RAF. Checked out your recommendations. Not impressed. In fact, seems close to scientific racism. Why are African-Americans singled out as particularly prone to violence due to their genetics? Weren`t they taken forcibily from their homeland by Europeans? Wasn`t the American Civil War fought by white Americans about slavery? The Spanish Inquisition? Pol Pot? Stalin? Hitler? In the UK we don`t have any particular problem with the Black population. Sorry, but it seems all culture and history driven driven to me. What`s next - the resurgence of phrenology?
Mike --- On Thu, 13/12/12, R A Fonda <[email protected]> wrote: From: R A Fonda <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Zen] Re: Compassion and zen To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, 13 December, 2012, 3:11 On 12/12/2012 3:21 AM, mike brown wrote: I`m not sure that certain ethic groups do have a higher propensity to wage war. It sounds as if you are unfamiliar with both the anthropology and genetic data. For the anthropology I suggest Napoleon Chagnon; for a glimpse at the tip of a genetic iceberg you could start here: http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&fr=ytff1-w3i&p=warrior%20gene%20wiki&type=W3i_YT,192,2_1,Search,20110210,17364,0,16,0 It seems much more to do with historical factors and culture. Culture is just a manifestation of genetics. Canadians basically share the same ethnicity as Amercans Neither Canadians nor Americans are ethnies, but Canadians are still mostly of the Euro-descendant genetic kindred. If you look at the US crime statistics you will see that there is almost an order of magnitude difference in commission of violent crime between Euros and people of African extraction; back to genetics. RAF
