Emma wrote on Mar 9^th, 2017 at 2:52am:


Good God, no!  Never!  Emma, you should be ashamed for even thinking that!   

Postmodern Trendoid III wrote on Mar 9^th, 2017 at 4:41pm:


Tsk, tsk, a biological determinist, CW?  Really?   

Valkie wrote on Mar 9^th, 2017 at 6:00pm:


Your Islamophobia is showing again, Valkie.  Stop it or you'll go blind!  Tsk, tsk.   

Gordon wrote on Mar 9^th, 2017 at 8:41pm:


Define how a "culture" "develops", Gordon.   Indigenous culture was as developed, if not more so than any other stone-age group on Earth.   They had their creation myths, they had their ceremonies and dances.   Exactly as did every other stone-age culture.  Why do you assume that they had to be something other than what they were?

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They are people who deserve to develop themselves, Gordon.  They don't need you continually sneering at them for not being what you want them to be.   

Brian Ross wrote on Mar 9^th, 2017 at 10:40pm:
Aboriginals are racially unique and science supports this. You really are a slow learner Brian,. Arguing against racism and arguing against racial differences are 2 different things. There is no argument that Aboriginals are not racially unique and you just make yourself look under educated by arguing the opposite.

The environment affects how we behave. For e.g. an instrumental factor in the development of early urbanization was a food surplus. The agricultural revolution, as a result of the domestication of certain animals which did not exist on the Australian continent, led to a greater productive capacity in agriculture. The food surplus then led to a division of labour, and urbanization, which then led to writing, etc.

The Australia and American continents didn't have cattle. African had cattle but the tropical diseases affected the cattle so much that they were hardly effective. This prevented the Africans from having the capacity to create a food surplus and thereafter urbanized societies. [/quote]

so how did the aztecs, maya and incas develop farming, crops, bridges, roads, urbanization, pyramids etc? i don't deny the environment plays a part, often a very big part, but you don't even have humans without biology. forget the far-leftists and their screeching of 'biology = nazism'. think about it objectively.
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They developed farming, crops, bridges, roads, urbanisation, pyramids, and so on because they were situated in the right place at the right time when such things could be developed, CW.   Why did the British develop stone circles?  Why did the Indian civilisations develop crops?  Why did the Asians develop music?  Nothing to do with biology, all to do with circumstances.    [/quote]

Interesting to compare domestication of animals across cultures. In South America, they may not have had critters of the bovine variety, but they certainly had Llamas for carrying goods, lets not forget.
In Australia..?  there were no animals that could fill that role. The aboriginal people have managed to survive for tens of thousands of years in an environment we could not have lived in. What the basic simplicity of their lives meant, before the white man, was that their energies were on a whole other level.
I think that is why the euros are so hard on the aboriginal people.

Why?  Because, in the essence of life, the aboriginals of Australia have / had achieved a singular near perfect symbiosis with their environment. So.. in Australia..? the aboriginals made a real enduring culture, in the toughest of circumstances.

We are in fact in awe of the realities and richness of their supposedly simple lives.
We have basically destroyed their world, but they still continue.
Good on them.. they show much more of the 'right stuff' than any jerk on a keyboard. 

Brian Ross wrote on Mar 9^th, 2017 at 10:33pm:


if you follow the discussion rather than interjecting like a twit then you'd see that is not the case.

Auggie wrote on Mar 9^th, 2017 at 11:40pm:


Yes we both agree that fundamentally human hardware is not a factor.

The thing I find particular funny is the way their culture is elevated to what it simply isn't. 

Fish traps are described as aquaculture.
Trading with the guys over the hill is called export.