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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do not knock it. Wasps are great!  As my kids already realize, look around you. If it was not created by God - it was created by a Wasp or another European   [/quote]

Well the Greeks and the people of the Middle East actually invented most everything we attribute to the "whites" including MATH and if they did not invent it then the Chinese probably did.[/quote]

First of all, you know Greeks are white right?

Second of all:

Antibiotics.
The steam engine.
Electricity.
The light bulb.
The printing press.
Automobiles, bicycles, airplanes, horse-drawn carriage.  
Cameras, televisions, cell phones, computers, essentially all modern modes of communication.

I could literally go on and on.

Let's see what we got from China . . . noodles and gunpowder.
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First of all, you know you are a dick, right?

You got so much wrong on your list.  Where did you go to school, Trump University?[/quote]

I am a dick because???

Not Trump University, I was waitlisted and went to Columbia instead.

BTW -- What did I get wrong?

Who do you think invented the automobile and the airplane? The lightbulb? The telephone? Essentially every modern convenience that you take for granted. Hint: it rhymes with White Man.[/quote]

For inventions in the last 150 years you may be right that most of those now in use were done by white Westerners, but no one invented an automobile or a light bulb out of thin air. They built on knowledge of science and mathematics that originated with other cultures. That is what PPs are telling you. If you went back 700 years, you would find that Europe was a cesspool of ignorance and disease and it was East Asia and the Middle East that were enlightened and relatively sanitary. [/quote]

Exactly.  Just b/c you don't know the history takes nothing away from what other cultures contributed.

Already posted that the first camera and airplanes invented by Arabs.

[b]Antibiotics[/b]
Penicillin was "discovered" by an Englishman who didn't know what it was and developed by a [b]European Jew[/b] and an [b]Australian[/b]:
http://www.abc.net.au/science/slab/antibiotics/history.htm

Just so you know the contributions for modern medicine:
Jabir ibn Hayyan (722-815), known as the [b]father of chemistry[/b], worked in [b]Iraq[/b] devising and perfecting the processes of sublimation, distillation, crystallization, purification, oxidation, evaporation filtration and others.

Al-Zahrawi (936-1013), a physician and surgeon from [b]Muslim Spain[/b], wrote a 30-volume medical encyclopedia, giving detailed accounts of dental, pharmaceutical and surgical practices. H[b]e designed more than 200 surgical instruments such as syringes, droppers, scalpels and forceps[/b].

[b]Steam Engine[/b]
The first recorded rudimentary steam engine was the aeolipile described by Heron of Alexandria in the 1st century AD.
Encyclopædia Britannica. 2007. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 18 July

Yeah, Guttenburg invented moveable type in 1454, but where do you think the paper/linen came from that he used? 
That's right, paper mills in Iraq, Syria, and Palestine:  http://www.1001inventions.com/paper
Printing started in the Arab world in 1311:  http://www.muslimheritage.com/article/arabic-and-art-printing

Here's how information spread from the East to the West:
http://muslimheritage.com/article/transfer-islamic-technology-west
http://www.1001inventions.com/node/717

Philo Farnsworth invented TV.  He was an American and a Mormon, so I don't think he'd appreciated being referred to as a WASP:
http://www.biography.com/people/philo-t-farnsworth-40273

Hedy Lamarr, an American actress born in Austria to a Jewish father and a Hungarian mother, was a pioneer in cell phone technology:
http://www.women-inventors.com/Hedy-Lammar.asp

The first computer was the Chinese abacus.  
Yes, Charles Babbage was a WASP.  You got that one right:
https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/soco/projects/1998-99/babbage/bio.htm

But watch the video clip on the history of mathematics from the 7th century:
http://www.1001inventions.com/media/documentaries/maths
India and the Middle East are responsible for developing what Babbage studied like algebra.[/quote]

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