Firstly I wanna comment on something about some archaeologists I've met. Some of them are quite incredible and awesome. Great scientists. Others, namely many that fester with an undergrad degree at a blockbuster hoping someone hires them for the 'incredible' insights need to fuck off. YOU CANNOT PARTICIPATE PROPERLY IN TRUE SCIENCE WITH AN ARTS DEGREE. Digging through a dead cultures trash is no more a science than taking a shit on a flower and watching the effects, at least not the way your artsy interpretations work. Seriously, a single flake found at a site tells me the following: Someone made a tool, at least in part, in this spot, some time ago. What it tells them: The exact layout of the camp of an unknown tribe, complete with butchering area, size of camp, number of occupants and tents and duration of stay. When you point out that it doesn't tell you that reasonably, they rage on you and call you a faggot. Yes, logic is the "faggot" here. Fuck you, pseudoscience art fuckstains.
Yeah, you can tell I'm not too pleased with these gems of people, which is why I saved it for a particularly bad day...to facilitate my rage.
Anyways, one thing this oh-so-educated group pipes about is how race doesn't exist. Now, logically, the Bush-men of Africa have been shown to GENETICALLY be the most plesiomorphic group on the planet. I guess genetics matter for not when you have a blanket principle. That sounds like another group I rip on a lot...interesting. Let me hit you all with some fact: if a 3 year old can make the observation, odds are it exists.
Now I know, once again, it may come off as racist for me to say "black people have larger lips, curly hair and tons more melanin than whitey". Well, yeah, it's technically a stereotype. Stereotypes are based on one key thing though and that thing is observation. You don't hear about a ton of asian people flying through the air at will on wings of gold because they don't do it. If they did, I bet it would be racist to say that. I am rambling; lets get to the point. There are differences between the races. It's not like a species level thing, or even a subspecies thing. This is something called phenotypic plasticity. We see it in all sorts of other animals and it can very frequently be an allele thing.
I will give you a non human example.
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Crested geckos, Rhacodactylus ciliatus. Currently spamming the pet trade for breeding like Giraffes (see: can't be stopped) and for being amazingly docile without the need for heat or UV (but that's another blog, how much I hate herpetoculturists). You will note the vibrant color differences in these geckos- however, what is more subtle, is the orientation of the crests (vertical or horizontal), size of the crests, size of the gecko itself and many other subtle character traits that someone that bred them, such as myself, would recognize. These are referred to as "morphs" in the Herpetoculture community and in my opinion they aren't really that dissimilar from race. The one true difference is that race in humanity reflects isolated populations breeding for generations expressing different phenotypes and the reptiles are isolated populations being (irresponsibly) inbred and selectively bred to rapidly express different phenotypes. Hey, what do you know, when I write it that way they sound the same with one being rapid and the other being slower.
If race doesn't exist, why do we cast blacks to be president in the movie 2012 or most movies with a president in them these days? Why do we bother casting a black kid to be the offspring of a black in a movie? Oh, right, Archaeologists would argue vehemently that it's a cultural construct and that culture makes movies. Last I checked, Archaeologists basically study ancient cultures....so would it not make sense to apply cultural constructs to your research? OF FUCKING COURSE IT WOULD YOU BLOODY HYPOCRITES!
I defy them to provide me 2 people with pure ancestry from Japan who have given birth to someone with blonde hair and blue eyes or black skin with curly hair (instead of the Japanese norm, straight). It isn't going to happen. Do you know why it isn't going to happen? Certain genes either aren't functioning or are completely removed from certain populations; failing that, they lack ability to express themselves due to our friend genetics. The moment they show me two people with ancestry from Kenya producing a child that is Maori, or any cross-race combination like that, I will drop my standpoint and bend over for them. Til then, the evidence is strongly in my court.
So to sum it up,
Points for Steve: Genetics, observation a 3 year old could make, logic
Points for Arky: Hypocrisy
Total Score: 3 to -1. Good job assholes, no wonder everyone with half a brain fucking hates you.
Monday, March 8, 2010
Friday, March 5, 2010
A note to the Culturally Impaired.
I'm sure someone is going to call me racist for this, but I will qualify the term "Culturally Impaired" and then you too will be educated like me. Culturally Impaired is a term I made up a number of years ago. It doesn't refer to a culture being impaired compared to another one or imply inferiority of one way of life over any other. What I would say is the best descriptor for it is the following:
"A person or people who find themselves in another culture for an extended period of time (ie the rest of their life) and refuse to learn the language, culture, way of life or even common basic manners to allow for better functioning within the culture they are in."
Now it should be pointed out that I'm not saying they should assimilate; Jews can have their Chanukah, people can Kwanza it up for all I care and they can eat all their ethnic foods and whatnot til they explode. I am not asking them to change, I would just like for them to function. I suppose the best way to talk about what this term means is to give an example.
