Fred sed,
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OK Margaret, so the black man you once worked with, who you “sensed wanted to succeed in white culture,†claimed not to have any sense of rhythm; but let’s get back to Tom’s more controversial point—did this black man claim that he was as good as any white guy “at saving for a rainy (or snowy) day,†or that it was a cultural myth that blacks were worse “at saving for a rainy (or snowy) day?
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I don't remember him saying anything about that. But, he and his wife who I became friends with were doing that. They were both working and saving for a down payment on a home.
Fred sed,
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Anyway Margaret, Tom already explained the loss of what you refer to as “genetic rhythmic influenceâ€â€”“you can't play basketball while huddled in your igloo.
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I thought it was a joke. Actually the Inuit I've read about spent quite a bit of time outdoors, even in the winter - and when inside it was often in rather large huts that easily accomodated dancing. Igloos were mostly for temporaray shelters when caught out in a storm etc. I'd highly recommend the film
Atanarjuat; The Fast Runner which is the film version of a very old Inuit story that really does a good job of describing what Inuit life was like before snowmobiles and satellite TV.
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Grand Prix of the Flemish Community for Best Film (2001 Flanders International Film Festival - Ghent)
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Fred sed,
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Shouldn’t you be more curious about Tom’s POV that “whites are better at saving for a rainy (or snowy) day," whether he thinks it’s, as you say, “cultural or genetic,†and if, as you ask, genetic, “what happened in those successive waves of homo-sapien northern and eastern migrations that caused the [gain] of that genetic [saving] influence?
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I don't think I've ever heard of any research that tried to find the "rainy day" gene and/or correllate that with skin color. Do you think this might be a generalized hoarding instinct that whites have or is it just to be used for hard times?
Margaret