Is there a connection between Race and Intelligence?
Are some races smarter than others?
Can we even discuss the subject? Should we? What are the advantages and disadvantages of discussing race.
The New Yorker Headline: “The Disturbing, Surprisingly Complex Relationship Between White Identity Politics and Racism”
Misses an important point about white people. It makes the point that being white isn’t necessarily racist. If fails to note that white people usually identify by the country of origin of their last name or of their maternal line or of the several cultures in their background. Said another way, a white American named O’Neill would identify as Irish even though there are other cultures in their background. An Irish last name may belong to an individual who has more German or more French or more Swedish in their background than Irish and the individual would identify with those cultures as differentiated from “European American”.
Next, if there are several cultures in a white American’s background they may identify using several European countries such as Scottish and Italian but hardly any white people consider themselves European Americans. Why is that?
Because many White Americans raised among whites will use the last name as the indicator of their inherited culture or cultures but not as their American identity.
Black Americans have a very different cultural past. They may have a European last name but they and everyone else would know that a black man named Eddie Murphy has zero Irish in his background but Murphy would not know anything at all about the names of the cultures in his background. Murphy would get around that by identifying as “African” and “American”.
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