Originally posted by inimalist
they might have numbers, but they would be outclassed militarily and economically. If Europe/Russia/America wanted to, they could make East and South Asia vassal states. It would be a killing field, but the mixture of sanctions and military supremency could make the nations these races belong to very weak.
Really? In terms of nuclear power you might have a point, but economically? Japan, China, India, Latin America, the asian tigers and the middle eastern nations toghether could destroy the USA (considering it a white nation as you did), Russian and European economies even worst than the opposite. And besides, who would follow sanctions against all nations on the planet except for usa and europe? They would be the ones isolated and screwed. So, no vassal states, the chinese by themselves could run the USA's economy into the ground as it is today.
As far as conventional warfare is concerned, USA, Russia and Europe would be defeated as well. Only through Nuclear war would they be able to 'win' and they'd lose hundreds of millions and be left to deal with radiation poisioning for centuries to pull that off. A lot of these 'non-white' countries have second strike capabilties. You put too much faith on anti-ICBM shields.
you are far overstating the grain of truth you have there...it is certainly not meaningless when looked at from a psychological viewpoint. Race has played a huge part not only in human society, but in human evolution and cognition
Different races never emerged throughout human evolution, human intracladistic diversity is clinal. Therefore the concept of race, which is a taxonomic categorization, is meaningless to humans from an evolutionary point of view. This is the dominant perception among both biologists and anthropologists concerned with human evolution.
Race as is used in common speech is an artifical incoherent concept whose meaning does not reflect objective reality. The delimitations of a race are arbitrary and determined by whoever uses the term. They can be anything from skin color to religion. The fact that it may have psychological relevance to people who see the world or are seen through racialist lenses has nothing to do with what I was saying about biological races.
Significant hereditary cognitive differences among different 'races'? Is that what you're getting at? I'm extremelly skeptical and yes, I have read Lynn's work.