Originally posted by @fmf In Indonesia, we have over 300 ethnic groups. There are four major ones here on the island I live on. How many "white" ethnic groups do you think there are?
Oh geez, I don't know how many there are, and it would really depend on how you want to cut the cookie.
Are Bretons an ethnicity or just a group of French people? Are the French an ethnicity, or do we want to apply some divisions that are no longer so relevant?
Of course, the definitions of these things are slippery.
You know what else is slippery as far as definitions go? Pornography. And even within pornography, there are countless genres and subgenres.
Perhaps that's the beauty of words and systems. We can never be fully sure.
Oh geez, I don't know how many [white ethnic groups] there are, and it would really depend on how you want to cut the cookie.
Are Bretons an ethnicity or just a group of French people? Are the French an ethnicity, or do we want to apply some divisions that are no longer so relevant?
Of course, the definitions of these things are slippery.
You know what else is slippery as far as definitions go? Pornography. And even within pornography, there are countless genres and subgenres.
Perhaps that's the beauty of words and systems. We can never be fully sure.
So, are you a member of an ethnic group with what you say are "higher than average IQs" or are you a member of an ethnic group with "lower than average IQs"?
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Originally posted by @fmf [b]Oh geez, I don't know how many [white ethnic groups] there are, and it would really depend on how you want to cut the cookie.
Are Bretons an ethnicity or just a group of French people? Are the French an ethnicity, or do we want to apply some divisions that are no longer so relevant?
Of course, the definitions of these things are slippery.
You kno ...[text shortened]... "higher than average IQs" or are you a member of an ethnic group with "lower than average IQs"?
He concedes that he doesn't know how many white ethnic groups there are, but you'd have thought he'd know - at the very least - what his ethnic group is and how it fares in terms of the "IQ" comparisons he's so keen on.
Originally posted by @fmf He concedes that he doesn't know how many white ethnic groups there are, but you'd have thought he'd know - at the very least - what his ethnic group is and how it fares in terms of the "IQ" comparisons he's so keen on.
All of a sudden, after a few weeks of posting about studies he has read and which he has no answer to, which allegedly claim to prove that there are genetic differences which cause different ethic groups to have different IQs...suddenly Jacob doesn’t know which ethnic groups are which, which have the higher IQ and which don’t and which ethnic group he is in.
Other than him being “white”.
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Originally posted by @fmf He concedes that he doesn't know how many white ethnic groups there are, but you'd have thought he'd know - at the very least - what his ethnic group is and how it fares in terms of the "IQ" comparisons he's so keen on.
The quality of this thread wasn’t high to begin with due to the incoherence of the OP, but now it’s just a train wreck.
Did I not literally explain to you why I do not choose to identify with a particular ethnic group? LOL.
I also assume this is one of those silly moments where I have actually dodged a far larger bullet by not claiming anything that is fundamentally untrue, e.g., being an American claiming to be an ethnic Norwegian in spite of not being a full Norwegian, and my general caution on these topics and careful positioning is rewarded only with a more silly sort of low level nitpicking.
I also like how FMF doesn't engage with anything I said about the defining of ethnic groups and how that can be problematic but simply insists that I admit I don't know how many white ethnic groups there are.
Does this guy ever get tired of taking a statement and cherry pickign what single aspect he wantsf rom it?
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