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Originally posted by Colin
Different cultures can be ahead or behind others technologically/culturally at different times without it saying anything about the people themselves.
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Thats a bit of a straw man. Cultures come and go, but thats not what I'm talking about. Anthropologists use 3 categories to define people: caucasiod, mongoloid, negroid. Most of the societies you've mentioned -- the romans, greeks, and arabs -- are caucasiod. One, the Chinese, is mongoloid.
There have been temporary shifts in technological advancement, but, and this is the important bit, they have ALL occoured EXCLUSIVELY within the caucasoid and mongoloid races.
The only group that has been universally left behind, without even the werewithal to create a written language, for the whole of history, is the negroid. The sub-saharan African.
Jesus, look at Liberia and S. Africa. They have both had all the advantages that the white man could have possibly bestowed upon them. We gave them a government, billions of dollars a year in aid, an infrastructure, and democracy. And what has happened? The same thing thats been going on in sub-saharan Africa for at least the last 7,000 years: a feral, tribal, anarchic society devoid of culture, a viable political system, and everything else which makes civilization civilized.
History provides the record, modern IQ tests provide the justification.