Rambi, I admit to enlarging the subject. And using words with literary license. I admit that Google and friends aren't a species, or even ethnic. But I prefer to not be discriminatory, or racist, or speciesist, just because the subject is missing some amino acids. There's more to life and ethics than the narrow spectrum of human DNA.
I should ask a dictionary the meaning of ethnicity and race, because I don't know the difference, but I suppose there is one. Such words seem to be splattered around with very imprecise meaning these days [all the better to avoid being truthful in my opinion].
As you originally wrote, mental midget status and lack of literacy are far from the same thing.
Maoris had no written language, yet it is rumoured that they could think. Some seemed to do it quite well. I notice that children who can't read [aged 2, 3, 4, 5] are perfectly capable of thinking and can be very obviously super smart mental gymnasts.
Being unable to read does limit information sources dramatically so thinking is limited to other sources of information. I know a blind man who worked for QUALCOMM doing high-end maths and stuff for PureVoice [and probably other things]. QUALCOMM provided him a reader, to read things for him. His mental processes seemed more than adequate for all sorts of things. They were in fact superlative in many ways [obviously, to be doing the job he was doing].
He could move around a 3D environment and do all sorts of things operating on a tactile and sound basis. I was amazed.
Mqurice
PS: I have now read Dictionary.com for the definitions of race and ethnicity and ethnicity has more emphasis on cultural aspects, but it is heavily genetic too. Ethnicity is a nice word, race is not. I think that's the main difference. One can speak politely about ethnic groups, but not about racial groups. That seems to be the main difference. Which is pathetic. |
