So I'm just wondering: do you think Africans are intellectually inferior?
Hi guys, ex-Holla Forumsack here
Wyatt Jenkins
Jose Sanders
Not in any particular sense, no.
I believe the discussion on their lack of a civilized standard can't be blamed on colonialism, and that they have a capability that hasn't been fully realized.
Indo-Europeans had the advantages of livestock and trade, and Genghis Khan brought us the missing components to true civilization that Islam denied us when they isolated Europa's trade potential.
technologyreview.com
Intelligence is subjective, and all that's needed is literacy and mathematics. The rest just builds gradually from there.
Jose Gonzalez
Alright. Because it's fairly obvious that there is biological variation in the human species. But I've met many smart African comrades.I do agree the multi regional hypothesis is more likely - and it's a shame that anthropology and racial science is hijacked for politics so often.
Interestingly enough there was this one study where when a group of South Africans were given proper education in college their average IQ rose to 96 - only 4 IQ points below the western Average.
Hudson Perez
didn't mean my name to be that.
Hudson Jones
I think that true Intelligence is closely related to language, since language primordially deals with exchange of ideas and thoughts.
For instance, we tend to separate africans into sub and supra saharans, and it seems thst the further north you go, the smarter the people usually are, why? Because their geographical approximation to trade routes and multiple civilizations are ideal for cross-pollination of ideas and concepts as well as linguistic forms and so on.
And if you look at it on a day-to-day example. People with short vocabularis are generally less competent in the thinkig department, to put it mildly.
Grayson Evans
The
Isaiah Murphy
Africans are human, and possess the same adaptive capabilities- even if they're playing catch-up.
There are clear ethnic distinctions all over Africa as there are all over Europe that we don't widely recognize.
Also, Africans are typically more friendly towards the revolution than other groups.
youtube.com
South Africa in particular is very commie friendly.
Intelligence however is subjective.
Koko the gorilla was taught sign language, could communicate, and some suggested her I.Q. may well have been as high as 75 or even 90+ on some tests. A lot of this is wishful thinking on the part of researchers, but that it was at all possible says a lot about us as a species.
This is no clear indication, but we can see even our most distant relatives have some capability.
Tesla as the odd example of true human genius was most fond of pigeons. He saw in them a pure intelligence that we are only still trying to understand.
The Octopus uses distributed intelligence and is smarter than most household pets.
Dolphins are emotional, sadistic, rapists, and racially prejudiced.
Whales spread unique songs; for humans, songs provide long oral histories like the Iliad.
Often we like to project ourselves onto the animal world, but most bias aside we can still observe the signs of burgeoning sentience all around us.
The Sub-Saharan distinction exists as North Africa was European prior to Islam, and dominated by Mediterraneans. Numidians remained but mostly interbred.
Egypt is the ethnic grab bag, we can't even begin to suppose what they were before black-Africans ruled, followed by Ptolemy and then Islam, which all had a go at them.
However, the areas colonized in Africa are more successful than mostly uncolonized Central Africa because most of those areas are coastal regions, and thus able to benefit from trade.
We also can see a few forgotten ruins all over Africa that suggest they weren't all that far behind us.
getaway.co.za
Really- all you need is to develop literacy, and everything slowly resolves itself. Illiteracy is the foundation of havoc and bedlam in society.