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To: Ilaine who wrote (29944)	2/26/2008 10:21:48 AM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Respond to of 217868

I shouldn't speak about Maoris, I don't really know much about them. But I know a lot about native Americans. Yes I really don't disagree either. Sometimes I read M as looking at things one way when it's not really the case. I should read his posts 3 times before responding LOL. It isn't a requirement that the invaders do the assimilating. Native Americans are a good example at home.. Seems the too many that (in Canada) stayed separate have suffered... not living the old ways or the new ways... French soldier who married a Chippewa woman LOL how different are we.. my strongest line is French and culturally we leaned more to the Chinese as the French was all around anyway.. I was raised mostly in English.. So am I assimilated ? Sure.. I'm Canadian first.. The origins are what helps to set me apart int he collective :O) The Black Swan EDIT: That is the problem with 'multiculturalism' as an entrenched policy.. assimilation is not always bad.. often the best parts of everything typically remain. The entrenchment promotes differences instead of letting the good differences speak for themselves..

To: Ilaine who wrote (29944)	2/26/2008 4:24:24 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217868

What do you mean "us" Hiawatha? <Take agriculture for another. Talk about a no-brainer, although it took us millions of years to figure it out, once we did, > For a start, you aren't that old, and agriculture was invented in the Middle East [so they say, but I'd be surprised if there weren't a few plantings here and there to encourage especially useful trees]. Anyway, my theory is that human intelligence has developed very rapidly over the last 10,000 years, by way of selection and breeding rather than new mutations, but there might have been some new mutations too which didn't hurt. So, average intelligence now is much more than 1000 years ago and 10,000 years ago. Look at the difference between African intelligence and others for an example of how big the differences can be. And Africans haven't stood still for 10,000 years, with genes flowing around the mass of humans as women hop the fence and join another village as primate females do. Males did a similar thing by marauding into neighbouring regions. The smart guys with sharper spears and onagers did better than those with fists and sticks. Genghis Khan went all the way to Turkey! He wasn't like modern tourists visiting Disneyland. He carried weapons! So it wasn't that we hung around waiting for a light bulb to go on about agriculture and inventing Globalstar. It was a matter of producing sufficient brainpower in the gene pool. One bright guy wasn't enough. It needed a lot. There was a lot of winnowing to get the good genes. It wasn't a no-brainer, it was a brainer! The no-brainers didn't have enough to figure it out. Mqurice