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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (219650)	2/19/2007 9:05:38 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I hope you're wrong about DNA. I hope the differences you're talking about can be learned, given a good upbringing and a good education. As well as good prenatal nutrition, no prenatal drugs, a non-damaging birth, an enriched environment, warm, kind and compassionate family and friends, lots of books, good role models, good nutrition growing up, people to teach things like reading and history and math and physics and logic and philosophy and compassion, people to teach impulse control and good manners. So many things to learn but in the right environment learning comes easy.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (219650)	2/20/2007 9:17:16 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Respond to of 281500

It's not "European" DNA which is superior. You need to look within the generalisation to individuals, but I think you'll find more of the "good stuff" in Europeans in general, and Ashkenazi Jews in particular. In this case differentiators in DNA does not matter that much. It hasn't been that long, something like in the last 2 or 3 hundred years, where Europeans have made enormous progress in terms of advancing civilization. In fact, it seems like they have made most of this progress in the last 50 years or so where they have distance themselves from others. The Japanese have made advances coming from where they were much farther behind but are now catching up at a faster pace. By advances, I don't necessarily mean what is measurable economically but also in terms of their participation in violence. Crime rates in these countries are very low and of course their military activities are inconspicuous. What is happening in Europe and in Japan tells us where civilization is heading. Violence is on its way out as a means to solve problems.