[MCP] parents vs. environment

[John Lindsay]

Whew!
 
I get so damn tired of the ways white racists find to make new arguments out of research that was LONG AGO FOUND TO BE FAULTY.....by people like Stephen J. Gould, etc.
 
No one believes this mess but those....receptive to racism.
 
No one is born "a good fit"....or "already knowing how to do something."
Everyone is taught. 
 
Other research indicates that children of prominent individuals throughout history frequently fail to surpass what their parents were able to achieve. In other words, for example, the offspring of some of the world's greatest inventors....did not achieve at or at a higher level than their parents.
Based on the research you cite, these children should have achieved at or at a higher than their famous inventor parent.
 
 
Two, how closely related is the research you cite to Darwin's "survival of the fittest?!"
It's exactly the same racist argument.....which is another element of the extreme right-wing movement that spawned "The Bell Curve." 
 
Rather than providing poor families with what they need to help their children, the powers-that-be would rather spend it on research like what you cite below....in order to support the primary argument of "The Bell Curve: "these people are a race, and therefore it is a waste of government money to try to change them."
 
 
John L. 
 
> From: cooljewls9 at hotmail.com> To: mcp at edchange.org> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:43:16 -0400> Subject: Re: [MCP] parents vs. environment> > I recently read an article discussing that genetics has more impact on the > development of a child than the environment; that although the parents are > part of the environment, that the child's genetic disposition and innate > qualities can either "fit just right" or "react negatively" with the > enrivonmental stimuli (be it parents, or the physical environment)... 25% > of the brain is developed at birth, working only from the genes. And while > I know that an additional 65% of the brain is developed by age 3, I am > wondering which has more of an impact on the child's identity and > self-esteem. For instance, if a child is of mixed race biologically, but is > raised by parents of only one race, will the people raising the child have > more of an impact on the child's development than the set of genes and > characteristics predetermined at birth?> > Thank you for your thoughts.> Julie Seda
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