Thread: The implications of having DNA

Originally Posted by KCJones

There is less genetic variation in the entire human race then there is in two differnt family groups of gorillas living in two adjoining valleys in the Congo.

there is variation, and its significant enough to be studied.

here is some intro reading for you

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_genetics"]Race and genetics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]


here are a few


Caucasoid race:
Aryan
Semitic
Hamitic

Negroid race:
African Negro
Hottentot
Melanesian
Negrito
Australoid <<---------- australian aboriginals

Uncertain:
Dravida and Sinhalese

Mongoloid race:
North Mongol
Chinese and Indochinese
Japanese and Korean
Tibetan
Malay
Polynesian
Maori
Micronesian
Eskimo
American



racism seem silly to me, its only physical feature that are different.
most people are racist not due to hating physical features, but hating the culture associated with that race. most of that hate is due to fear and has been taught from an early age.

Yep, quite funny, but it's not a new idea - it was done by John Safran quite a few years back with a different guy in the States with a similar outcome. It was on one of his shows, and in his last book.

I cant say I actually hate anyone but I do have some issues with them - not because of race, creed, breed or religion - it's because they are tools, pure and simple

Originally Posted by Eevo

there is variation, and its significant enough to be studied.

here is some intro reading for you

Race and genetics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


here are a few


Caucasoid race:
Aryan

Saw a very good program about the origins of the swastika, in which the concept of an Aryan race was debunked as Nazi propaganda. It did not exist. A little bit more here;
Who Were the Aryans? Hitler's Persistent Mythology - Archaeology




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Who's read the book "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin? It's an insightful read and as relevant today as when it was written fifty odd years ago.

Saw this the other day.

Louis Theroux and the Nazi's

Meet Lamb and Lynx, two ~10 year American girls who sing racist songs at skinhead rallies and describe their favorite computer game 'Enthic Cleasing' while their smiling mother beams on proudly. Home schooled of course so they can't be brainwashed by the evils of society in general.

Anyway a good watch but don't try understanding it there is just no accounting for how some people are wired up.

Im not racist, I hate everyone equally!

As for Hitlers Aryan dream? He viewed the Dutch as Aryans and yet he occupied and starved the country for years.

My kids all born Blonde with blue or light eyes as I was despite their mothers genetics.

I remember having a discussion with a small group of white pride guys in their 20's years ago and pointing out that more than half of them would have been viewed as genetically defective or impure which kinda upset them a bit.
They were chatty enough and happy to discuss their beliefs with me but their whole premise was deeply flawed from where I stood and their ideology was unsound.

This was during the time when Vietnamese refugees were flocking here in boats and feeling ran high on the subject so I had a bit of fun tweaking their belief structure.

The problem today is that the word Racist is used as an easy way to discredit people who often speak common sense and the Vocal minority groups will brand people using the media as such with little or no fear of the label being rejected.

Political correctness has ushered in a new kind of McCarthyism where people dare not voice an opinion (Right or wrong) for fear of being labelled.

The PC brigade will get you for questioning anything they are promoting and being a plain spoken bloke of sensible outlook I have copped this in the past and shrugged it off with a chuckle.

People seem to be constantly outraged about something and organising rallies and protests or Facebook pages and I often stop and wonder how much more fulfilling their lives would be if they channeled their energies into getting a job or improving their personal circumstance instead of frothing at the mention of underpriveliged ****awe tree frogs in east Afrika........

On the bright side they keep me laughing at their efforts.

The noisy minority outnumber the quiet , level headed majority, it seems. The noisy mob are more likely to protest, knock on politicians doors, & get caught up in their cause, above all else. The level headed majority, usually only get involved when things are starting to drift into chaos. We need both types in a working democracy. Bob