Re: Are Americans genetically superior?
Richard A. Goodman (rag@hooked.net)
Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:54:57 GMT
Jonathan Adams <jonathan> wrote:
>wvanhou237@aol.com wrote:
>>
>> Show me another country that can gear up in short order, furnish
>>food and arms
>>for our allies and ourselves, and fight two different wars at the same
>>time .
>>(Pacific and Europe) And as soon as the war was over supply the
>>equivilance of
>>another war to rebuild not only our Allies but the ex-enemy too. Then to
>>manage
>>to survive over two generations of trade deficites. And to maintain a
>>standard of
>>living as high as any in the world.
>I bet the Romans would have said similar things about themselves just before
>the crunch.
>> Selecting a few Nobel Laureats or a few Olymphic Medalists says
>>nothing
>>whatever about the population as a whole. Just as picking a couple Blue
>>Ribbon
>>country fair winners would say nothing about the total milk production of
>>a dairy
>>herd. I was writing about the total population of this country. And I was
>>talking about the other imigrants; blacks , orientals, hispanics, and
>>native americans
>>(did I miss anybody?) who have contributed their part to the Great
>>Experiment ?
>I did also mention longevity and infant mortality being essentially the same on
>both sides of the Atlantic (except that America does less well than some
>European countries). Also (and if one takes these things seriously which I'm
>not sure I do, though it may indicate something about SOME rather dreary
>crossword-puzzle-type aspects of mental functioning), the average IQ score of
>Americans is identical (i.e. 100) to the populations they left behind in
>Europe. And I don't notice fewer Americans requiring glasses or contact lenses
>to correct vision defects. If there were indeed greater 'genetic fitness' in
>the American population, wouldn't we expect such things to have improved?
Does any of this matter ?
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