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To: nihil who wrote (4043)	10/14/1999 2:38:00 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 6418

"I doubt if there is any true statement you could make about Italians." They are overwhelmingly Catholic? JLA

To: nihil who wrote (4043)	10/14/1999 2:48:00 PM
From: MikeH	Respond to of 6418

Ok, nihil, take a breath man. You can pick the Malcolm X hat up off the floor and put it back on. There you go, feeling better yet. Ok, here is a sloe gin fiz, maybe that'll take the edge off for you. Here is a little piece of information about human behavior that it looks like nobody has ever told you. People catagorize. It is natural for us, it happens to be one of the strongest functions of out brains. Now, what humans catagorize upon is two factors, what is similar, and what is disimilar. Ever wonder why there are thousands of breeds of birds, and the differences between two breeds can almost be indecipherable? It is because they have minute differences, like one has blue eye feathers and the second had green eye feathers. Well, people do the same thing for human races too! I know it is a shock, but it is actually quite natural. Like I said in my first post, generalizations cannot be applied to individuals. It is impossible. But, you can classify whole catagories. Just like companies that loan money to people are called banks, people with dark skin color are called blacks. How dark? Nobody really knows. Some Sicilians almost look black, but don't tell them that. Some "old money" blacks in America are so pale, you'ld mistake them for a knappy haired Slovac. But, overall, 99 in 100 people can tell you that Dr. King was black, and Larry Byrd was white. But even moreso, there are genetic differences, I'm sorry, but its true. I know it shocks your world view, but you are going to have to learn to live with it. You see, Marxist liberalism is dead. It is only in rich New York social circles that people believe that we are ever going to have a shiny happy world. Most of the rest of us have come to realize that the best way to get along with other races it to identify the differences, and then say, so what. We cannot live in a world of self denial where we view people of other races as the exact same. Lies only beget hate and rage, and you want love don't you nihil?

To: nihil who wrote (4043)	10/14/1999 10:04:00 PM
From: Akula	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6418

Interesting point about race definitions. It may interest you to know that the definition of black (not of Hispanic origin) on virtually every standardized test is something to the effect of "one whos ancestors originally came from Africa." One year I got fed up with the whole mess and pointed out that such a definition makes us all black. After all, didn't we all originally come from Africa? Henceforth, I am a different race on each test. I am simultaneously black (think great grandma Lucy), Asian (don't forget the possible Java man), and white (simply social convention.) I love screwing up their statistics. After all, if one can't even define race, what business does anyone have making decisions based on it?