From: hvu@bcarh729.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Guna Goo Goo)
Subject: Re: Parental Responsabilities
Organization: Bell Northern Research
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 15:25:07 GMT

In article <659@blue.cis.pitt.edu>, babar+@pitt.edu (Jonggu Moon) writes:
|> In article <1992Dec14.135343.20019@bnr.ca> hvu@bcarh729.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Guna Goo Goo) writes:
|> >Facts:
|> opinion
|> >- Members of the majority in our society hold the balance of power.
|> the majority of the people hold blue collar and low white collar jobs
Careful: I stated 'members of the majority' not the majority. It would
         be imprudent of me have I stated the majority.
|> >- Members of the majority in our society are considered standard for beauty.
|> the majority of the people average a 5 on the scale of 1 to 10 in beauty.
|> That is the definition of "average" and "middle"
Careful: If you compare averages do compare the averages of minorities and
         that of the majority.
|> >- Children belonging to the majority have an 'easier' childhood:
|> Nobody is perfect. A very minor fraction of the population is near perfect.
|> The majority have SOMETHING out of place about them... ( their nose,
Strong argument.
|> their hair, their limbs, their nationality, their accent, etc. )
|> >  They have an easier time finding friends.
|> I agree with this one. The average person feels comfortable with 
|> other average people. Nobody likes a perfect person. Many perfect 
|> near perfect people have been killed by other's jealousy.
|> >- Young adults belonging to the majority find better jobs
|> The majority of the population scored around 500/800 in SAT's
|> and have an average G.P.A. of 2.0 out of 4  ( "C" ). 
|> They get average jobs.
Too bad they don't give us the averages of the different minority
groups: black, yellow, red etc... and that of the majority. This
will probably give us more profound insight into the problem.
|> >- Young adults belonging to the majority will move into higher positions 
|> The average person will do mediocre in the battle for survival.
|> Only the most intelligent, creative, ambitious, motivated, richest
|> will attain the highest positions in this dog eat dog world.
True! however the point was that if two persons had equal resources,
the one belonging to the majority will have an advantage.
|> 
|> >Hypothesis:
|> >- Adults belonging to the minority groups tend to seek to mate
|> >  with members of the majority in order to generate offsprings
|> >  with attributes of the majority. In so doing, they are
|> >  giving their offsprings an easier time to mature and a better
|> >  chance to succeed in life.
|> The average person would much rather marry an above average person.
Exactly the point. Then you agree with the hypothesis given the
premiss.
|> >
|> >Some arguments heard:
|> >- Love should be the prime objective of coupling.
|> This is only a very recent (only this millenia) idea. Coupling
|> was to better people's lives, love came later.
|> >- Love will provide the best benefits for offsprings.
|> Love doesn't supply the US recommended daily allowence of vitamins.
|> >- Couples don't think about offsprings when they have relationships.
|> The girl worries about getting pregnant. The guy says "trust me".
|> Later, she becomes pregnant and the guy dumps her for a new girlfriend.
|> >- Define majority, minority blah blah blah
|> majority: any group of people greater than 50% of a population.
|> 
|> >So on and so on
|> and so forth
|> >
|> 
|> - jon
|> 
|> 
Thank you Jon for your input. Your argument was in line with
some of the arguments heard.

I would love to hear your point of view (rather than point-point
discussion) on this hypothesis.