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Re: BELL CURVE CRITIC EXPOSED?
Barbara Saunders (saunders@sybase.com)
Tue, 7 Feb 1995 20:59:45 GMT
In article <3gurd0$sj5@agate.berkeley.edu> <jerrybro@uclink2.berkeley.edu> writes:
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>This is what I mean. I don't even know what you're talking
>about any more. My original point was that "black" is not
>purely a question of how a person looks, and I thought of
>my Hindu roommate at M.I.T. as someone who might be mistaken
>for "black" because of the way he looked, but who in my
>opinion should not be called "black".
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That points to the problem, though. The *only way to use your definition
is to gradually eliminate those, like your Hindu roommate, who do not
fit it. There isn't any set of criteria I can see to describe those who
do fit it.
Barbara
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