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From: <Leslilake1 at aol.com>
It's not
> just blacks and whites in the U.S. - there's also an IQ difference (of a
> rather similar # of points, as I recall from a comparison I read in the
> mid-eighties) between majority populations and "discriminated" minority
> groups such as the burakumin in Japan and the Lapps (in whichever country
the
> Lapps live in!). I remember these two especially because they were
> "non-racial" minorities, i.e., you couldn't tell by looking, as an
outsider,
> that they were "different" from the majority population, but the
comparison
> went through a whole bunch of countries and talked about minority
populations
> I'd never heard of.
This has nothing to do with minority's being at a disadvantage regarding
their access to education, or cultural capital, by a long stretch; with the
majority's eager and active wardens of that access; with structural
inequality that not just reproduces itself but multiplies the difference
when translated into life-chances in a country of unlimitedly diminishing
opportunities like Bulgaria at the moment?
But the French-speaking minority in Belgium was hardly at a disadvantage,
for ex....
Just thinking aloud...