Every year the street I currently live on has a block party. Everyone comes, it's like 5 bucks to register and it's a good time. Everyone comes...except, that is, the two asian families. The parents are shut-ins, closing their blinds and even crying to the city the day of the event as if it's some big shock to them. I don't understand what is so difficult about coming out and enjoying a beer and a burger with people you live next to and see on the regular. These people, I would say, are culturally impaired. They shun friendliness and instead drive their car like it's a god damn bike. They cut people off in the supermarket as if they are still living in Shanghai and act like total pricks.
The above example highlights a classic case of cultural impairment. Why, then, was the word impaired chosen over the word "retraded" or "cocksmithery"? Simple. A drunk driver is pretty out of it and is said to be impaired. He is an inconvenience or perhaps a danger to all those around him and is unable to function at driving in much the same way that the culturally impaired are unable to function in our culture. It's kind of like a zombie being referred to as the living impaired- they are a great problem, inconvenience and danger to those who are not living impaired. So the impaired affect themselves and those around them in a negative way....hence, Culturally Impaired.
I do not understand these people. Move to Canada from where ever, you are more than welcome. When you start shunning yourself like some fuck rag and treating others like pieces of shit or whatever, that's where I have an issue. I guess this makes me look like a total asshole, not being flexible to their way of life. That simply isn't the case though- I just want functionality, not assimilation. Their kids don't have a problem in our schools becoming human (or somewhat human, as per gang members and other toolbags who think high school is serious business). I don't know what's so hard about learning a basic understanding of the dominant language of your country and figure out that people wanna punch you in the breast for cutting them off while piloting your shopping cart. I would personally dislike being unable to communicate and being hated in the place I CHOSE to move to. If you wanna be hear so badly that you move you should probably try to function. FUNCTION FUNCTION FUNCTION. I didn't say that word enough yet.
Man these people piss me off. Just for reference, it can happen to all people- whites included. A nice example of what TO do would be my neighbors. Moved over from Germany with their little kids and learned the language and culture, but still speak German at home and have all their traditions in tact. They are lovely people, well liked and function quite well in this society. In fact, I'd be sad if they had to leave for any reason. Was that so hard for them to do? I don't think so.
So, a note to any culturally impaired who can actually read this (See: None): LEARN HOW TO LIVE IN THE COUNTRY YOU ARE IN OR GET THE FUCK OUT. We want you here, but only if you aren't going to be a prickly son of a bitch shut in.
"A person or people who find themselves in another culture for an extended period of time (ie the rest of their life) and refuse to learn the language, culture, way of life or even common basic manners to allow for better functioning within the culture they are in."
Now it should be pointed out that I'm not saying they should assimilate; Jews can have their Chanukah, people can Kwanza it up for all I care and they can eat all their ethnic foods and whatnot til they explode. I am not asking them to change, I would just like for them to function. I suppose the best way to talk about what this term means is to give an example.
Every year the street I currently live on has a block party. Everyone comes, it's like 5 bucks to register and it's a good time. Everyone comes...except, that is, the two asian families. The parents are shut-ins, closing their blinds and even crying to the city the day of the event as if it's some big shock to them. I don't understand what is so difficult about coming out and enjoying a beer and a burger with people you live next to and see on the regular. These people, I would say, are culturally impaired. They shun friendliness and instead drive their car like it's a god damn bike. They cut people off in the supermarket as if they are still living in Shanghai and act like total pricks.
The above example highlights a classic case of cultural impairment. Why, then, was the word impaired chosen over the word "retraded" or "cocksmithery"? Simple. A drunk driver is pretty out of it and is said to be impaired. He is an inconvenience or perhaps a danger to all those around him and is unable to function at driving in much the same way that the culturally impaired are unable to function in our culture. It's kind of like a zombie being referred to as the living impaired- they are a great problem, inconvenience and danger to those who are not living impaired. So the impaired affect themselves and those around them in a negative way....hence, Culturally Impaired.
I do not understand these people. Move to Canada from where ever, you are more than welcome. When you start shunning yourself like some fuck rag and treating others like pieces of shit or whatever, that's where I have an issue. I guess this makes me look like a total asshole, not being flexible to their way of life. That simply isn't the case though- I just want functionality, not assimilation. Their kids don't have a problem in our schools becoming human (or somewhat human, as per gang members and other toolbags who think high school is serious business). I don't know what's so hard about learning a basic understanding of the dominant language of your country and figure out that people wanna punch you in the breast for cutting them off while piloting your shopping cart. I would personally dislike being unable to communicate and being hated in the place I CHOSE to move to. If you wanna be hear so badly that you move you should probably try to function. FUNCTION FUNCTION FUNCTION. I didn't say that word enough yet.
Man these people piss me off. Just for reference, it can happen to all people- whites included. A nice example of what TO do would be my neighbors. Moved over from Germany with their little kids and learned the language and culture, but still speak German at home and have all their traditions in tact. They are lovely people, well liked and function quite well in this society. In fact, I'd be sad if they had to leave for any reason. Was that so hard for them to do? I don't think so.
So, a note to any culturally impaired who can actually read this (See: None): LEARN HOW TO LIVE IN THE COUNTRY YOU ARE IN OR GET THE FUCK OUT. We want you here, but only if you aren't going to be a prickly son of a bitch shut in.
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