You are just a nasty Duck Mahatma. With a little Bill. If your Intelligence was as great and as big as your Ego, you would be an awesome force, But instead, you can only be a tin pot half Witt. Poor little Duck.

Here is a link to just one researcher that has shown whatever body except people like you have long known.

http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/341.html

The evidence is there for all to see without invoking some silly behind close doors crap.

kenny , thanks for the alan templeton link ,this is the science that must be taught in ALL schools and explained to ALL Australians - now i must go and check the slope of my forehead .

* "Has anybody else noticed that the most voluble racists in these forums are barely literate"?

M duck, I have, but I don't think it’s an educational issue so much as a cognitive glitch in their critical thinking skills.

One can't help but notice that they appear to display an emotional retardation that is totally amputated from any empathic response to common suffering. (besides their own suffering and those they think are their own).

There’s an almost cybernetic style in their writing that prevents them from going beyond particular parameters and triggers in terms of their emotional responses to racism and especially those human conditions that are obviously caused by racism and racialised ideologies.

They appear to fear that if they admit racism exists, they will have to admit defeat. But defeat of what?

If there is a link between literacy and emotional intelligence, it hasn't been explored in formal studies.

Kenny.... did you see what Duck said about you ? he called you 'racist' because he said all the racists are barely literate :)

Actually, I find the diversity of opinion and the passion rather heartwarming.

Redneck, your not associated with anything like BLF or its descendants are u ? hope not, they were a pack of ... *beeeep* with Gallagher and his corrupt cronies.

Pericles mentioned the lack of community these days and our cynicism of our elected 'elders'. Perhaps this forum is one manifestation of our desire for community ? In the old days of Israel, all the issues were sorted out at the City Gate, maybe this is our version ?

On the race issue, I don't have much to say. Associating a particular race with crime seems a bit dodgy to me, and I simply repeat that of the various cultures I've observed and lived among, they all have their local equivalents to our own 'types'. The tough farmer, the versatile mechanic, the cunning sales types. Thats why I felt so at home in what in the beginning was a 'foreign culture'.

Some people are very shy by culture, others are extroverted, some are plain arrogant. For Redneck, it would be a worthwhile exercise to see if any group he suspects of 'pre-disposition to crime' is that way among their own group or just when they are among a bigger community of non 'them' racial groups.

In PNG the "Chimbu" are universally villified by all others as "ratbag crimmo's"

I am once again stipulated to draw your attention to
"Terror by Degree: Knowledge is Power"
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/10/97175.php

That is what rednecks really achieved by themselves, following into footsteps of the Danish king in his “new clothes”…..