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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=liamw]So your saying they are genetically inferior as far as there ability to learn go's ?  That's equally appalling.[/quote]

What's appalling?  That it might be true or that someone would say that that on a message board?  IMO, with the way the field of genetics is progressing this will be settled science one way or another in the next 15 years or so.[/quote]

Well, one thing that's appalling is that somebody would think "Hispanic" is a race.

Another thing that's appalling is that somebody thinks that race is a biological thing, rather than something humans made up. [b]The biological non-existence of race has been settled science for decades[/b].[/quote]

No, not really.  Read this; it's a reasonable discussion about it:  http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2013/05/why-race-as-a-biological-construct-matters/

I'm aware that "Hispanic" isn't a race; can you please find someplace where I said that?  Let's be honest though; Hispanics in the US are primarily Amerindian with some European background.

Like I said though, this will probably be settled by science in the near future. I would be thrilled if genetic research finds no differences; it would make me a lot more sanguine about the long term prospects of the country with the current immigration patterns.[/quote]

This is another interesting article about self-identification matching genetic profiles:  http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2005/01/racial-groupings-match-genetic-profiles-stanford-study-finds.html

One quote: "What makes the current study, published in the February issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics, more conclusive is its size. The study is by far the largest, consisting of 3,636 people who all identified themselves as either white, African-American, East Asian or Hispanic. Of these, only five individuals had DNA that matched an ethnic group different than the box they checked at the beginning of the study. That's an error rate of 0.14 percent."[/quote]

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