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To: MikeH who wrote (4020)	10/14/1999 2:28:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 6418

Your problem is that you have no interest in scientific truth. You want to make racial statements when you cannot define racial membership. You want to make absurd statements that apply to averages not aggregates. Why would anyone make an absurd statement about Italians. I doubt if there is any true statement you could make about Italians. Why do you want to make imprecise and unsupportable generalizations. Because they are untrue, they are insulting and deceptive. What in the world does the statement "On the whole Africans have longer thigh bones ... than Caucasians.." What in the world does that mean --- all Africans, all tall Africans, what do you mean? As for running down game, etc. you should recognize that the present view is that all human beings are descended from Africans. It is probably the case that all of your ancestors ran the veldt. Why did your thighbones not lengthyen like you suppose the still-Africans did? To make true racial statements, insulting or not, you must define a race. No one can do that. Race is just a crude and inexact classification. It is particular popular concept with racists, and has no validity at all with social or biological scientists. Racial jokes and prejudice are part of the irrational and hateful aspect of humanity. Between the species and the individual, there are no objective and immutable categories. Any measure one wants to take, height, weight, IQ, skin color, blood type varies and overlaps over sub-populations. We aare obviously interfertile -- one single species. Some of us have one sex and some another, skin and hair and eye color varies. Race is not a biological category. Race is a convention at best.