The melting pot is a lie.

We’re frogs in boiling water.

@Lars Steffensen - I can when I get off of work around 4pm eastern.

That would be much apprciated!

I tried to google the hell out of what i had from the video above

But its either too old, too esoteric or too incorrect to show up anywhere

Fair enough!

But i bet there must be written material somewhere

Language researchers tend to write...... 😃

It’s interesting how languages reflect the latent capacity / potential of some people. Orally passed / non-written languages are reflective of a primitive culture model. Most abstract and special reasoning comes from complex language, or at least one with many different words.

amazin

Yep

There are more descriptive options, reflecting the development of the people attached to it.

Yeah. Key is when you go from sense-driven to planned behavior. Which takes some abstract thinking and rational control.

Spatial reasoning and impulse control, for sure.

That’s why some people will be on an island and build a raft, or sit and eat coconuts until they die.

that must explain why im so gung ho

lack of impulse control

white

pride

Yes - exactly. PFC (rational mind) and limbic system (sensual desire) are mutually inhibiting. So you need a bit of training, culture and experience to get planned behavior up and running.

anglo saxon viking

Good genetics probably helps a lot.

Otherwise, look at Africa. The people have no planned behavior, and with no incentive, they remain inept.

They also mostly didnt need it!

I’m not impulsive at all

But I do plan ahead

Which would go a long way to explain why they dont have it.

Without us feeding them, their populations wouldn’t be as high. Natures checks and balances would take care of their numbers.

Well- SA was mostly empty before the Boers went there...

Poopy: You are 22 or something?

The Boers built it up.

Imported rubber from Brazil.

ok

I just finding hard to accept the idea that we somehow should think that there are no differences in mental ability. It makes no sense in any way.

And language devellopment might be a good way to illustrate the basic developmental steps.

The brain’s development is tied to nutrition, which is tied to the environment. A more rigorous environment that requires preparation, like a region with heavy winters, acts as a natural selector for only the best genes to survive winter.

And people who evolve in those conditions have a larger potential for language, do to the need to express complex situations.

Yeah. Specifically genes that can tilt the balance more towards planned behavior....

Language might actually be a necessary integral part of planning.

Or more broadly symbolic representation, that would give you a talent for language.