richard J. Gatling # 1862: Mechanical submarine: Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol # 1862: Pasteurization: Louis Pasteur, Claude Bernard # 1863: Player piano: Henri Fourneaux # 1864: First concept typewriter: Peter Mitterhofer # 1865: Compression ice machine: Thaddeus Lowe # 1866: Dynamite: Alfred Nobel # 1867: # 1868: First practical typewriter: Christopher Sholes, Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule, with assistance from James Densmore # 1868: Air brake (rail): George Westinghouse # 1868: Oleomargarine: Mege Mouries # 1869: Vacuum cleaner: I.W. McGaffers # 1870: Magic Lantern projector: Henry R. Heyl # 1870: Stock ticker: Thomas Alva Edison # 1870: Mobile Gasoline Engine, Automobile: Siegfried Marcus # 1871: Cable car (railway): Andrew S. Hallidie # 1871: Compressed air rock drill: Simon Ingersoll # 1872: Celluloid (later development): John W. Hyatt # 1872: Adding machine: Edmund D. Barbour # 1873: Barbed wire: Joseph F. Glidden # 1873: Railway knuckle coupler: Eli H. Janney # 1873: Modern direct current electric motor: Zénobe Gramme # 1874: Electric street car: Stephen Dudle Field # 1875: Dynamo: William A. Anthony # 1875: Gun- (magazine): Benjamin B. Hotchkiss # 1876: Telephone: Alexander Graham Bell # 1876: Telephone: Elisha Gray # 1876: Carpet sweeper: Melville Bissell # 1876: Gasoline carburettor: Daimler # 1877: Stapler: Henry R. Heyl # 1877: Induction motor: Nikola Tesla # 1877: Phonograph: Thomas Alva Edison # 1877: Electric welding: Elihu Thomson # 1877: Twine Knotter: John Appleby # 1878: Cathode ray tube: William Crookes # 1878: Transparent film: Eastman Goodwin # 1878: Rebreather: Henry Fleuss # 1878: Incandescent Light bulb: Joseph Swan # 1879: Pelton turbine: Lester Pelton # 1879: Automobile engine: Karl Benz # 1879: Cash register: James Ritty # 1879: Automobile (Patent): George B. Seldon ... note did NOT invent auto # 1880: Photophone: Alexander Graham Bell # 1880: Roll film: George Eastman # 1880: Safety razor: Kampfe Brothers # 1880: Seismograph: John Milne # 1881: Electric welding machine: Elihu Thomson # 1881: Metal detector: Alexander Graham Bell # 1882: Electric fan: Schuyler Skatts Wheeler # 1882: Electric flat iron: Henry W. Seely # 1883: Auto engine - compression ignition: Gottlieb Daimler # 1883: two-phase (alternating current) induction motor: Nikola Tesla # 1884: Linotype machine: Ottmar Mergenthaler # 1884: Fountain pen: Lewis Waterman NB: Did not invent fountain pen, nor even "first practical fountain pen". Started manufacture in 1883, too. # 1884: Punched card accounting: Herman Hollerith # 1884: Trolley car, (electric): Frank Sprague, Karel Van de Poele # 1885: Automobile, differential gear: Karl Benz # 1885: Maxim gun: Hiram Stevens Maxim # 1885: Motor cycle: Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach # 1885: Alternating current transformer: William Stanley # 1886: Gasoline engine: Gottlieb Daimler # 1886: Improved phonograph cylinder: Tainter & Bell # 1887: Monotype machine: Tolbert Lanston # 1887: Contact lens: Adolf E. Fick, Eugene Kalt and August Muller # 1887: Gramophone record: Emile Berliner # 1887: Automobile, (gasoline): Gottlieb Daimler # 1888: Polyphase AC Electric power system: Nikola Tesla (30 related patents.) # 1888: Kodak hand camera: George Eastman # 1888: Ballpoint pen: John Loud # 1888: Pneumatic tube tire: John Boyd Dunlop # 1888: Harvester-thresher: Matteson (?) # 1888: Kinematograph: Augustin Le Prince # 1889: Automobile, (steam): Sylvester Roper # 1890: Pneumatic Hammer: Charles B. King # 1891: Automobile Storage Battery: William Morrison # 1891: Zipper: Whitcomb