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Entry: Two New Myth-Busting Books Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/two_new_myth_busting_books#5136 Post contents: Andrew said to me: "If you haven’t noticed general differences in identity and personality between races then you must live in a very homogeneous place." I lived in China for the past five years, and lived in a mostly Black part of Philadelphia during my college and law school years. I haven't exactly been living in a bubble. And the nut-case Mr Wheeler wrote: "I have been all over the world, lived in Europe" ...so have I, and I've lived in China and Russia too. By the way the Chinese tend to be among the most racist people in the world, which is one of the things which turned me against obsession with "race" even more. The Chinese racists think White people's more hairy bodies are evidence that Whites are less evolved than Chinese. I point out to them that Chinese have flatter noses - like monkeys - and then they grumble and hold their peace. That said, on balance I find most Chinese to be slightly more intelligent than Whites on average (George Kennan said the same thing), and their women are equally beautiful as Whites if not more so. By the way, Taki's blog is the wrong place to bash non-whites (such as East Asians), as Taki is a Japanophile whose boat is named "Bushido". And Wheeler wrote: "and some politically correct Judeophile Marxist American is going to tell me that there is no such thing as race?" ...I am to some extent a Judeophile, as all Christians ought to be since Jesus and Mary were Jews. I have been a personal victim of political correctness, several times. And don't you dare call me a "Marxist", after I've spent the past five years in China OPENLY telling my Chinese law students (most of whom were Communist Party members) that Marx was full of shit. Sir, you might "walk the walk" of anti-Communism, but I've literally "talked the talk", IN a Communist country, in public. And you wrote: "The Word of God uses race and ethnicity" ...no it doesn't. The Word of God used words in other ancient languages for which our modern terms of "race" and "ethnicity" are very poor translations, because the Modern Age Western concept of "race" did not exist when the Bible was written. And you asked, "Who are you John Ball, God?" No, but funny that you ask, because whenever one of my Dad's late-adolescent students would say "Oh God" in his class, my Dad would wink and reply, "Not yet, I'm working on it." HA! :-) "Or are you one of those Vatican II socialist christians?" I have never hypocritically claimed to be a perfect Catholic. (Does any such person exist?) My inclinations are more on the border between high church Anglicanism and traditional Catholicism. That said, just yesterday I attended a Latin Mass here in Australia, a delight for me because for the past five years in China I was not allowed to attend any true Roman Catholic Church. I know enough Latin to know that the word "race" was not mentioned in that Latin Mass. Occam's razor tells me, QED, that "race" is not essential to Roman Catholicism. Sent at: 2008 05 16