Prejudice
"Are you prejudiced?" asks StapMyVitals. Have you been a victim of prejudice? Are you a columnist for a popular daily newspaper? Don't bang on about how you never judge people on first impressions - no-one will believe you.
( , Thu 1 Apr 2010, 12:53)
"Are you prejudiced?" asks StapMyVitals. Have you been a victim of prejudice? Are you a columnist for a popular daily newspaper? Don't bang on about how you never judge people on first impressions - no-one will believe you.
( , Thu 1 Apr 2010, 12:53)
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African blacks have more genetic and phenotypic diversity than the rest of the human race put together
So while it may be true that the fastest sprinters are black, the best long distance runners, etc. it is probably also true that the worst sprinters and long distance runners are black (but harder to measure). For any given human parameter, the chances are that the distribution curve is somewhat flatter for black people than it is for other ethnic groups. Mainly because there are many different ethnic groups within the heading "black people", united only by their skin colour.
So the bodies of some black people may be more dense than the average white person. Other black people will be less dense. Some may have relatively long tendons; others will have relatively shorter ones.
Of such generalisations are prejudices made...
( , Wed 7 Apr 2010, 14:21, 1 reply)
So while it may be true that the fastest sprinters are black, the best long distance runners, etc. it is probably also true that the worst sprinters and long distance runners are black (but harder to measure). For any given human parameter, the chances are that the distribution curve is somewhat flatter for black people than it is for other ethnic groups. Mainly because there are many different ethnic groups within the heading "black people", united only by their skin colour.
So the bodies of some black people may be more dense than the average white person. Other black people will be less dense. Some may have relatively long tendons; others will have relatively shorter ones.
Of such generalisations are prejudices made...
( , Wed 7 Apr 2010, 14:21, 1 reply)
Of such generalisations are prejudices made?
Believing that black people have longer tendons or are more dense is never going to lead to prejudice unless you're seriously unbalanced.
No more so than believing they have higher genetic diversity than white people, anyway.
Generalisations are a good thing, they allow a better starting point for understanding things than having to start from 'new thing, what is it?'.
Also, assuming you're right (and you used bigger words than me, so could be), we're still lacking an explanation to why black people are notably absent from swimming events.
( , Wed 7 Apr 2010, 15:01, closed)
Believing that black people have longer tendons or are more dense is never going to lead to prejudice unless you're seriously unbalanced.
No more so than believing they have higher genetic diversity than white people, anyway.
Generalisations are a good thing, they allow a better starting point for understanding things than having to start from 'new thing, what is it?'.
Also, assuming you're right (and you used bigger words than me, so could be), we're still lacking an explanation to why black people are notably absent from swimming events.
( , Wed 7 Apr 2010, 15:01, closed)
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