\hp200\doc\web\99\10\racegend.txt
From:           	SteveSlr@aol.com
Date sent:      	Tue, 13 Jul 1999 10:39:58 EDT
To:             	h-bd@egroups.com
Subject:        	[h-bd] Re: Blacks are men, whites are women


<< This is the second time I have seen this blacks-are-men,
whites-are-women
 parallel.  The first was in an article in New Yorker about genetic
 diversity.  There, too blacks are "men" (lotsa g.d.) and whites are
 "women". What's going on here? -- John Derbyshire  >>


It's a little more complicated than that , but here's my take (as appeared
in National Review, 4/6/98):


Interestingly, many of the most striking racial differences can be thought
of as resembling faint sex differences. For example, contrast the triumph
of Japanese manufacturing with Japan's near-total failure in the brutally
competitive global market for celebrities. (A recent survey revealed that
Americans believe the most famous living Japanese person is Bruce Lee, a
dead Chinese guy.) It's the mirror image of African-Americans'
undistinguished technological achievements versus their outstanding
performance in producing media personalities. 


Why? Japanese talents extend far beyond chopstick-handling to a set of
extremely masculine intellectual skills. Tests show they tend to excel at
objective abilities like mathematics and mentally manipulating 3-d objects
through "single-tasking" (focusing deeply upon a one impersonal logical
problem). Blacks, on the other hand, are often better at typically
feminine, more subjective cerebral skills like verbalization, emotional
intuition and expression, sense of rhythm, sense of style, improvisation,
situational awareness, and mental multi-tasking. Michael Jordan's brain,
for instance, enables him to anticipate his opponent's every move while
simultaneously demoralizing his foe with nonstop trash-talking. (Try it
sometime. It's not easy.) 


Next, think about physical and emotional/personality traits. Here the
races are arrayed in the opposite order. Blacks tend to display more of
typically male qualities like muscularity, aggressiveness, self-esteem,
need for dominance, and impulsiveness. In contrast, the Japanese economy
benefits from a male workforce endowed with more typically feminine
virtues like small fingers and fine motor skills, cooperativeness,
humility and anxiety, loyalty, long-term orientation, diligence, and
carefulness. Combined with their first-rate masculine mental skills, these
make Japanese companies powerhouses at exporting superbly engineered
machinery. 


Compared to Japanese organizations, black communities tend to be
physically and psychologically masculine, sometimes to the point of
disorderliness. Yet a relatively high percentage of individual black men
achieve fame by possessing charismatically masculine looks and
personalities, without the nerdishness that Dilbert-style male
intellectual skills often induce. 


Steve Sailer
http://members.aol.com/steveslr