Does this poll reveal the number of white separatists ion the board?

[TheReal_ND]

Again, if your culture uses zeros, you're obviously North African.
inventing =/= copying
Derp derp, derp-sherpa.

Your reversing the flow of what Nukedog said.

Adopting aspects of another culture doesn't affect your race (i.e. genetic material).

If I start listening to Dr. Dre, I don't suddenly become black.

But Dr. Dre's genetic material surely affected the music he created.

Pretty simple.

The socio-economic environment Dre lived in had a MASSIVELY disproportionate impact on the music he created over his genes.

Now that's an argument. One I've seen a lot but I'm just not sold on it. Nevertheless, at least you're admitting that genetic disposition, curated over the span of lifetimes, could have some effect on his behavior and inclinations.

[Calculus Man]

Again, if your culture uses zeros, you're obviously North African.
inventing =/= copying
Derp derp, derp-sherpa.

Your reversing the flow of what Nukedog said.

Adopting aspects of another culture doesn't affect your race (i.e. genetic material).

If I start listening to Dr. Dre, I don't suddenly become black.

But Dr. Dre's genetic material surely affected the music he created.

Pretty simple.

The socio-economic environment Dre lived in had a MASSIVELY disproportionate impact on the music he created over his genes.

So why didn't a white guy from a bad neighborhood do it?

[Calculus Man]

Your reversing the flow of what Nukedog said.

Adopting aspects of another culture doesn't affect your race (i.e. genetic material).

If I start listening to Dr. Dre, I don't suddenly become black.

But Dr. Dre's genetic material surely affected the music he created.

Pretty simple.

The socio-economic environment Dre lived in had a MASSIVELY disproportionate impact on the music he created over his genes.

So why didn't a white guy from a bad neighborhood do it?

More to the point, why do bad white neighborhoods not look like Compton?

[TheReal_ND]

They have doors

[StCapps]

From your own source DB:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... y-of-zero/

It began to take shape as a number, rather than a punctuation mark between numbers, in India in the fifth century A.D.

[Calculus Man]

From your own source DB:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... y-of-zero/

It began to take shape as a number, rather than a punctuation mark between numbers, in India in the fifth century A.D.

Let's just stop pretending like DB's posts tonight have had any merit, and move on with our lives.

Race doesn't affect culture.

I saw a black dude make a snowman once. Case closed.

[nmoore63]

Your reversing the flow of what Nukedog said.

Adopting aspects of another culture doesn't affect your race (i.e. genetic material).

If I start listening to Dr. Dre, I don't suddenly become black.

But Dr. Dre's genetic material surely affected the music he created.

Pretty simple.

The socio-economic environment Dre lived in had a MASSIVELY disproportionate impact on the music he created over his genes.

So why didn't a white guy from a bad neighborhood do it?

Why did a race of slaves create their own culture and why is it taking so long for that culture to reintegrate into the dominate culture now that slavery has been abolished?

Because the human condition exists in time and it takes time for change to occur.

[TheReal_ND]

It does seem particularly insidious. In fact VERY insidious, to remove race from culture now that I think of it.....

but I already have. That's why I think the way I do

[nmoore63]

The socio-economic environment Dre lived in had a MASSIVELY disproportionate impact on the music he created over his genes.

So why didn't a white guy from a bad neighborhood do it?

Why did a race of slaves create their own culture and why is it taking so long for that culture to reintegrate into the dominate culture now that slavery has been abolished?

Because the human condition exists in time and it takes time for change to occur.

Or to put it in the form of a question:

You are aware that there are people living right now, that have talked with actual American slaves.... right?

[Calculus Man]

Okay, so people were enslaved, which resulted in a unique slave culture.

Why were those people enslaved? Because of their race.

Race---->Culture.

Nukedog wins. You guys suck. I wasn't even on his side to begin with.