Re: BELL CURVE
Rick Sutcliffe (rsutc@twu.ca)
Tue, 31 Jan 1995 19:51:06 GMT
In article <3gih22$51s@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu>, djohns@grove.ufl.edu
(David A. Johns) wrote:
> In article <3gh49f$cja@usenet.rpi.edu> turtom@rebecca.its.rpi.edu
(Michael Andrew Turton) writes:
>
> # I'll give you an answer -- the only thing that allows me
> # to distinguish between a Swede and a Nigerian "more often than
> # not" is whether they are carrying a passport. "Swede" and
> # "Nigerian" are not racial designations -- Nigerian is not even an
> # ethnic designation.
>
> If we picked Richard Leakey and Daley Thompson, do you think Bill
> Tyler would be able to say which one was English and which one Kenyan?
>
An interesting point. I have some friends who are Blacks. They were both
born in BC, Canada, but all their children were born in Pakistan and are
thereby Pakistani. What "race" are they?
Rick
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Rick Sutcliffe Assoc. Prof. Computing/Math Trinity Western University
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