There is good reason to believe in the, inherent, Intellectual superiority of the Mongoloid 'Race'

CON: I understand what you mean by the "Mongoloid Race" Well just so the readers know as well, when I talk about the "Mongoloid Race" I am talking about East-Asians and the Chinese, Japanese and Korean in particular (since they are the most well known countries of eastern Asia and because there is a lot of data from these countries for both my opponent and I to use). It does not matter where exactly they are situated be in Sydney or Shanghai. But without further ado i'd like to tackle CON's two arguments: 1. CON: naming such race groups is generally considered a subjective and somewhat arbitrary practice […] I wouldn't want to suggest that there is, in fact, such clear distinctions to be observed. I would beg to differ, in the 2004 Stanford Study [1] 3,636 individuals of varying ethnicity from 15 different locations in Taiwan and America were asked to state their self-identified race. Microsatellite markers taken from these individuals produced four major clusters after genetic cluster analysis: __________A____B___C____D Caucasian_1348_ 0___0____1 African____3____0___1305_0 Hispanic___1____0___0____411 Chinese___0____407_0____0 Japanese__0____160_0____0 Other_____1____2___0____9 As you can see only 5 individuals identified wrongly (0.14%) – a tiny fraction, most likely of mixed race parentage but that is mere guesswork on my part; more importantly, in the context of this debate, not a single self identified Chinese or Japanese identified wrongly - further affirming that race, is something where quite "clear distinctions [are] to be observed. " Excluding, ofcourse children of mixed racial ancestry where it would be absurd to expect them to fall into a distinct racial group – but we are debating mongoloids and not children of mixed racial ancestry. So unless you have contrary proof you must admit that there are quite "clear distinctions in race" and that race is not "subjective". 2. CON: there's too many social factors at play, and not enough relevant physiological information, to have opinions on such things. I agree social factors are an issue and it is a plausible hypothesis that east asian parents push their children to achieve academically and that is why they do well. However if we to take away these "social factors" and replaced them with other ones (adoption studies) yet the race IQ hierarchy (Mongoloids at the top end) still persisted then we would know that genetics plays a major role in IQ determination. This has been done with Korean children and white adoptive families [2] and the results are below: Country__Age___N*___Average IQ Belgium__6-14__19___110 USA_____6-14__112__107 * N is the number of participants As you can see from the table their IQs were not detrimentally effected by this - if anything their IQs were bettered (the average east-asian(mongoloid) IQ is 104, the adopted children in the USA averaged 107 and the adopted children in Belgium averaged 110) I, personally, put this down to better nutrition as the average of 104 included results from china and while china is not a third world country by any means it simply cannot compare with nutritional standards in the developed west. Also, as you can see from the link [2] the IQ of 110 is actually for verbal IQ but performance IQ is much higher at 123.5 and the mean IQ is actually 118.7, so if anything I am depressing the scores. And ofcourse an IQ of 118.7, 110 or even 107 is above the average white IQ of 100 which is what you would expect if it was all down to social factors. In short, I have proven that all of CON's points in round one are incorrect. [1] . http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov... [2] . http://www.sciencedirect.com... I would now like to offer some evidence of Mongoloids/(East Asians)'s intellectual superiority (for those who don't only doubt the genetic inherentness of the IQ gap but also the IQ gap itself) measured both in terms of SAT scores and IQ scores 1. The bell curve of IQ for East Asians is situated more to the right (meaning higher average IQ) than whites and blacks. . http://www.udel.edu... 2. They have the highest graduation rates of all the races: . http://www.highbeam.com... 3. Research from about 620 studies confirm the IQ hierarchy - Mongoloids, Caucasoids, Negroids (if you have the time please watch Philippe Rushton's whole talk as he explains this issue more eloquently than I could ever hope to ) . http://www.youtube.com... 4. Asians average 1623, whites 1345 and africans 1276 in SAT scores. . http://www.usatoday.com... 5. There is even talk of reverse discrimination by US's top universities to keep asians out as on average an asian needs an extra of "140 points" more than their white counterparts to get into the same course at the same university . http://www.neatorama.com... . http://hanopolis.com... Ah, the word limit is almost upon me and as I want to give CON a chance to make fresh arguments rather than just attempting to refute all mine I will leave it here for the time being. In summary there is a real IQ gap between Mongoloids and other races that favours the mongoloids and this IQ gap is at least partly genetic.