That article wasn't nearly as long as I thought, and I finished it in short order last night. Then I went to Wiki to check on the source. Turns out that both the author (Glayde Whitney) and the magazine (American Renaissance) are notoriously White supremacist. Too bad, because I thought that he made some good points, although I disagreed with some of them. Silly me, I thought that White supremacists were crazy people who rioted in the streets like their counterparts on the other side, and this guy seemed fairly rational.
Ironically, I never did find anything about the racial difference in tolerance for heat and cold, but Uncle Ken seems to have conceded that point, so I don't need to flog that dead horse any longer. Nevertheless, let me just say this about that: One of the symptoms of both hyperthermia and hypothermia is disorientation, so the victim does not always realize that he is in trouble. I'm sure the only reason they told us about the racial difference in the army was so that we could better look out for each other. As for all the other alleged differences, since there is no such thing as a pure race anymore, I agree that we ought to let that one go. I still think it's interesting to study where we came from and how we got to where we are now, but that's no excuse to say that one race is superior to another. They were all superior in their day, adapting to their environments better than other groups that ended up on the ash heap of evolution, but the world seems smaller now, and we're all in it together.
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