Let me get this straight - The Ancient Romans used copper plumbing, and had flushable toilets..yet Indians in India still shit on the sidewalk?

obongo is a commief*ckwit
and a muzzief*ckwit
we'll be shittin' in the streets here soon.

Nice post but wrong, the people you see in India today must have immigrated there from neighboring islands and lands way after these things you tell. The original civilizators can be dimly seen in the minority remnants of Caucasians there.

It's not that they can't afford but they do not have the motivation and drive and ingenuity necessary to get together and create high civilizations. Those people of the ancient civilization you mention were not the same genetic make up of the current ones, people migrate and with them their knowledge.

Lead pipes I believe.

this^^^^^^^^^^
india may have shit everywhere but america as turds with legs and that even drive cars and post on forums like glp xD

The most important thing to remember, though, is that appearance is a pretty crude indicator of genetics. A few minor changes in a couple genes can result in a drastically different appearance. Biochemistry and physiology (the actual workings of life) are much more complex, so are better indicators of genetic similarity - like a car, you can tell more about it by looking under the hood than simply looking at what color it's painted. When it comes down to biochemistry and physiology, humans across all races are identical, and we have a great deal in common with other mammals (and there are some commonalities to all life, down to the simplest bacteria).

Roman were aware that lead could poison people and pipes in roman cities were designed to constantly flow so water would not sit and react with the lead pipes, also the mineral rich watere would leave a coating in the internal pipeworks so this reduced the possibility of lead poisoning.

You're a moron.

In India, they purchase routers, Internet infrastructure and cell phones to modernize their country, but they still crap on the street. I'm pretty sure plumbing is less of a cultural upheaval then the Internet.

The only tradition they're following is being f-stupid.

Every time I visit Italy I'm amazed at the countless number of awesome fountains and how they're gravity fed and have been that way for over a thousand years. No pumps. No mechanics. Just clever planning and design by truly creative people.

Love the place. The food. The women, Tuscany, castle towns, the Amalfi coast, VENICE(!) with no cars(!) in the early spring during and just after Mardi Gras. Florence with the Academia and the Uffizi with David and da Vinci. All the satanic symbolism in the Vatican and the catacombs. The women. More food. Duomo. Art everywhere. Moto Guzzi (by Lake Geneva in the Italian Alps), Ducati, Aprilla. Did I mention the women?

INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD LEWONTIN
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Richard Lewontin, Alexander Agassiz Professor Emeritus of Zoology at Harvard University, is one of the world's most eminent authorities on human diversity. He has written many celebrated books on evolution and human variation books including Human Diversity, Not in Our Genes and most recently, The Triple Helix.

Does racial difference exist on a genetic level?

Peoples who have occupied major geographical areas for much of the recent evolution of humans look different from one another. Sub-Saharan Africans have dark skin and people who live in East Asia tend to have a light tan skin and an eye color and eye shape and hair that is different than Europeans. So there is this kind of genetic - it is genetic - differentiation of some features of the body between people who live in Central Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, and South America.

And those features, which are geographically determined, were used to erect notions of different races. There's the African race, the Black race, the Yellow race, the Red race, the Brown race, and the White race. And it's mostly skin color plus hair shape and eye shape and so on. That's the everyday observation, that "they" all look alike - and we all look different.

The real question is not whether those differences in skin color and hair form are genetic, because they are. We know that because the children of black slaves brought to North America were the same color as their parents were. The question is what else does that tell us about biological differences? How much difference in other genes beside the genes that are relevant to skin color is there between these major geographical groups?

If we want to use the notion of race in a sensible, biological way, we could only do that if there really were a lot of genetic difference between those groups aside from the superficial differences that we can see. And that's an important issue which we now understand. We understand it because over the years a lot of data were gathered by anthropologists and geneticists looking at blood group genes and protein genes and other kinds of genes from all over the world. Anthropologists just went around taking blood out of everybody.

I must say, if I were a South American Indian, I wouldn't have let them take my blood, but they did. And one of the consequences of that is by the early 1970s, we had a huge amount of information about the different genetic forms all over the world for a large number of genes that had no relevance to those outward manifestations like skin color, but had to do with blood type and proteins.

And when you brought all that together, it became pretty clear that there really were minor differences in the frequencies of the different gene forms between the major geographical so-called races.

