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   December 7, 2005

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   Truth Whoredare said:

   
   

   It seems the things that ACTUALLY matter THE most to Americans are those that they refuse to talk openly and honestly about the most.

   These include:

   1) One’s salary
   2) Penis size
   3) IQ
   4) Age (for women)

   In short, despite all the idle rhetoric about glorified humanly intangibles, our vis-a-vis valuation of both ourselves and others still boils down to some pretty mundane metrics here. And we know it too – hence are afraid to address such questions in a simple, factual, objective manner.

   The problem with dodging such issues head-on is that Nature abhors a vacuum and in the absence of reliable, available data – wild hyperbolized stereotypes abound instead.

   For instance, many Americans were initially shocked at the arrival of 7’6″ Yao Ming – believing China instead to be literally a nation of midgets. Some even actually asked if he was the result of Communist genetic engineering! Unbeknownst to them, the average difference in height may only be about an inch – and much of that due to less meat and no dairy in the Chinese diet (vs the US).

   This same analogy can be applied to various other racial stereotypes – where grains of truth too often get stretched into noodles of fiction…

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   July 15, 2008

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   the mp3 link is down please check it,
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