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To: Emmo who wrote (7689)1/29/1999 8:54:00 PM
From: Zeev Hed  Read Replies (1) of 27311
 
Emmo, I really do not think that Pallisard's comment was particularly racist, it points to cultural differences that makes different nations excel at different things. I personally believe such differences are rooted in the nations' languages more then any genes or anything like that. Take the Germans, in their language, you never know what they mean until they finish the sentence with or without a "nicht", that rears people that will excel in exacting (rather then particularly innovative) tasks like engineering, and they are indeed know for that. The Japanese and Chinese have a language that requires mastering some 5000 different symbols that will make them excel in tasks such as managing large organizational structures with many details (mass production?). And I can go on with other examples of the influence of particular languages, yet each of these nations have given the world great innovators despite the straight jacket of their languages. Some of the best theoretical physics of this century has come from Germany, Japan and China. Some of which requires not only "innovation" but a "leap of faith".

Zeev
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