Since the 20th century, it's been recognized that there's what's called polymorphism of blood type. There are type As and type Bs and type Os and Rh-positive and Rh-negative and so on in every group in the world. But the assumption was that people in Africa would have a very different relative frequency of A and B and O than people would in North America or in Europe and in Asia.

And what all these studies showed was that that wasn't true. That you couldn't really tell the difference between an African population and a European population and an Asian population by looking at the frequency, the relative proportions of the different blood types. They were essentially the same in all these groups.

That isn't true for every blood type. There are occasional types which are strongly differentiated between populations. There's one blood type called the Duffy blood type and that's very different between Asians, Africans, and Europeans. But that's an exception rather than a rule.

For almost every gene we know, either everybody in the world has the same form of the gene, in which case all human beings are the same, or if there's variation, the frequencies of the different variants are the same relatively speaking, close to the same, in Africans, Asians, North Americans, Austro-Asians, and so on. And only about - well, I estimated 7% of all of human genetic variation could be ascribed to differences between groups, between major races. Anyway, about 75% of all the genes [come in only one form and] are identical in everybody. So there's very little differentiation.

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It's dogmatic religion that hinders progress for the more advanced races, but for the lower races that stage isn't even reached. Most Pacific aboriginal races , of which the majority of the modern indians belong to, were found living in stone age conditions by the European explorers. This is an undeniable fact. These races when taken out of their natural order of things, just like the African negroes, become like a virus on earth. They don't know how to sustain themselves and breed uncontrollably. These races should have never been disturbed or attempted to include in cultural paradigms that weren't compatible to them. Now this will become our downfall.

The only reason India is going to be richer than certain countries in the West soon is because all our factories and call centers are based over there now to avoid paying heavy taxes and to rape the use of cheap workers, earning like 1 pence/cent a day.

The only thing Indians have going for them, are they're more likely to contribute to the future of the planet than their dirty fucking waste of oxygen, Muslim neighbours.

and the women r they good????

Yes, it is pretty amazing. They are called shitteries in India.

That's pretty funny. You can train a cat to shit in the toilet, but not an Indian.

the pipes were made of lead, and so were all of their
eating utensils.

Oh man, you just had to remind me... And the food!

India is nothing more than a cesspool of cavemen that the world has tried to civilize, I put them in the same group as Africans so why even bother.

ROFL this thread is hilarious... did anyone of you ever step out of your moms basements?

i'm surprised that you can even write correct English!

wait delete the word 'correct' in my last post.

just rated this thread 5 stars for the hilarity!

Picular to me! there hindu religon worships bugs, if you step on a bug you might be stepping on a passed away reincarnated relative! if rats want to invade your house you are suppose to let them. Not my religon!!

haha retards, those who say so, are so poor that they have never left their country..
or you are of really low IQ because your daddy did not pay for your education.

most people in india do not use permanent toilets because they cannot afford it, those who can have and use them.
and do you know why we dont use toilet papers? because those who have permanent toilets have a jet washing system, it washes your ass off without touching it, its much cleaner than toilet paper.

and that china smack website, ive seen such thing for the first time in my life, its like someone collected every such pic he could and put it there.

but you know the worst thing here? people are piss and spit on roadsides, and now there are fines for this kind of stuff and as our economy develops such things would disappear.

now you know the best thing here? we treat foreign tourists none less than Gods,
you will find a saying 'atithi devo bhava' on every motor riskshaw, taxi, monuments, roads, where ever tourists come, which means 'guests are gods'
we dont kill foreign students, or treat them like you do, nor we mass kill people at holy places like gurudwara.
we continue to criticise ourself for self-imrpovement, unlike attacking other countries for greed.
not any one can own guns here, because licensing is a very complicated process and unless you are in real danger, u wont get it. even if you get the licence, you will have to spend 'at least' 5 or 6 thousand US dollars for a decent manual handgun(unless you go the illigal way and buy a localy made 200$ gun).

and population, in long, term is only a human-resuorce, but you wont get it.
so get some money and get a college degree, will see you when you come back with a IQ of at least an ape.

religon?? or religion?

this explains it... the people posting here live in dumpster trucks and have nada for education.

ROFL

frankly it is sadder to see uneducated ruffians posting here from USA than those forced by circumstances outside there control to live a life of poverty.