Re: What do you consider more important.....
What I don't get, Mouse, is that while you do not deny that it is possible for blacks to be PhD canditates in an exact science, you try to argue that on a larger scale this would be impossible. My friend, if this black boy that I met had not left Nigeria and had not had the opportunity to get a British education, he would have been a soldier now in Nigeria, and most propably dead.
Again, as long as you do not believe in this potential on a larger scale, you are not intelligent. You know why? Because you will only support the downfall of the world, instead of supporting its continuation. You say that idiots breed more than intelligent people. Now if you would think: "In every race, ethnicity, and class, there are many who could be educated on higher levels," you would reduce the number of idiots drastically, as I have done at least with approximately eighty kids from a lower class background, of which I'm fairly sure at least 50 have gone on to do a higher education, something that NO ONE thought would be possible, except for myself. Why do you keep ignoring this?
I meant reproduction. Don't know why I wrote "production." The point was, nature does not make a distinction in giving us the ability to learn how to walk, talk, and have sex.
So what? What you are you saying? That an African American who speaks English with an "accent" does not have the ability to learn how to speak impeccable English? Or for that matter Spanish, Armenian, and Russian?
I forgot to mention that during the Soviet Union, Russia promoted the education of Africans (from Africa, not America) at their technical universities. To this day, there are African students in Russia studying some engineering, physics, or mathematics at university level, in RUSSIAN! So even learning Russian is a piece of cake for them, a language I bet you would have liked to believe is more complex than Swahili or Igbo.
We have the ability to record languages and transcribe them, even if the people who speak this language do not have a written form of it.
You are forgetting that when a language has no case, it has prepositions and postpositions to compensate.
Originally posted by Anonymouse
Again, as long as you do not believe in this potential on a larger scale, you are not intelligent. You know why? Because you will only support the downfall of the world, instead of supporting its continuation. You say that idiots breed more than intelligent people. Now if you would think: "In every race, ethnicity, and class, there are many who could be educated on higher levels," you would reduce the number of idiots drastically, as I have done at least with approximately eighty kids from a lower class background, of which I'm fairly sure at least 50 have gone on to do a higher education, something that NO ONE thought would be possible, except for myself. Why do you keep ignoring this?
No, not even the potential to learn, associate, memorize, analyze or criticize is the same. The fact that we can do all those things, does not mean we are equal in the way we produce. Different individuals, as well as different groups, have different potentials to do all those things. The fact that they may have potential does not mean anything at all. All land animals have a potential to run, does mean anything? No. Your reference to production, to me at least, translates to outcome and results, which is untrue. In conclusion, nothing is equal, not production, not consumption and not presumption.
The fact that you have exceptions to the rule, because of conditioning and socialization are able to speak without any accentual variation, again, does not mean anything. The vast majority of cases that are observed every day, can be seen and heard. There is actually evidence that the perception of pitch, which plays a major role in music and language, is genetically determined in humans. This could, if unearthed further, explain the different races and their relation to pitch and rhythm, both in rhetoric and music. Most blacks speak in what we call "ebonics". Even if they speak perfect English without any accentual variation, that comes as a result of years of conditioning, or adoption, or what have you. When they themselves, without any conditioning or socialization, pick up a language such as English, we can observe the natural differences of their tongue, vocal chords, ululation, accentuation, and inflection.
I forgot to mention that during the Soviet Union, Russia promoted the education of Africans (from Africa, not America) at their technical universities. To this day, there are African students in Russia studying some engineering, physics, or mathematics at university level, in RUSSIAN! So even learning Russian is a piece of cake for them, a language I bet you would have liked to believe is more complex than Swahili or Igbo.
And before a language can be considered complex, there must be a written form of it, somehow.
You obviously wouldn't say that a language with 15 cases is the same as one with 7, would you?
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