TimV
Puritanboard Botanist
It's not racist; it's just plain ignorance. It doesn't require church discipline; but perhaps a sound thrashing might help.
I have had numerous dealings with Australian Aborigines and they are as intelligent as any other human being I have met. I think the problem with many western civilised ideals of intelligence pertains to the cultural limitations and stereotypes which the westerners have created. A tribal situation exhibits all the characteristics of organisation and order which are to be found in complex western urban centres. It expresses itself differently and takes a different shape; that is all.
That's simply not true, unless by cultural limitations you mean what those two ethnic groups have have attained. A Lebanese Christian Arab is the richest man on earth. Name me one AA that runs one of the biggest 10,000 companies on earth. What you mean by "a different shape" in Melanesian cultures is a 30 percent mortality for kids under 5. A poor Armenian community can't even imagine that.