Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 20:21:57 -0400
From: Barron <gebarron-AT-InfoAve.Net>
Subject: Re: PLC: Fairness to Faulner


On 8/8/00 1:35 AM George Y Trail 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     

Okay George. We have both made claims that contradict one another
completely, at least in essence. I am not saying that hygiene and diet don't
affect odor so don't go there. I am saying there are major physiologic
differences in races AND nationalities of humans that could clearly account
for differences in odors. I have sited concrete evidence to this affect. you
on the other hand have simply been adamant and forceful.

Again, you are simply wrong and you cannot produce a shred of evidence
otherwise. I am correct in this matter and if pressed would be willing even
to site references to the examples I have given you previously. Even your
suggestion that melanin has no odor is foolish, arrogant and of course
wrong.

As further evidence, which I am sure few will accept but that I will
introduce anyway (this is so base as to seem foolish but I feel it to be
worth mentioning if for no one else but George), I work, all day long with
blacks and whites from the same socioeconomic level, doing the same work and
eating the same regional diet. They smell different, each race with its own
odor, the odor of the whites usually being more offensive in those with poor
hygiene and normal hygiene. I work _very_ closely, intimately you might say,
with these people. In my line of work I use odor as a tool. The differences
in the odor of different races is common knowledge and widely accepted by my
co-workers.

What more do you need George? I given you science, anecdote, logic and
reliable experience. If this isn't sufficient why don't you provide the same
level of evidence as I have to prove your proclamations.
-- 
Barron



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