Re: BELL CURVE CRITIC EXPOSED?
Barbara Saunders (saunders@sybase.com)
Tue, 7 Feb 1995 01:05:44 GMT
In article <3gtp3v$ain@agate.berkeley.edu> <jerrybro@uclink2.berkeley.edu> writes:
>dexter@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Frosch) wrote:
>
>> actually, the confusion of definitions is worse than i had
>> picked up in passing. the use of 'african-AMERICAN' to mean
>> any person of african descent, i could _just_ manage to forgive
>
>I was talking about Americans.
>
>> as an americocentric slip of the tongue. but using "hindu" as
>> a designator of "race"??
>
>I wasn't using "hindu" as a designator of "race". I was using
>the statistical fact that not a lot of Africans are Hindu.
But *you used Hinduism as a designator of "not being of the African
*race." If you're basing "African race" on lack of correlation with
a given religion, that really points to a lack of meaninful
criteria.
>
Barbara
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