Obviously, higher-caste Indians are a different race than lower-caste Indians.
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Hey! This is racism! There’s no room for reason here!
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Assortive mating
As was the United States, functionally, for a good period of time. You’re refuting your own argument that race is the determinant.
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How can the average IQ of Indian’s in America be 28 points higher than the average IQ of Indian’s in India if IQ is dependent on race?
Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray, bold strategy.
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Assortive migration. (Beating him to the punch.)
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Not it’s not.
It’s heading that way now that women have entered the workforce. College graduate women marrying college graduate men.
Yes, it was - certainly formally during the era of slavery, and less formally during the era of Jim Crow.
Does anyone in here know any good racist jokes? It’s okay to tell them to me. I have a friend who is black.
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When you try to base IQ strictly on race you are heading into an area that is absolutely indefensible
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It’s not obviously, the bell curve I posted of black-whites shows 20% of blacks are smarter than the average white.
My daughter dated an AA guy for ~1 yr in high school. I used to joke that this inoculated me against all charges of racism for at least 10 years–sort of a ‘Get out of racism jail free’ card.
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Then you are also claiming that 80% of whites are smarter than blacks. But, there is no data to back up the assertion that it is because of race.
Of course there is, much of our intelligence is genetic.
I’d have to look up links, but here’s one to start
BTW Zeb: What is your opinion on White privilege?
Instead of recognizing what I posted above as an explanation, white privilege is used as a scapegoat instead for achievement differences. Meanwhile Asians and Jews out perform whites.
Now if you could just link those genetics to ‘race’ (whatever that means)…
You beat me to it. Exactly!
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It’s total and absolute nonsense.
If you reject the concept of race then it’s a trick question.