Well I’ve taught students from Africa. Not African Americans, actual native Africans. In fact, these African student were from the upper classes in Africa. Their families could actually afford to help them leave Africa and study in a foreign country. I taught a couple outstanding African individuals. Probably the best writer I’ve ever had was a young yet mature African male.
However, as a group, the African students behaved differently from the other students. It was because they came from African cultures. For example, many students were often late for class. Many African cultures have a casual relationship with time. Similar to many South American cultures, being on time is not seen as being important. What’s more important is forgiving people for being late. Because most of these African students had never spent any time in a western “time is money” culture, they had trouble understanding why they should respect my request for them to be on time for classes.
Perhaps you have visited Africa or you have a really good understanding of African history including knowing things like who named Africa. Congratulations.
However your knowledge does not negate my direct experience and study. I have studied and I do teach lessons at University on cross cultural differences and I know better than most that cultural development is a very complex topic. Yes, history does have a determinative effect on culture but it is not the only factor that affects cultural development. Climate, land, agriculture, language, education, group personality characteristics, DNA, morality and other factors are very important to examine in order to understand the racial and cultural differences that exist between different peoples.
Critical race theorists and groups like BLM want to blame everything on history and existing economic & power differentials. And when that doesn’t work they simply engage in lazy, blatant racism against people who have European DNA.
List of some MAJOR differences that you think I have with you?
I never said there wasn't differences between people.
I am saying those differences are mostly superfical in nature.
So what outside of the 10 commandments and the golden rule.
Are you talking about?
And when you said they were late for class.
Compared to what?
How did they check into class?
Was there a system that kept a log of people by race?
Did you go into that system and run comparsion analysis to back up your findings?
First of all don’t accuse me of not being able to take proper attendance. About 30% of the native-African students were usually late, anywhere between 15 to 30 minutes late. Not one or two minutes, 30 fucking minutes. Students of other ethnic groups RARELY if ever came in that late (ie. Russians, Middle Easterners). Before I taught African students, I never had students coming to class more than two or three minutes late. And if a student was ever that late and I asked them why, they had a pretty good excuse like their previous class went late or they were working on an experiment.
If I asked the late African students if they had some excuse (like they were at a meeting or were sick) they never had any real excuses for being late. It was just the way it was and I had to accept it. However, I refused to start class late for them. Did I punish the late students by taking points off their grades? No I didn’t. They were punishing themselves because they were missing material that I was teaching and so they would often end up getting lower test scores.
Now I’m going to accuse you of something outrageous. It’s possible that you don’t understand the African mind because you have too much European admixture in your blood. It’s possible that your brain is more similar to a white American than it is to a pure black African. Africans that come from the sub-Saharan part of Africa have zero percent Neanderthal DNA. If you are an African-American, it’s very likely that you have Neanderthal DNA. Not only that, a lot of self-declared “African-Americans” are surprised to find that their DNA is anywhere between 10% to 50% European.
Now if you’re an African-American with religious, conservative parents and the roll of the genetic dice gave you that European influenced brain, you’re more likely to identify with traditional western values and you’re going to reject traditional African values. And that’s a good thing.
If you have a European influenced brain, you’re literally not going to be able to understand the African brain. It’s possible that comparing me the individual, to you the individual, that there are very few differences between us.
However as a society, when we pack single parent children into urban centers that lack churches we are asking for trouble.
And how many Africans do you know? Have you been to Africa to talk with the people there?
Do you have a complete historical view of what happened in Africa? Where did the name Africa come from dude? Who named it?
Sources Huh…
Well I’ve taught students from Africa. Not African Americans, actual native Africans. In fact, these African student were from the upper classes in Africa. Their families could actually afford to help them leave Africa and study in a foreign country. I taught a couple outstanding African individuals. Probably the best writer I’ve ever had was a young yet mature African male.
However, as a group, the African students behaved differently from the other students. It was because they came from African cultures. For example, many students were often late for class. Many African cultures have a casual relationship with time. Similar to many South American cultures, being on time is not seen as being important. What’s more important is forgiving people for being late. Because most of these African students had never spent any time in a western “time is money” culture, they had trouble understanding why they should respect my request for them to be on time for classes.
Perhaps you have visited Africa or you have a really good understanding of African history including knowing things like who named Africa. Congratulations. However your knowledge does not negate my direct experience and study. I have studied and I do teach lessons at University on cross cultural differences and I know better than most that cultural development is a very complex topic. Yes, history does have a determinative effect on culture but it is not the only factor that affects cultural development. Climate, land, agriculture, language, education, group personality characteristics, DNA, morality and other factors are very important to examine in order to understand the racial and cultural differences that exist between different peoples.
Critical race theorists and groups like BLM want to blame everything on history and existing economic & power differentials. And when that doesn’t work they simply engage in lazy, blatant racism against people who have European DNA.
As I said.
Let's keep it simple.
List of some MAJOR differences that you think I have with you?
I never said there wasn't differences between people. I am saying those differences are mostly superfical in nature.
So what outside of the 10 commandments and the golden rule. Are you talking about?
And when you said they were late for class. Compared to what?
How did they check into class? Was there a system that kept a log of people by race? Did you go into that system and run comparsion analysis to back up your findings?
What was your sample size?
First of all don’t accuse me of not being able to take proper attendance. About 30% of the native-African students were usually late, anywhere between 15 to 30 minutes late. Not one or two minutes, 30 fucking minutes. Students of other ethnic groups RARELY if ever came in that late (ie. Russians, Middle Easterners). Before I taught African students, I never had students coming to class more than two or three minutes late. And if a student was ever that late and I asked them why, they had a pretty good excuse like their previous class went late or they were working on an experiment.
If I asked the late African students if they had some excuse (like they were at a meeting or were sick) they never had any real excuses for being late. It was just the way it was and I had to accept it. However, I refused to start class late for them. Did I punish the late students by taking points off their grades? No I didn’t. They were punishing themselves because they were missing material that I was teaching and so they would often end up getting lower test scores.
Now I’m going to accuse you of something outrageous. It’s possible that you don’t understand the African mind because you have too much European admixture in your blood. It’s possible that your brain is more similar to a white American than it is to a pure black African. Africans that come from the sub-Saharan part of Africa have zero percent Neanderthal DNA. If you are an African-American, it’s very likely that you have Neanderthal DNA. Not only that, a lot of self-declared “African-Americans” are surprised to find that their DNA is anywhere between 10% to 50% European.
Now if you’re an African-American with religious, conservative parents and the roll of the genetic dice gave you that European influenced brain, you’re more likely to identify with traditional western values and you’re going to reject traditional African values. And that’s a good thing.
If you have a European influenced brain, you’re literally not going to be able to understand the African brain. It’s possible that comparing me the individual, to you the individual, that there are very few differences between us.
However as a society, when we pack single parent children into urban centers that lack churches we are asking for trouble.
It sounds like you have a BIAS there. Unless you recorded both white and africans students in a log. Then ran a report.
You really don't know.
Did you record this information in a database? My doctor is from Africa.
When I meet with him for working on his website. He is always on time.
Other Africans I meet with for business. Are always on time.
How do you explain that?