
Originally Posted by
Phill
I'm just hear to learn, so forgive my ignorance wherever it may show up, but aren't Black people supposed to be only stronger in the lower body area? And White, or light-skinned, people are supposed to be stronger in the upper body?
Secondly, couldn't one argue that intellectual superiority could also be more effective in hand to hand combat?
Example... like knowing pressure points, weak spots, etc. etc. Like how it only takes about 10 pounds worth of pressure (less than, i believe) to break one's collar bone, and that a broken collar bone is a sever hinderance since almost whatever way you move your arm requires a muscle pulling on the collar bone.
(With that last statement, i'm not exactly sure how correct it is since i was told it and didn't read it from an actual source. When i feel my collar bone when i move my arm around i can feel muscles moving though, for what that's worth.)
I wish I had even half the knowledge right now that some people on this site show on the subject of anthropology, and other subjects as well. I find it very interesting, and it doesn't help that the place I come from seems to be so... Naive. I've talked to pretty much all of the teachers or other people who seem like vassals of knowledge and none of them seem to really have too much of a clue about physical anthropology. Plus, there is rarely any black people here; off the top of my head i can only name two in our town. I have yet to meet a jewish person, face to face, and realize it. As of what what sub-race most people seem to be around here... Well, there seems to be a lot of people with Finnish ancestory, and there seems to be a good number with germanic blood in them (mainly from germany, parts of england, or sweden.)
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