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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 08:27:45 -0500
From: "George Y. Trail" <gtrail-AT-UH.EDU>
Subject: Re: PLC: Fairness to Faulner


Can you point Barron to where he can go to catch up on "race" theory?
He's all caught up in the "semantic" thing, and is of the notion that if
you got a word for it it therefore is scientifically demonstrated. 
Remember Mesomorphs?  

Cheers, 
g

zatavu-AT-excite.com wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 08 Aug 2000 00:35:44 -0500, phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
> wrote:
> 
> >  People who _eat the same food_, sweat as much as others, and bathe as
> >  frequently as the others will smell alike.  People. Makes no difference,
> >  black or white or whatever. By legend Japanese thought that Gajin stank.
> >  Compared to Japanese, they did. The ate different food, and bathed
> >  differently. Eat a Japanese diet and bathe as the Japanese do, and no
> >  human will be discernible as concerns race by scent. Melanin has no odor.
> >  g
> 
> This is certainly true enough. People who smoke and/or drink large amounts
> of coffee have a discernable odor. I have relatives who have this particular
> odor (which I personally find offensive). And as for blacks having a
> discernable odor, I personally have never noticed one distinct to the blacks
> I have known. Of course, that could be due to similarities in diet or the
> similar useage of odor-covering products. I don't know. It would be
> interesting to study if such a study wouldn't automatically be termed
> racist. I find it likely that there is no actual difference in odor, based
> on the insignificant levels of difference in the genes between the races (I
> have said earlier that the difference between the races is actually no
> different than that between any two random people). I can think of no
> genetic advantage to having a change of odor, as a change of melanin content
> would have, and so I would personally predict that there would be no
> genetically-based difference in odor between the races. I too would place
> and difference on differences in diet.
> 
> Troy Camplin
> >
> >  zatavu-AT-excite.com wrote:
> >  >
> >  > Is it not possible that Fauklner only noticed the odor because he
> himself
> >  > was white and did not associate his odor with being odor, having had
> that
> >  > odor from birth? It is like people who have foul body odor but do not
> notice
> >  > it themselves while everyone else is running from the room. Have there
> been
> >  > any black writers who have noticed the odor of white people? .


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