L. Judson # 1891: Carborundum: Edward G. Acheson # 1892: Color photography: Frederic E. Ives # 1892: Automatic telephone exchange (electromechanical): Almon Strowger - First in commercial service. # 1893: Photographic gun: E.J. Marcy # 1893: Half tone engraving: Frederick Ives # 1893: Wireless communication: Nikola Tesla # 1895: Phatoptiken projector: Woodville Latham # 1895: Phantascope: C. Francis Jenkins # 1895: Disposable blades: King C. Gillette # 1895: Diesel engine: Rudolf Diesel # 1895: Radio signals: Guglielmo Marconi # 1895: Shredded Wheat: Henry Perky # 1896: Vitascope: Thomas Armat # 1896: Steam turbine: Charles Curtis # 1896: Electric stove: William S. Hadaway # 1897: Automobile, magneto: Robert Bosch # 1898: Remote control: Nikola Tesla # 1899: Automobile self starter: Clyde J. Coleman # 1899: Magnetic tape recorder: Valdemar Poulsen # 1899: Gas turbine: Charles Curtis 18th cent. # 1701: Seed drill: Jethro Tull # 1705: Steam piston engine: Thomas Newcomen # 1709: Piano: Bartolomeo Cristofori # 1710: Thermometer: René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur # 1711: Tuning fork: John Shore # 1714: Mercury thermometer: Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit # 1730: Mariner's quadrant: Thomas Godfrey # 1731: Sextant: John Hadley # 1733: Flying shuttle: John Kay (Flying Shuttle) # 1742: Franklin stove: Benjamin Franklin # 1750: Flatboat: Jacob Yoder # 1752: Lightning rod: Benjamin Franklin # 1762: Iron smelting process: Jared Eliot # 1767: Spinning jenny: James Hargreaves # 1767: Carbonated water: Joseph Priestley # 1769: Steam engine: James Watt # 1769: Water Frame: Richard Arkwright # 1775: Submarine Turtle: David Bushnell # 1777: Card teeth making machine: Oliver Evans # 1777: Circular saw: Samuel Miller # 1779: Spinning mule: Samuel Crompton # 1783: Multitubular boiler engine: John Stevens # 1783: Parachute: Jean Pierre Blanchard # 1783: Hot air balloon: Montgolfier brothers # 1784: Bifocals: Benjamin Franklin # 1784: Shrapnel shell: Henry Shrapnel # 1785: Power loom: Edmund Cartwright # 1785: Automatic flour mill: Oliver Evans # 1787: Non-condensing high pressure Engine: Oliver Evans # 1790: Cut and head nail machine: Jacob Perkins # 1791: Steamboat: John Fitch # 1791: Artificial teeth: Nicholas Dubois De Chemant # 1793: Cotton gin: Eli Whitney # 1793: Optical telegraph: Claude Chappe # 1797: Cast iron plow: Charles Newbold # 1798: Vaccination: Edward Jenner # 1798: Lithography: Alois Senefelder # 1799: Seeding machine: Eliakim Spooner 17th century * 1608: Telescope: Hans Lippershey * 1609: Microscope: Galileo Galilei * 1620: Slide rule: William Oughtred * 1623: Automatic calculator: Wilhelm Schickard * 1642: Adding machine: Blaise Pascal * 1643: Barometer: Evangelista Torricelli * 1645: Vacuum pump: Otto von Guericke * 1657: Pendulum clock: Christiaan Huygens * 1698: Steam engine: Thomas Savery
What if?
Rotflmaopimp
I can only imagine the klown posse stupidity downthread
Anyone who has kids knows personality is inherited largely
OK
So this thread has a slew of Freepers known to me as race baiters, minority apologists and general south bashers
And a fair number of racial realists...and not all are known southern
So my question is who determined this thread about racial construct decided it was about whites or blacks?
Why not about other races or sub races?
What kills me is the group that considers itself in race denial then spends the entire thread defending the black race as just that....a race.
And again....no other minority group gets mentioned except Jews and Chinese in passing.
Since I know all my good pals here are dying to know.
