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Originally Posted by mycorrhizae
Saying that there's definitive proof that physical attributes are the cause of differences in outcomes among racial groups is empirically false. Cuz there's not. Black guys aren't genetically predisposed to be better at sprinting and long distance running, that is false and based on racial stereotyping.
see: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-14679657
Asians perform better in standardized testing because East Asian immigrants place outsized influence on academics as a whole. This is disregarding that most Chinese/Japanese/Korean immigrants nowadays are upper class due to immigration screening.
I'm not disagreeing with u cuz "durr im SJW and u triggered me" you're just spewing a bunch of bull**** stereotypes w/o putting any thought into what the explanations are.
So why is it then that East African athletes (Kenyan and Ethiopian) dominate in distance running, but West African athletes (Nigeria, Cameroon, Senegal, Mali etc) and their descendants or partial descendants in the USA, Canada, The Caribbean and Europe dominate sprint events?
Could it possibly be because the former are in general smaller and slighter in build so better suited to long distance running and the latter are in general bigger and of more muscular build so better suited to explosive energy events such as sprinting?
(Add to this Mo Farah, a British athlete of Somalian ethnicity, again in East Africa, a multiple Olympic champion at distance events, and again of small and slight build)
Or is all of the above something that I have imagined for the last 40 years and that is about to be corrected or argued against by a modern day liberal thinker.
The article you link is partly wrong because West African countries have had good sprinters, perhaps not Olympic medal winners, but athletes that have made Olympic finals in sprint events, whereas East Africans have not featured in sprint event finals, nor have white athletes, with one or two occasional exceptions if you go back quite a few years to the 1980s and earlier when athletics was more elitist than it is now.
P.S. The BBC are well known to be left wing liberals.
Last edited by SageDonkey; 07-21-2018 at 10:15 PM.