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Old 04-06-2014, 04:38 PM
 
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@The OP: If we are only talking about the time period of 1450 and later, then very possibly Whites due to them successfully spreading their languages, culture, et cetera throughout the rest of the world.
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Old 04-08-2014, 05:11 PM
 
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Id say the Indy 500.
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Old 04-08-2014, 05:22 PM
 
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Id say the Indy 500.
That's ridiculous (must remain true to form), F1 is far more successful than Indy.
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Old 04-14-2014, 09:19 PM
 
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From the new structures we're finding that are 60,000 years old, I'd have to say among the homo sapiens, caucasians are more technologically advanced. The youngest race are the asians/mongoloids. The oldest are the africans. But none of either had Atlantis, Minoa, Sumer, etc. But, beyond that, it gets spooky. They have cone headed humanoids that they keep finding from 100,000 years onward. I'll leave that alone for now. Keep in mind, we weren't the only things walking around this planet in the past.

As far and each races adaptability, this is not a mystery. It's in your genome and determining the age of a race is called speciation. There are only so many branches on a tree, and your genome is a measure of how many branches you have- and how many you don't- which tells you how many you have left. That measure tells you how long your race can adapt. At some point you hit a wall. The africans are approaching that wall first.

Genetically you measure 'success' by survival. If that's the case, we're all a success- for now. If you call 'success' mastering your environment techonolgically, it seems that the caucasians were the first to have civilization/language/etc in Sumar. People think Chinese culture is old. It isn't. They are finding nordic kings and queens underneath their fields. They are the newbs.

In any case, homo sapiens aren't the first race, and considering the massive gaps in civilization, I'd say we won't be the last. We're just another notch in a genetic tree that will one day be exterminated. On a long enough timeline the survival rate of everyone drops to zero.
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Old 04-14-2014, 10:29 PM
 
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by the numbers game, it would be hard to argue that Asians (Mongoloid) are not the most successful 'race'. nearly 2/3s of the world's population are of Asian descent. the Asian continent has, by far, the most people of any continent.
Biologically, the numbers game is the only real game, and the only valid measure of success.
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Old 04-15-2014, 07:09 AM
 
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Biologically, the numbers game is the only real game, and the only valid measure of success.

please try and explain this to some of the other posters in this thread, particularly those at the beginning...
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Old 04-15-2014, 12:24 PM
 
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Genetically you measure 'success' by survival.
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Biologically, the numbers game is the only real game, and the only valid measure of success.
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please try and explain this to some of the other posters in this thread, particularly those at the beginning...
By those definitions one could argue that cockroaches are the superior race.
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Old 04-16-2014, 09:29 AM
 
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ok, then i'll spare you the pc blurb and give it to you straight. A topic such as the one you posted can only be best described as "troll bait". Such a topic even if attempted to be discussed in a calm and logical manner will invariably draw all of the "whackos" out of the closet to join in and derail this into nothing but a race baiting, mud slinging, celebration of stupidity and the lowest common denominator. That's assuming the conspiracy theory junkies don't jump in with their own crackpot versions of events and steer the thread completely off-topic before it even gets into the racial supremacy rants.

there are plenty of forums where one could engage in this discussion, but many of them will have an obvious bias. Stormfront is one possible choice, but you will most likely just get lists of why "white" people are superior to all others. Similarly one could jump on an afrocentric site and get lists of why "black" people are superior to all others. Just that simple paragraph right there will most likely draw the ire of some because i compared afrocentrists to white supremacists...

regardless of all of that, you would first need to get everyone to agree on a definition of "succesful" to even have the discussion. Since that in and of itself is impossible, the entire thread is basically over even before it really starts.
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Old 04-16-2014, 09:37 AM
 
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Rs1426654 - SNPedia

Just sayin...
It is quite possible and probable that there are many people considered "black" who carry that gene.
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Old 04-16-2014, 09:41 AM
 
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The British are a race for sure - and the most successful the world has ever seen in just about every aspect. I fail to see where the UK is a problem to the world having given so much - the British made the modern world. The British Commonwealth (the old empire), which covers a quarter of the world's land surface with one third of its population is a great plus, go and ask its members. The two world wars were not the making of the UK - the British gave all for freedom and democracy. You may find a country called Germany had a lot to do with the wars.
Yes, they certainly are. These are two of my favorite British.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J4azQD_JM7...a_Agyeman1.jpg

http://www.studiosystemnews.com/wp-c...idris-elba.jpg
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