--- On Sat, 8/30/08, U P Kamath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There is also survival of fittest in evolution. I was
> pointing this had
> negative effect on the racial stock of Goa, due to
> oppressive slavery of the
> Portuguese - free spirited people could not survive their
> oppression - they
> either died early or migrated to British India.
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Dear U P Kamath,
I sigh in relief to know that your remark was not an ethnic slur but intended
to be a deep study in genetic modification brought on by slavery and
oppression, as you put it.
Now, to further extrapolate based on your theory, we know from history that
Brahmins were the most oppressed group under Muslim rule in India, hence as a
homogenised group, they would be genetically disposed to produce the weakest
stock.
To take your theory outside of India for a moment, and examine it in the area
of "free-spiritedness and survival of the fittest", European Jews should be of
inferior stock to Germanic Europeans, seeing that they have endured not just
years but centuries of oppression in Europe. I do believe there was a man who
postulated this very theory at one point in our recent history.
Yes, you and I have the same ancestors, only to the extent that the Jamaican I
met on the street the other day has the same ancestors as me, and the ape I saw
in the zoo, is my genetic cousin. But seeing that you consider Catholics as
emerging from a vastly inferior stock, I say let's not stress too much on what
we have in common, for it's very little indeed.
selma
