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    Quote Originally Posted by Doc Dutch View Post
    Thanks for proving two things, my Down Under Dingo-lover: 1) You don't understand how beauty is cultural. 2) You don't understand that there's no such thing as race in genetics. Race is a cultural construct based on superficial reasons.

    There's a reason why your little country is a backwater and why people like you and your fellow Down Under dumbasses are wannabe Americans by participating on forums half a world away. American culture is superior to you down under bogans. It's why your women all love Americans and want to come to America.
    Race is a biological construct. Race is genetically determine. That's a scientific fact.

    Aesthetics was a branch of philosophy - the philosophy of beauty. As far as beautiful women are concerned I was referring to their objective, PHYSICAL beauty only.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    I would greatly miss the wonderful things diversity bring to my life, literature, music, language, cuisine, dance and art! It wouldn’t be the same.
    You are aware leftists are for the cancellation of all of Western Civilization, correct?

    Literature? Only what they approve.

    Music? Only what they Approve.

    Musicals? Only what they apprive.

    Art? Only what they approve.

    "The Producers" is on the chopping block, for sure.

    There won't be enough ingredients available to make a lot of Western Civilization dishes.

    You'll take what they give you and like it or die.

    No more Paella. That's only for the elites.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dachshund View Post
    Race is a biological construct. Race is genetically determine. That's a scientific fact.

    Aesthetics was a branch of philosophy - the philosophy of beauty. As far as beautiful women are concerned I was referring to their objective, PHYSICAL beauty only.


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    Proof the Down Under dumbasses are 50 years behind the modern world. I'm surprised you are able to log onto an Interne forum, son. Congrats!
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    Quote Originally Posted by T. A. Gardner View Post
    China has several distinct languages within the country, and close to 60 ethnic and racial groups many of which are not Asian.
    Many ethnic and racial groups in China are not Asian? Can you name a few? Or even one?

    I could be wrong, but I cannot think of a single group in China who is not from Asia. In fact, many of the non-Han groups in China have been in their part of China for longer than the Chinese have been in their part of China. For instance, the Tibetans have been in Tibet for longer than the Chinese have been in Tibet, and are definitely from Asia.

    Quote Originally Posted by T. A. Gardner View Post
    Russia has had pogroms against various ethnicities, the Cossacks being one in particular, Chetnians another
    Pogroms originally referred to Czarist Russia attacks on Jews, usually using Cossacks. It has since expanded to mean attacks on any ethnic group, but would rarely be applied to the Cossacks as the victims. I am trying to figure out what you are talking about. The USSR did not always treat Cossacks well, is that it?

    Quote Originally Posted by T. A. Gardner View Post
    By comparison the US and Canada have been until very recently very homogeneous. Both were overwhelmingly of European origin with small ethnic minorities. In the US Blacks represented the largest minority throughout the nation's history until recently.
    Europe has many ethnic groups, so saying Europeans are homogeneous is silly. What America did do was create a melting pot where ethnic groups mixed, and were all considered one.

    China is trying to do the same, in a much less pleasant way.
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    Quote Originally Posted by T. A. Gardner View Post
    They aren't even close. China has several distinct languages within the country, and close to 60 ethnic and racial groups many of which are not Asian.



    Russia is the same way. Russia has had pogroms against various ethnicities, the Cossacks being one in particular, Chetnians another. Ukranians today and not for the first time.

    By comparison the US and Canada have been until very recently very homogeneous. Both were overwhelmingly of European origin with small ethnic minorities. In the US Blacks represented the largest minority throughout the nation's history until recently.


    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    Colors on a map does not indicate ratios or percentages. Western China is sparsely populated compared to eastern China, and the ethnic minority populations of western China are insignificant compared to the Han Chinese of the east.

    If you want to walk into a State Department meeting and holler that China is basically as heterogenous as Brazil and United States, you need to be prepared to be laughed out of the room.

    Once again, I clearly, explicitly , and conciously wrote that Russia and China are largely homogenous, not universally homogenous.

    91.6 percent Han Chinese is as close to homogenous as most nations on the planet will ever get.

    China Demographic Profile

    Han Chinese 91.6%, Zhuang 1.3%, other (includes Hui, Manchu, Uighur, Miao, Yi, Tujia, Tibetan, Mongol, Dong, Buyei, Yao, Bai, Korean, Hani, Li, Kazakh, Dai, and other nationalities) 7.1% (2010 est.)
    https://www.indexmundi.com/china/dem...%20(2010%20est.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Walt View Post
    Many ethnic and racial groups in China are not Asian? Can you name a few? Or even one?

    I could be wrong, but I cannot think of a single group in China who is not from Asia. In fact, many of the non-Han groups in China have been in their part of China for longer than the Chinese have been in their part of China. For instance, the Tibetans have been in Tibet for longer than the Chinese have been in Tibet, and are definitely from Asia.
    Tuvan and Lli Turks. Uyghurs are probably the best known right now for their being persecuted. They are Caucasian in origin.


    Pogroms originally referred to Czarist Russia attacks on Jews, usually using Cossacks. It has since expanded to mean attacks on any ethnic group, but would rarely be applied to the Cossacks as the victims. I am trying to figure out what you are talking about. The USSR did not always treat Cossacks well, is that it?
    There were several times Russia (or the Soviet Union) viciously repressed the Cossacks over their wanting greater autonomy. They was also a massive reprisal by the Soviets after WW 2 against the Cossacks as many had fought for or were sympathetic to the Germans during the war.
    From the 20's and well into the 30's the Soviets pressed a "De-Cossackization" program meant to strip the Cossacks of their religion and culture. That led in WW 2 to them often siding with the Germans to include formation of a Cossack cavalry division that fought mainly in Yugoslavia.

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    Quote Originally Posted by T. A. Gardner View Post
    Tuvan and Lli Turks. Uyghurs are probably the best known right now for their being persecuted. They are Caucasian in origin.
    The Turks, and Uyghurs come from Central Asia, so would be Asian.
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