Alpha is intelligent becoz .....

Hi friends!!

Intelligence in a human being is GOD given thing but do you feel sometimes....

that....

1) People of some regions are intelligent.(Say bengali's and tamilians in India and Isareil people in world)

2)People of some religions are intelligent,some caste are intelligent(Say Jews are intelligent not all mostly,Most of the Brahmins are intelligent(not all)

3)People with certain food habits

4)In India most of the south Indians are intelligent...

Ofcourse there is no scientific reasoning for this but most of the cases its true ..

(Last week there was a debate in CNN IBN regarding south vs north india)

I beleive in some of the above things.I regret i'm not a Bengali or a Tamilian.

Cheers,

Mythili

Mythili, I look at it in a different way.

Several centuries ago, even several years ago, there was limited exchange of genetic material between these regions / religions / castes. Perhaps it made more sense back then, how communities of certain level of intelellect / color / health based on food habits formed and existed.

Lately, with broad minded tolerance/ acceptance for intercaste, inster-religious, inter-regional marriages and propogation of species, the segregation is not so conspicuous anymore.

Outside of the grey matter, there are social aspects of intelligence as well. Globalization will help people break the barriers on a social-intelligence level as well.
With changing times and mix-culture-babies, we are all coming together. In simple words, the rest of us are diluting Bengali and South Indian brilliance u mentioned 😉

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😆 mQT .... u have the knack of diluting grey matter with considerable percentage of humor... hmmm 😉

Hmm..Mythili on giving a second thought i believe in point 3: Food habits... It effects a LOT on people behaviour.. like Fish.. good for heart and brain cells... i remember there was a debate on Almonds at DM and Vishesh told us that it effects a lot on brain cells....

Certain religions and regions are intelligent..this is a concept of the past as people have communicated a lot in recent years... high levels of education, internet for knowledge, etc contributes a lot on the psyche of different cultural people.

BTW, is intelligence inherited? Really?

Originally posted by: MNMS

BTW, is intelligence inherited? Really?

that's a can of worms- nature vs nurture category. it is both those and several more aspects in my opinion.

Not only intelligence but many human traits are inherited from the genes of the person and region..... Also different food items have different vitamins proteins etc so it definitely matters.....
Like the Jues and Marwadis and Sindhis are risk taking people and hence the successful businessman.....

Japanese are very specific to time and quality

Americans are generally high thinking of themselves so are the Indians.....

Indians are considered the best in mathemetics....

So in my opinion, Region, food and Genes are the three most affecting factors in personal traits of human being 😊

Originally posted by: abhijit shukla

I believe in genetic and inherited intelligence. Of course individual IQs cannot be predeicted by race religion or geography but just like athletics,intelligence might be genetically predicted in an ethnic group. I guess Dravidians were smarted than Aryans in general.
There are other cultural and familial infulences also.
For example, Bengalis have not had to occupy themselves with invaders over the centuries like people from Rajasthan, Panjab and Gujarat have. So for centuries they have been able to put more of their energy in to arts and liturature and things aesthetic. It is not a co-incidence that from Jaideo to Amartya Sen Bengolies have had larger than their share of intellects. I was told by a relative who visited Bengal than in Kolkatta even a cab driver will speak proper and pure Bengali. In Gujarat, I have seen college Gujarati professors not being able to pronounce all the consonents correctly.
It is said that German is more condusive to thinking Mathematical theories; French and Urdu are the most peotic; English most scientific.
Then again Kids these days are smarter because of pre-natal vitamins and early childhood stimulations they get.
So there are a number of factors that play part where individual intelligence cannot be predicted but there are general trends. Hopefully cultures will mix and make more talented humanity in future...another reason for not marrying cousins.

So I was not wrong.Even in this IF I find somany bengali,tamil people who are intelligent (most of the times).It does'nt mean People from other places have no brains.

But how far is this scientific???

Cheers,

Mythili

Must say it's quite informative reading the above posts.

Genes inside human cells determine the entire structure of human body (shape, size, traits etc.). The 23 (or 22) pairs of chromosomes contain all the vital information about how human body (including brain) will mature. These chromosomes are passed from parents to children. Therefore the intelligence (brain power) is hereditary.. to some extent. However every part of Human Body is a fantastic machine which needs consistent exercise to flourish and function. That includes brain as well. Strong genes are of no use if the mind is not exercised to the fullest extent. So, in my opinion, the intelligence is a combination of your genetically inherited thinking power (through chromosomes) and constant workout.

I had friends in my university whose brain were like sponge who would just soak it all up and they required very little revision before examination and then there were others who required "hours of mugging" to soak up the same material.

Originally posted by: kabhi_21

Not only intelligence but many human traits are inherited from the genes of the person and region..... Also different food items have different vitamins proteins etc so it definitely matters.....
Like the Jues and Marwadis and Sindhis are risk taking people and hence the successful businessman.....

Japanese are very specific to time and quality

Americans are generally high thinking of themselves so are the Indians.....

Indians are considered the best in mathemetics....

So in my opinion, Region, food and Genes are the three most affecting factors in personal traits of human being 😊

Well said!!! I agree with the most of the points mentioned by you

Originally posted by: abhijit shukla

Things like these are unlikely to be proven scientific.
12 years ago an attempt was made in US with the book The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life. It was mt with a lot of controversy.
Meassuring intelligence of individuals, even with standardized IQ test is not easy. There are a lot of cultural and ethnic variables that play a role. To meassure it in large ethnic groups and then compare those groups based on mean, mode and median is virtually impossible.
And even if some groups were proven smarter than others with statistical significance...so what? A child of a Jewish mother and a Tamil Bramhin can still be an idiot. And even if that child has an IQ score off the chart...so what? It is what she does with that IQ is what matters.
The peon in anatomy department of my medical school who was uneducated and metally retarded (people used to call him walking cadaver as he dealt with them and did not have much more reactionary capacity then them) has contributed a lot more to this world than OBL or Zawahiri who would probably turn our to be geniuses if you were to meassure their IQs.

Very informative.I wonder if Indian political leaders thought all these things and introduced reservation system in India.

Does food effect the brain?????

In Hyderabad we have a famous IIT tutor,who insists his students to take only simple vegetarian food through their study and they follow,almost all get into IIT.

Cheers,

Mythili