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Kika Maslyaka
04-29-2013, 10:49 AM
Why stereotypes usually true...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQdhMSEqhfg
and why too much calculations lead you away from the simple truths ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8DNGh126oM
Swish
04-29-2013, 03:28 PM
Was sitting opposite some African students earlier today who said they were going to KFC - I dont know if my mind makes a note every time it happens but talk of fried chicken among the brothers is a common topic.
Also they all wear baseball caps of American baseball/football teams, and for baseball at least its not shown here...they can't all be Milwaukee Brewers fans, can they? :p
Note: not intended as racist, just observations of people around me etc.
Kagatob
04-29-2013, 05:06 PM
Oh most racial stereotypes are quite true in that regard, though when it comes to food it's more of a cultural stereotype. I live in a largely hispanic urban city and work in a largely African-American/Jamaican city.
I'd cite the laundry list of specific examples but the white knight, white guilt troupe would be sadfaced and call me a racist. :rolleyes:
RoKnRuiN1
04-29-2013, 06:30 PM
Lol, this is so funny, because it's so true. I work and hang out with a lot of People from Asia and Japan, and I could go on and on about their stereotypes that I see on a daily basis, haha. I don't think it's racist if it's true.
Kimm Barely
04-29-2013, 07:00 PM
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maksdnCIZx1qbg5pto1_250.gif
Nuk3Afr1ca
04-29-2013, 08:40 PM
It's unbelievable how much asians enjoy freebasing MSG out of water bongs
stormlord
04-30-2013, 09:49 PM
There's a stereotype that woman aren't good at math. Of course, woman are every bit as good at math as men are, but somehow far more men end up in engineering and mathematical disciplines. I think an explanation that's as good as any is girls growing up don't perceive math to be a female-reinforcing thing. It's kind of like how guys won't wear dresses or the color pink. So they lose interest and turn their focus on something else.
Here's a look that explores the topic of differences in the brain between genders:
http://www.howstuffworks.com/life/men-women-different-brains.htm
I remember reading one study where grey/white matter was different in the genders....
Here:
http://www.livescience.com/3808-men-women-differently.html
..........
Psychology professor Richard Haier of the University of California, Irvine led the research along with colleagues from the University of New Mexico. Their findings show that in general, men have nearly 6.5 times the amount of gray matter related to general intelligence compared with women, whereas women have nearly 10 times the amount of white matter related to intelligence compared to men.
"These findings suggest that human evolution has created two different types of brains designed for equally intelligent behavior," said Haier, adding that, "by pinpointing these gender-based intelligence areas, the study has the potential to aid research on dementia and other cognitive-impairment diseases in the brain."
The results are detailed in the online version of the journal NeuroImage.
In human brains, gray matter represents information processing centers, whereas white matter works to network these processing centers.
The results from this study may help explain why men and women excel at different types of tasks, said co-author and neuropsychologist Rex Jung of the University of New Mexico. For example, men tend to do better with tasks requiring more localized processing, such as mathematics, Jung said, while women are better at integrating and assimilating information from distributed gray-matter regions of the brain, which aids language skills.
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Swish
04-30-2013, 10:20 PM
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maksdnCIZx1qbg5pto1_250.gif
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bbhcPNX7Rc
Kagatob
05-02-2013, 04:15 PM
Kentucky (http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/01/us/kentucky-accidential-shooting/index.html?sr=sharebar_facebook)
Swish
05-02-2013, 09:51 PM
Kentucky (http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/01/us/kentucky-accidential-shooting/index.html?sr=sharebar_facebook)
Horrible tragedy. That said, there's an article floating around the internets on abortion rates in New York reaching 41%, which is equally horrible :(
Hasbinbad
05-03-2013, 01:07 AM
itt: white people proving the "all whites are bigots" stereotype
Taryth
05-03-2013, 02:03 PM
That said, there's an article floating around the internets on abortion rates in New York reaching 41%, which is equally horrible :(
I'm not sure how that can be considered a "horrible tragedy". Mothers unfit or unable to raise children should not be bringing them into this world. That's how dysfunctional families happen, which lead to crime. Not to mention the fact that the individuals committing those crimes tend to lead emotionally poor lives, which is something of a torture in itself.
The huge drop in crimerate the 90's saw in the United States was due, in part, to the abortions of a generation of would-be criminals.
Kagatob
05-03-2013, 03:59 PM
itt: white people proving the "all whites are bigots" stereotype
itt: HBB white lol knighting.
Kagatob
05-03-2013, 04:02 PM
Horrible tragedy. That said, there's an article floating around the internets on abortion rates in New York reaching 41%, which is equally horrible :(
http://i.qkme.me/358ith.jpg
EchoedTruth
05-03-2013, 04:20 PM
It's unbelievable how much asians enjoy freebasing MSG out of water bongs
this made me lol all over the place
katrik
05-03-2013, 05:03 PM
I'm not sure how that can be considered a "horrible tragedy". Mothers unfit or unable to raise children should not be bringing them into this world. That's how dysfunctional families happen, which lead to crime. Not to mention the fact that the individuals committing those crimes tend to lead emotionally poor lives, which is something of a torture in itself.
The huge drop in crimerate the 90's saw in the United States was due, in part, to the abortions of a generation of would-be criminals.
A+ agreed.
Swish
05-03-2013, 06:02 PM
Well if the abortion rate is 40% that says a lot about how much dysfunction there is in New York... you guys are in a lot of shit it seems. I can't think that number represents a catch all of "unfit mothers", people need to rubber up and get some birth control down them if they don't want babies rather than dealing with it in abortion clinics :/
Kagatob
05-03-2013, 06:55 PM
Well if the abortion rate is 40% that says a lot about how much dysfunction there is in New York... you guys are in a lot of shit it seems. I can't think that number represents a catch all of "unfit mothers", people need to rubber up and get some birth control down them if they don't want babies rather than dealing with it in abortion clinics :/
Yeah, having both just doesn't make sense does it? :rolleyes:
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