@ent3c Consider your Dominican example. The DR produces more great baseball players than anywhere else per capita. Why?
One reason is cultural: in Jamaica they play cricket instead of basketball.
But Mexico was baseball-crazed, and sent many utility players to the big leagues.
@ent3c Why didn't Mexico produce superstar baseball players the way the DR does? LA Dodger scout Mike Brito, who discovered Fernando Valenzuela and recently Julio Urias in Mexico, concluded after decades of searching that Mexicans' legs are seldom long enough.
@ent3c Now, leg length is influenced by both nature and nurture: better diets and other factors can drive up average height, and much of the increased height comes from longer legs.
But Mexico is not starving--it rivals the US for obesity--and life expectancies have almost caught US.
@ent3c But the Amerindians from central and southern Mexico appear to be naturally short.
Interestingly, most Chicanos in US in past tended to be from more Northern Mexico, more European and taller. E.g., Chicano Pancho Gonzales, the best tennis player of late 1950s, was 6'3".
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Both the Dominican Republic and South Korea are enthusiastic about baseball, with citizens of both countries playing in the US major leagues. But there have been vastly more great Dominican ballplayers. Do genes have something to with that?
The average Dominican looks about half black and half white, but on this list of 25 best DR ballplayers, only Bartolo Colon (the least athletic) looks more white than black, and only a few (e.g., Pujols and Bautista) look pretty evenly mixed.
Watching bodycam in regular speed: I thought it was a bad shoot.
Watching it once in slo-mo: it was a good shoot.
Watching it twice in slo-mo: it was a GREAT shoot.
I was completely baffled when watching the bodycam video in real time.
Somebody should calculate how many tenths of a second margin the policeman had to spare to make his choice before the attacker's big knife impaled the girl in pink: well under 1.0 seconds, I'm guessing.
Personally, if I were the Columbus cop in the patrol car, I would have backed up down the street, then called for a helicopter to drop a giant net over all the disputants so we could sort out the bad guys from the good guys at our leisure.
The Twitter corporation has apologized to me for suspending my account for tweeting about how the co-founder of BLM has bought a $1.4 million house in 1.4% black Topanga Canyon, home tom 1970s mellow singer-songwriters:
Here's a screenshot my offending post. (I wonder if Twitter has apologized to suspended sportswriter Jason Whitlock as well?)
Twitter has a Kafkaesque policy of not explaining which rules of theirs your offending tweet has violated. You are just supposed to guess.
As the cover image of Edward Said's "Orientalism" suggests, Said was particularly outraged by European intellectual sex tourists visiting the Middle East to sexually exploit Arab boys and girls.
Anybody ever notice that Michel Foucault was exactly whom Edward Said despised?
Just as I guessed, Palestinian critic Edward "Orientalism" Said didn't much like Michel "Discipline and Punish" Foucault for his sex tourism in the Arab world. In 2000, Said gossiped about possible reasons why Foucault left a job teaching in Tunisia:
Generally speaking, elites take a lot of plane trips. So even at revolutionary sub-Saharan countries' national airlines, they seldom yanked the stick from the hands of white pilots for political principles.
But American elites are getting so high on their own supply that they aren't even phased anymore by the increased chance of plowing into the ground at 400 mph. It's racist to even think that lowering standards to let in more Diverse pilots might raise the risk of mass death.
It's quite possible that blacks have always preyed on Asians as badly as they have in 2021, but the phenomenon was previously just swept under the rug. But some videos went viral this year, and the media stupidly figured they could blame them on Trump or white supremacy.
But it's also possible that there really is a surge in black-on-Asian violence this year.
But would that be due to blacks targeting Asians more than in the past? Or is it merely due to the massive increase in black violence ever since the Racial Reckoning was declared last May?