sniper said:
determine? who used that word?
Sometimes geography obviously correlates with physique (though not always, and not always in a straightforward way).
not sure how you plan to deny that.
And how often does it NOT correlate... that's the question you should be asking. Sometimes it's hot on wednesday's, does that mean that "being hot" correlates with "wednesdays"?
**before anyone gets offended, irony alert should be set to sensitive**
Actually, I wanted to respond to the image as well.
I like it that in an attempt to save your argument you reach for a Hollywood movie. It's a movie. In support of your "working theory." Woody and Wesley are actors... not actual basket ball players...
Even better, with this image you now even start to racialize the entire matter. "
White men can't jump" ...
Let's focus on the "meat" of the argument-by-image
Woodley and Wesley are both Americans in that movie (and in real life too!!). Why can Wesley jump higher than Woodley? They are both Americans!?!?! The geographical conditions are more or less identical, but the white man can't jump and the black one, apparently, can... And there are so many more whites in the US! Shouldn't the whites be dominating basketball?
Or does it have something to do with the "blackness", the "African" in Wesley, and the supposed black's "innate physical capabilities"? That's why they (blacks!) are such good runners right?
OMG I just learned that Cancelara can't climb. But, but, he is Swiss!
The geographical conditions in Russia make Russian better chess players; we all now that the conditions in Cote d'Ivoire are detrimental to being good at chess. The conditions in India and China make "those people" excel at math! The soil in India and ****stan is wonderful for cricket, whereas the conditions in New Zealand make them really good at rugby.
We all know that French people don't have cold weather, so they don't have ice to skate on, whereas is in the Netherlands they have lots of ice all the time, so they skate really well while the French suck.
"Blacks" (or if you want to be more specific, Kenyans, or Rwandans, or whatever nationality you want to pick) can't swim (despite their "innate physical capabilities"?), but Australians can, therefore they win all the Olympic medals in swimming.
Chinese and Senegalese can't ride bikes at all, that's why the peloton is dominated by Europeans, and North Americans.
Cubans are crazy good baseball players. Must be the sea breeze in Havana.
but hey I guess you are right, I just saw this movie: