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How strong is the genetic influence in shaping human behavior compared to environmental influences (or learning factors)? |
| (- 5) Environmental view: The genetic influence is minor and the environment is everything. The human brain has a tremendous capacity for learning and adapting to new environments. Human similarities across mankind are vastly greater than differences. In the near term, at least, we can ignore racial differences to avoid war, maximize access to plentiful labor, and quickly grow businesses. When people put their minds to it, they can learn to form political coalitions and mutually beneficial economic arrangements that span racial and ethnic differences. National boundaries and indigenous culture are often obsolescent relics that get in the way of material progress. Interracial marriage is nothing to get excited about if we can rely on forms of learning and indoctrination to overcome racial separatist tendencies. We may even want to actively try to mix people up with interracial marriage, since this gives people a vested personal interest in supporting race-mixing ideologies as an end in itself. People's similarities are so much greater than their differences, that efforts to segregate on any level are often dangerous and even suspiciously "Hitlerian." Such efforts usually reflect unjustified snobbiness or forms of exploitive class conflict and oppression. Just as civilized life in a big city involves helping people learn how to adjust to each other by learning how to live in close proximity, so racial tolerance is just another component of civilized life. The answer to racial strife is more education and more social intervention by authorities and even more social integration until people finally learn how to get along. |
. . . | (+5) Genetic view: The genetic factor is very important, if not critical. Twin studies confirm that most human temperamental traits are at least 50% genetic, and intelligence 60-80% genetic. There are also profound genetic differences between human racial groups based upon divergent evolutionary histories that are more than skin deep; for example the 15 point average IQ difference between blacks and whites involves differences in brain anatomy. Whites have about twice the cerebral folding density compared to blacks, and a vastly higher ratio of frontal cortex (related to abstract, analytical intelligence) compare to the anterior brain. Mixing an equal number of blacks and whites drops the number of people with IQs over 130 by 90%, a leadership loss no advanced civilization can afford. In regard to comparing whites with other races, or even internally among other groups of fellow whites, there are significant innate character trait differences that affect such qualities as honesty, reliability, and mental stability. In the long run race is a critical variable in the character of civilizations. Reproductive segregation is vital to preserve desirable traits. Cultural integrity is vital for a society to retain its cohesion, productivity, and competitiveness as well as preserve its biological integrity. America's all-white society of the 19th century actually worked very well considering what the people had to deal with at the time. "Fixing" what was not "broke" with cultural social experimentation and racial "diversity" has in fact now made us "broke" and dysfunctional over a hundred years later in ways that were unheard of in the 19th century. |
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