01-17-2010, 12:39 AM
[quote name='HareKrishna' date='03 January 2010 - 08:13 PM' timestamp='1262529345' post='103288']
I did came whit this list and reflect my personal opinions.
My theory is that tropicals are mostly religious fanatics or to say different,very religious people.Thats could be acceptable if they didn't convert to biblical terrorist religions.
Bible belt is a minority even in US(30%) and US is the most religious white country.While tropicals are over 90% Bible belt type of guys.
Civilization appear among tropical yes,but there was an agricultural civilization not an industrial one.Industrial civilization is clearly ruled by temperats(europeans,east-asians). The cold climate made it harsh to adapt tropical plants like cereals.
Even so ,civilisation did exist in Europe(just to name monolith constructions which are usually older then asian ones) .Tropical civilisation was a palace culture ,meaning that tropical people were forced to please their brutal rulers whit art,harems,crafts.
While pyramids may have think that they mean culture ,think that common egyptians weren't very happy to cary heavy stones in order to please the absolute king(pharaoh).Independent by nature,europeans didn't accept to be bullied by their rulers to do such constructions.For this reason ancient europeans may look barbarians.
In conclusion ,religios fanaticism,especially biblical one ,is today a mostly tropical phenomena. We see today Japan,China,Russia,Europe mostly whit non-dogmatic,not very religious people and for that reason free from fanaticism(mostly).
http://hypnosis.home.netcom.com/iq_vs_religiosity.htm
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I am not sure this is true. Probably these ideas are first peddled by Euro centric sociologists. Europe , Japan and china all had all types of excesses, including cannibalism, religious fanaticism, poverty, crime. You name it. Have you heard of crusades, where even the English travelled all the way to Jerusalem. Have you heard of poverty during the 1700's and 1800s in europe. Europe was filthy in the middle ages, that is why plague destroyed most of their lower class population.
European Kings were as despotic as any other. European church was as brutal as Islam or any other religion, remember the Spanish inquisition, the massacre of Jews etc.
Japan was brutally poor in the 1700's ruled by their emperor. If you think, modern Europeans are reformists, then what is capitalism, where a large majority toils to produce riches for a few rich oligarch's ( read MNC's ). The Europe we see is a finished product, that has evolved and become very prosperous and more orderly. Other countries need time to catch up.
I think only an ignorant mind can come up with such sweeping generalisations.
- Regds,
Krishna
I did came whit this list and reflect my personal opinions.
My theory is that tropicals are mostly religious fanatics or to say different,very religious people.Thats could be acceptable if they didn't convert to biblical terrorist religions.
Bible belt is a minority even in US(30%) and US is the most religious white country.While tropicals are over 90% Bible belt type of guys.
Civilization appear among tropical yes,but there was an agricultural civilization not an industrial one.Industrial civilization is clearly ruled by temperats(europeans,east-asians). The cold climate made it harsh to adapt tropical plants like cereals.
Even so ,civilisation did exist in Europe(just to name monolith constructions which are usually older then asian ones) .Tropical civilisation was a palace culture ,meaning that tropical people were forced to please their brutal rulers whit art,harems,crafts.
While pyramids may have think that they mean culture ,think that common egyptians weren't very happy to cary heavy stones in order to please the absolute king(pharaoh).Independent by nature,europeans didn't accept to be bullied by their rulers to do such constructions.For this reason ancient europeans may look barbarians.
In conclusion ,religios fanaticism,especially biblical one ,is today a mostly tropical phenomena. We see today Japan,China,Russia,Europe mostly whit non-dogmatic,not very religious people and for that reason free from fanaticism(mostly).
http://hypnosis.home.netcom.com/iq_vs_religiosity.htm
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I am not sure this is true. Probably these ideas are first peddled by Euro centric sociologists. Europe , Japan and china all had all types of excesses, including cannibalism, religious fanaticism, poverty, crime. You name it. Have you heard of crusades, where even the English travelled all the way to Jerusalem. Have you heard of poverty during the 1700's and 1800s in europe. Europe was filthy in the middle ages, that is why plague destroyed most of their lower class population.
European Kings were as despotic as any other. European church was as brutal as Islam or any other religion, remember the Spanish inquisition, the massacre of Jews etc.
Japan was brutally poor in the 1700's ruled by their emperor. If you think, modern Europeans are reformists, then what is capitalism, where a large majority toils to produce riches for a few rich oligarch's ( read MNC's ). The Europe we see is a finished product, that has evolved and become very prosperous and more orderly. Other countries need time to catch up.
I think only an ignorant mind can come up with such sweeping generalisations.
- Regds,
Krishna