Dr James Watson said recently that Blacks have different brains from Europeans.To disagree would be most politically correct.
However Perhaps he is both right and also wrong [wright?]
I believe that brains act as filters of reality - symbolic gateways to different realities, perhaps
If humans live in lands with 2 seasons - wet & dry they would not have the same thought patterns as folks that experience 4 seasons - Spring Summer Autumn and Winter.
Some Rural Africans that I know have no idea what winter is for in their world it is always warm and their gardens produce year round.We on the other hand prepare for a foodless period. We harvest crops and struggle mightily to store them in time before the winter comes. We are compelled by our circumstances to get our act together. Timing to us is vital.
Hence the difference between a good farmer and a poor one is .... about two weeks
Culturally speaking, rural Africans did not appreciate the importance of straight lines for in their more natural world, walls, houses, baskets and pottery are all round. All their paths wind and twist their way throught the countryside.
Nowhere and nothing is ever straight in Nature
Only when a child gets a Western education does the ruler and straight lines appear.Rulers are made in factories and are not whittled from tree branches in an idle moment.
The wooden ruler is the bottom line under this futile,brainless argument.
Some "deep" africans can read the faint traces of game left on the ground days after passing by. They can spot the camoflaged and deadly snakes, high in the trees. They can eat well when the western world would starve.
Testing these gifted people in our terms is squarepegging round holes.
Brains filter different sectors of reality.
A superb sportsman would have all his intelligence programmed into his muscle memory.
His brain would be almost offline.
The good doctor should try to think outside his brain box
The wooden ruler is the bottom line under this futile,brainless argument.
Some "deep" africans can read the faint traces of game left on the ground days after passing by. They can spot the camoflaged and deadly snakes, high in the trees. They can eat well when the western world would starve.
Testing these gifted people in our terms is squarepegging round holes.
Brains filter different sectors of reality.
A superb sportsman would have all his intelligence programmed into his muscle memory.
His brain would be almost offline.
The good doctor should try to think outside his brain box
