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Cultural values. Cultural values are more complex than genetic make up. Part of it comes from generations of values that lead to success of previous generations

Cultural values. Cultural values are more complex than genetic make up. Part of it comes from generations of values that lead to success of previous generations. An overlooked reason I believe there is such a statistical discrepancy of African Americans is that slavery effectively cut the cultural heritage of values from earlier generations of Africans. Slavery broke up families and with that erased generations of successful values that were passed down.

RetpolineDrama 4y ago
>Cultural values are more complex than genetic make up. In the same way that a hologram has greater volume than the 2D film that produced it. "Culture" is the collective expression of shared preferences. Country A has a culture of coffee consumption, because the people there like coffee, because the population possesses an above average expression of gene CR22423 subtly changes how caffeine and dopamine interact leading to increased pleasure seeking. Then some undergrad comes along and makes the point that Country A has a "coffee culture" because it's "more widely available" and "climate factors", when in reality it's the gene driving the behavior that lead to the increased demand which lead to increased cultivation which self-reenforced because Tribe A was hyped up on coffee so they conquered Tribe B and bred their women further spreading the _coffee preference gene_ so that the modern population is now largely descended from the coffee addicts. It's just a simplified example, but the point is that culture is just an abstraction layer running on top of a collective set of shared preferences
s1artibartfast 4y ago
If what you say is true, then the only solution is to build a better performing culture for African Americans. While this is obviously a controversial position, the solution can take multiple forms. One can say that even reverse discrimination is an effort to form a different cultural norms in a younger generation by elevating their economic position

RetpolineDrama 4y ago

>Cultural values are more complex than genetic make up. In the same way that a hologram has greater volume than the 2D film that produced it. "Culture" is the collective expression of shared preferences. Country A has a culture of coffee consumption, because the people there like coffee, because the population possesses an above average expression of gene CR22423 subtly changes how caffeine and dopamine interact leading to increased pleasure seeking. Then some undergrad comes along and makes the point that Country A has a "coffee culture" because it's "more widely available" and "climate factors", when in reality it's the gene driving the behavior that lead to the increased demand which lead to increased cultivation which self-reenforced because Tribe A was hyped up on coffee so they conquered Tribe B and bred their women further spreading the _coffee preference gene_ so that the modern population is now largely descended from the coffee addicts. It's just a simplified example, but the point is that culture is just an abstraction layer running on top of a collective set of shared preferences

s1artibartfast 4y ago

If what you say is true, then the only solution is to build a better performing culture for African Americans. While this is obviously a controversial position, the solution can take multiple forms. One can say that even reverse discrimination is an effort to form a different cultural norms in a younger generation by elevating their economic position