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**JonatonM** · 05-09-2012, 04:30 AM

From personal experience I've seen white people grow up in majority African American environment, "ghetto", and I don't see a difference.

Please backup that these whites would be naturally predisposed to be more intelligent despite their environment.

Depends on how we define intelligent. An intelligent person is one who has 'understanding', this is the meaning of the word 'intellectus' in its latin original form. It is more nuanced than the english word 'intellect', which only seems to apply to analytical skills, the ability to do math.

Whites have the analytical skills, perhaps, but a lot of them seem to lack understanding.

That said, I'm struggling with myself not to assign you into the category of racist or 'other' It is hard to do, I can see how some of us are struggling intellectually with it and making statements that are cruel, unjust and unethical. I don't agree. There shouldn't be anything wrong seen in having a lower analytical ability, which is what IQ measures. But it just so happens this skill is needed to create all this modern technology we have.

05-09-2012, 04:30 AM	#23
JonatonM Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 435 Senior Member	From personal experience I've seen white people grow up in majority African American environment, "ghetto", and I don't see a difference. Please backup that these whites would be naturally predisposed to be more intelligent despite their environment. Depends on how we define intelligent. An intelligent person is one who has 'understanding', this is the meaning of the word 'intellectus' in its latin original form. It is more nuanced than the english word 'intellect', which only seems to apply to analytical skills, the ability to do math. Whites have the analytical skills, perhaps, but a lot of them seem to lack understanding. That said, I'm struggling with myself not to assign you into the category of racist or 'other' It is hard to do, I can see how some of us are struggling intellectually with it and making statements that are cruel, unjust and unethical. I don't agree. There shouldn't be anything wrong seen in having a lower analytical ability, which is what IQ measures. But it just so happens this skill is needed to create all this modern technology we have.
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