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Project Bantu: refugee youth finding their way through Capoeira Angola : Comments
By Kali Goldstone and Raphael Brasil, published 21/6/2011A holistic approach to refugee resettlement in Australia through Afro-Brazilian culture.
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“……it is highly unlikely that single genes will be found that very substantially increase the risk of engaging in criminal behaviour. Instead, it is far more likely that a large number of genetic variants will be identified....
In other words, no single gene, or any small group of genes are significant, it is much more likely that a large number of genetic variants are responsible.
I laughed myself silly when you posted up that quote about the research only being applicable to the Caucasian" race. People like yourself go into all sorts of verbal gymnastics to claim that all races are equal, yet you were silly enough to submit as evidence, that the scientists themselves are warning that genetic "alleles" applicable to one race providing a causal link between genetics and criminality, may caused by different "alleles" in another race.
But you could not see that, could you? You are so fixated upon your “all men are equal" ideology that you are (as Orwell pointed out in his book “1984”) unable to grasp the contradictions in your own slogans.
I agree that environmental factors are far more important than genetics in determining susceptibility to criminal behaviour. That means that if a person has had good parents who reinforce societal expectations, live in a culture where adherence to social norms is reinforced, even a person with a genetic predisposition to criminal behaviour may not do so. But where the same person has bad parents, who’s cultural values are diametrically opposed to the community, and where popular culture reinforces the message that criminal behaviour is cool, then that person is far more prone to engage in criminal acts than a person with better genetics.