[JonatonM]

So oppression is a good enough excuse for the Greeks, but not for Negroes? You seem to be under the impression that blacks were oppressed for eternity, which I know is the politically correct narrative, but it holds no water.

Yes, yes, I know all about Greek ideas about beauty being defined by symmetry, proportion and whatnot. Too bad plato was not a scientist and is not the final word on anything. He was a scientist actually, not that scientists are the final say in anything, and he showed quite well how beauty is eternal and objective. Your words seem to indicate the opposite of what you say; that you don't know anything about philosophy.

IQ and similar "intelligence" categories are firmly liked to social/economic development, and not any inherent biological factors Only according to cultural marxist anthropologists who have a vested interest in denying the biological reality of race. There was a study done on medical students in some african country, whose name I don't remember, and they scored around the expected 80 point range. Why is that? They can't blame it on oppression or anything other factors. Chinese peasants still score around 100, despite having no education. So your argument doesn't seem to work.

As for arabs, they aren't really a race. Egyptians, syrians etc, are all arabised, not arabs as such. It wasn't the arabian tribemen from the arabian peninsula who made all the advancements; they themselves went back to their simple lives not long after the openings of the middle east. The islamic intellectual tradtion, specifically ashari theology, is essentially Persian, the whole line of philosophical argumentation that came via the mutazila into asharism came by the persian and christian converts to islam. Even in grammar, the one to formalise grammar, sibawayh, was not even an arab, he was persian.

As for blacks, they never progressed to a stage from which they could stagnate.

No, but it's not entirely clear that they didn't have any Negroid heredity at all. Just look at the statues of the ancient pharaohs. Many of them have features that look negroid to me. lolno.

By the way, poor whites in America tend to be just as "stupid" as poor blacks. Stupid, yes, in lacking education. But there is still the IQ gap.

A century is not a very long time for a community to rise up out of extreme poverty, malnutrition, No excuse, they've had since the beginning of time, and only 'progressed' once they were given european technology.

And I can only scoff at your 'list.'