I believe there are distinct races ....can’t verify timelines or how distinct or original but I think this Neanderthal DNA stuff is a tell
I think Geography is a big factor....especially isolation
I think physical differences can be demonstrated somewhat racially and overlap in places....Ethiopia....Tarim Basin...Cherokees...well not proven yet
I think personality is inherited largely and that obviously translates into group behavior and resultant culture
I think there are high and low exceptions in each group that exceed the mean of outside groups
But that doesn’t negate the mean being what it is....think Chinese basketball players or Fernando Valenzuela
I think the world was largely civilized....imperfectly but nonetheless by the white race.....preferably by the English speaking......Romans too .... and we are now resented for it and apologize for it as though everything was bucolic and better before we arrived which is hogwash
It was called western civilization for good reason and I make no apologies
Whatever happened to A-mighty G-d? Genesis? Adam and Eve?
Oh boy...it is morality, not race..and some of those human tribes lost their morality when they left the home of civilization, which was the garden of Eden, not a cave! Evolution is a joke...marco.
Culture is the issue. Culture/subculture is the problem among many people within races. Culture can also be changed.
This thesis has a certain powerful explanatory force. It helps explain why less successful cultures don’t simply copy more successful ones. “If the differences between a tribal society and a modern state were purely cultural,” he writes, “it should be easy to modernize a tribal society by importing Western institutions.” But tribal societies are characterized by strong kinship relations and low levels of trust toward non-kin. Western institutions are characterized by high levels of trust among strangers. Tribal institutions are designed to empower the officeholder and his tribe, while Western institutions are designed to operate in the public interest. These differences are far more than skin deep, and have been shaped by centuries of human evolution.
That's human nature and culture. It's also why that those within the groups that impact matters. An Englishman, Brahmin, or Orangeman can not get Irish to change. Those within have to change.
There's still the stereotype of "drunken and fighting Irish" but the stereotypes used to be a lot worse. Wife-beating. "undeveloped brains". Lazy. Criminals that ended up in the paddywagon. Prostitution. It was also allegedly due to generic. We're Celts, not Anglo-Saxons. You don't see those three stereotypes anymore. Today, American Irish are among the more educated whites in society, aren't regulars in jail, and are productive members of society. That started with people like Archbishop John Hughes. It starts with the moral code and the family.
Though just 30 or 40 years before, New Yorkers had viewed the Irish as their criminal class, by the 1880s and 1890s the Irish proportion of arrests for violent crime had dropped from 60 percent to less than 10 percent. The Irish were the pillars of the criminal justice system. Three-quarters of the police force was Irish. The Irish were the prosecutors, the judges, and the jailers.
Alcoholism and drug addiction withered away. By the 1880s an estimated 60 percent of Irish women, and almost a third of the men, totally abstained from alcohol. Many Irish sections in the city became known for their peacefulness, order, and cleanliness—a far cry from the filth, violence, and disease of the Five Points and Sweeney’s Shambles of mid-century. Gone, too, was the notorious Irish promiscuity of those years; New York’s Irish became known by the latter part of the nineteenth century as a churched people, often chided by the press for their “puritanical” attitudes. Irish prostitutes virtually disappeared in the city, as did the army of Irish youths wandering the streets without adult supervision. Irish family life, formerly so frayed and chaotic, became strong and nourishing. Irish children entered the priesthood or the convent, the professions, politics, professional sports, show business, and commerce. In 1890 some 30 percent of New York City’s teachers were Irish women, and the Irish literacy rate exceeded 90 percent. In 1871 reformer “Honest” John Kelly became the leader of Tam-many Hall, and with the election in 1880 of shipping magnate William Grace as mayor, the Irish assumed control of city politics.
Culture, not genetics.
Everyone, liberal or conservative, secular or religious, weill admit that dog and horse breeds differ in intelligence, trainability, and temperament (meanwhile, you get big differences even within a breed, many of which "run in families). Left-wing double-think must be very powerful for so many people to bury their heads in the sand and say that the same thing applies to humans. It's especially ironic when liberals who otherwise tirelessly promote Darwin and evolution throw them out the window as soon as they come into conflict with "equality" and egalitarian social engineering.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3154750/posts?page=12
NYT editors sound like some posters here