GiovaniMarcon said:
One thing worth mentioning, and I think it's kind of important -- people who supposedly believe in the equality of races find nothing wrong with trumpeting the so-called "Asian IQ superiority" over Caucasians (which in itself is very minor) as a vindictive weapon to use against whites who point out the IQ differences between first and third world peoples -- as if to say, it's okay to imply that Asians are a superior race intellectually over whites, but it's never okay to say anyone is intellectually superior over blacks, and especially not okay for whites to do it.
It seems people who always apologize for black failure or lack of achievement want to have it both ways.
As it stands, I'm perfectly willing to concede that East Asians have, on average, higher IQs than white Europeans, but that difference is very slight, and, I believe, part of it has to do with the incredibly high pressure Asian families put on their children to succeed.
Nevertheless, whites on average "can hang" with the best Asian minds, where as Blacks -- cultural allowances accounted for -- have a much harder time of it.
It's seems okay for people to laugh at whites and lie about us not being able to jump, but woe betide the man who implies black people shouldn't take up room in college classrooms from vastly superior white and asian kids.
<p ="Msonormal">The white teens whom I work with willingly espouse Asian
intellectual superiority and black athletic superiority, an indication of low
cultural self-esteem. They do, however, notice the constant depictions of minorities
- including both blacks and Asians - in their textbooks, and that obnoxious
month devoted exclusively to blacks. The upside though is that it doesn't
take much reframing from me to get them to view things from a different
perspective. I'll mention, for instance, the myriad of European mathematicians
that created the formulas in their text book; or I'll listen to them complain
about the Puerto Rican who got into Harvard with only a 3.5 GPA. I think
most of them know what's going on, at least subconsciously; since they don't know
why though, they'll justify it with illogical inductions: whites are athletically
inferior, Asians intellectually superior, etc.ÂÂ
I have a lot of respect for the Asian culture; their views on meditation, religion,
and philosophy are worth reading. And while their cultural flaw may be an
inward bias, or focus on man's inner self, the Western man's flaw, as well as
his greatest strength, may be his outward bias, or extraversion. And it
was this extraversion that lead to observations in causality, and consequently
the bulk of creation of the modern world. Lest us not forget that before
Western influence, all of Asia lacked behind European nations in terms of
science, medicine, technology, infrastructure, etc.
Countries can claim, and probably manipulate, their national IQ all they
want. All debates constituting the nature of intelligence aside, a
country's history, it's contribution to the modern world both technologically
and philosophically, and those rare geniuses to which the sparks of their imagination
we owe the very moment we are in right now to - to the degree those
measurements indicate intelligence, then all the European race -Western,
Southern, and Eastern - have more that enough to be proud of.