"The Bell Curve" is one of such books.
It is a starting point:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Curve
The concept itself is nothing new. World War II had much to say on race superiority with some very prominent doctors from Germany and around the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_superiority
2007-05-21 09:28:45
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answered by guru 7
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Hi Nadi
No, there are NO reliable sources on racial superiority. Because the whole idea of "races" is a myth.
There is NO "black race", "white race", "yellow race" or any other race except the "human race."
How "intelligent" people are depends as much as anything on their diet and their education rather than on any alleged "racial" difference.
Same thing goes for physical heath, sporting ability, etc., etc.
The whole notion of "races" and racial superiority arose out of Darwin's ideas on evolution.
The appeal of Darwin's work was that it SEEMED to provide a scientific justification for the way various white nations - especially Britain, France, Germany and Holland - were sending people out to invade other nations (especially in Africa, India, etc.) and exploit their natural resources - and slaughtering anyone who got in their way.
Darwin himself is reported to have said, on being told of the genocide of Tasmanian aboriginals: "It was inevitable."
Francis Galton (Charles Darwin's cousin) took this idea further and tried to provide scientific measures for determining how "superior" or "inferior" EVERYONE was. That is to say, even some whites were regarded as inherently inferior to others.
It was actually British writers who invented the mythical "Nordic Race" (long before the Nazi myth of the idealised "Aryan Race") that so much "white supremicist" thinking is based on.
Though there was no genuine scientific evidence to justify these claims, in America in particular the ideas caught on as a way of persuading politicians to put a stop to the uncontrolled immigration into the US that was happenening around the start of the 20th century and which many white Americans, especially rich white Americans) saw as a flood of second and even third rate "subhumans" who were a threat to everything they valued.
The Nazi death camps were a DIRECT development from the ideas first developed by US organisations such as the Eugenics Record Office (ERO) in Cold Harbor, New York.
2007-05-20 21:21:01
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answered by Anonymous
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A guy named Adolf Hitler led some studies on that kind of thing. He concluded that the "Aryan race" was superior--and then Jesse Owens beat them all in the Olympics.
There have been things written, but all have been disproved (though some ignorant fools will argue that point).
Google "The Bell Curve." That should get you started.
You'll also get tons of more accurate and logical counterarguments in the search.
2007-05-20 17:07:33
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answered by ptstrobl 3
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Ha ha....Nadi do you mean "a reliable source"? If so there isn't any, there was something called the bell curve but it was a bunch of crap. It appears to me that those who are inferior always try to prove their superiority.
2007-05-20 17:56:02
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answered by Michele M 2
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No, there are no reliable tests that will indicate the superiority of one segment of our society over another. I believe ignorance is distributed equally across cultures.
2007-05-20 18:12:59
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answered by Anonymous
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No I think "liable" source is better because in Austrlalia if you go touting racist garbage and trying to incite violence then you are liable to end up in prison.
2007-05-20 18:04:51
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answered by Anonymous
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Try the Klu-Kulx-Klan Inc in your district.
2007-05-20 17:24:26
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answered by Old Timer 3
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INTELLIGENT PEOPLE WOULDNT BUY INTO THAT CRAP THAT EVIL MAN TRIED TO MAKE THE WORLD BELIEVE. I GO TO COLLEGE, AND IVE MET DUMB, AVERAGE, SMART AND HIGHLY INTELLIGENT PEOPLE IN BOTH THE WHITE AND BLACK RACE. AND LETS NOT GET INTO THAT DUMB STEREOTYPE THAT ASIANS ARE SMART....... PLEASE. IVE MET REALLY DUMB ONES.
2007-05-20 18:30:09
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answered by Anonymous
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blacks are way better and have bigger packages
black power all the way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2007-05-20 17:14:04
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answered by Anonymous
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