tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post1583287556121005866..comments2024-03-29T05:14:33.223-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: What the world will pay forUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-7963347474003625962013-10-03T17:45:13.156-07:002013-10-03T17:45:13.156-07:00I have been in Turkey 20 years ago:
; at the time ...I have been in Turkey 20 years ago:<br />; at the time most Turks look like a cross between a Greek and a Armenian, being white pale or olive skinned most of the times;a sgnificant minoritie was a Baltic apearance (grey eyes, white-pink skin, blond hair, short round head) and some even look full Nordic. So, what happen? - How they became brown?<br />"Arabs are not Turks" - indeed...<br />Some months ago I give a job to an immigrant, a big and strong guy with at least 190 cm and 100 kg, pink skin, blue eyes, very blond, angular face... He was a good worker but can´t speak a decent Castillian, Portuguese, French or English... Only after I see his documents, I understood that he was not Ukranian, but an Arab from Aleppo, Syria... <br /> Iberiannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-30780048588326233172013-10-03T15:57:43.966-07:002013-10-03T15:57:43.966-07:00"I always got the impression that both Steinb...<i>"I always got the impression that both Steinbeck and Hemingway seemed determined to make sure we all understood that they identified more with Mexican Americans than with Americans."</i><br /><br />I love Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday but I never saw Mack and the boys as Mexican, nor the Bear Flag girls.<br /><br />As for that Carlos Joad ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-39374753403872678542013-10-03T14:12:08.929-07:002013-10-03T14:12:08.929-07:00@ Whiskey: "...women make up something like 9...@ Whiskey: "...women make up something like 90% of thriller and mystery readers..."<br /><br />Typical Whiskey carelessness - conflating thrillers with mysteries, when they're very different critters.<br /><br />Alfred Hitchcock understood this better than anybody: mysteries diffuse suspense, thrillers concentrate suspense.<br /><br />So mysteries are mostly a chick thing, while thrillers are mostly a guy thing.vinteuilhttp://occamsrazormag.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-3919419866053487422013-10-03T13:49:47.056-07:002013-10-03T13:49:47.056-07:00@Power Child: Tennessee Williams also had a thing ...@Power Child: Tennessee Williams also had a thing for Latinos - and, more generally, anybody less uptight than WASPs.<br /><br />see *Night of the Iguana*, etc.<br /><br />Much good this did him!vinteuilhttp://occamsrazormag.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-75057581401883182092013-10-03T12:26:27.949-07:002013-10-03T12:26:27.949-07:00Let me tell you who would no way in hell pass for ...<i>Let me tell you who would no way in hell pass for a Turk: Sailer or Derbyshire (Brimelow ?). They must have been taken for English tourists if/when they were in Turkey. So tall and so brightly red under Mediterranean sun, they would have stopped traffic wherever they went; if anyone heeded traffic lights in Turkey, that is. </i><br /><br />You really have no clue what you're talking about.<br /><br />-- JTAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-56402260286026158892013-10-03T11:11:32.016-07:002013-10-03T11:11:32.016-07:00Though neither of them tried to actually pass them...Though neither of them tried to actually pass themselves off as Mexican American, I always got the impression that both Steinbeck and Hemingway seemed determined to make sure we all understood that they identified more with Mexican Americans than with Americans.<br /><br />I'm basing this on books like "Tortilla Flat," "Cannery Row," and "The Pearl" (by Steinbeck) and "The Sun Also Rises" and "The Old Man and the Sea" (by Hemingway), and those are just the ones I've read. Others have titles that lead me to believe they contain similar themes.Power Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13365109338643310492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78503676946870136292013-10-03T09:23:12.185-07:002013-10-03T09:23:12.185-07:00Nothing says authentic like Rigoberta Menchu.Nothing says authentic like Rigoberta Menchu.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09260398531366109345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-25910990690649731672013-10-03T05:46:04.156-07:002013-10-03T05:46:04.156-07:00I don't think Rice's vampires glittered. ...I don't think Rice's vampires glittered. That came later.Cail Corishevhttp://cailcorishev.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-21496778970693756152013-10-03T05:22:51.895-07:002013-10-03T05:22:51.895-07:00Native Americans' appeal has nothing to do wit...Native Americans' appeal has nothing to do with actual Native Americans. There is the romance of the lost cause, the curiosity about the defeated enemy, the connection to American history, etc.SFGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-21470492603369009792013-10-03T01:50:29.612-07:002013-10-03T01:50:29.612-07:00Speaking of ruddy Anglos and vibrantly brown Turks...Speaking of ruddy Anglos and vibrantly brown Turks:<br /><br />> Nobody ever went broke selling brown vibrancy to ultra whitey white people. <br /><br />A detective MUST be an outsider, but need not be brown. Poirot, Miss Marple are not brown. Neither is Sherlock Holmes. Nor "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". But they are all outsiders. <br /><br />I read some A. Christie in my teens. I wasn't ultra whitey white, or whitey white even, and her detectives weren't brown. I, never the less, agree that me buying second hand books shouldn't have made as much money for Christie's heirs as Arjouni made "selling brown vibrancy to ultra whitey white people" or as American tweens buying romances about "ultra whitey white" -AND glittering!- vampires made for Rice (was it?).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-8157197086517242012013-10-03T01:19:02.734-07:002013-10-03T01:19:02.734-07:00>Arjouni doesn't look particularly non-Turk...>Arjouni doesn't look particularly non-Turkish either.<br />He would totally pass, as long as he spoke without a foreign or incongruent local accent.<br /><br />Let me tell you who would no way in hell pass for a Turk: Sailer or Derbyshire (Brimelow ?). They must have been taken for English tourists if/when they were in Turkey. So tall and so brightly red under Mediterranean sun, they would have stopped traffic wherever they went; if anyone heeded traffic lights in Turkey, that is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-46772603087420784902013-10-02T19:55:49.386-07:002013-10-02T19:55:49.386-07:00Nobody ever went broke selling brown vibrancy to u...Nobody ever went broke selling brown vibrancy to ultra whitey white people. peterikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-73034005457328810072013-10-02T18:16:00.741-07:002013-10-02T18:16:00.741-07:00"Whiskey said...
Need I add that women make ..."Whiskey said...<br /><br />Need I add that women make up something like 90% of thriller and mystery readers?"<br /><br />90%? Nonsense. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that women are the majority readership of mysteries. But thrillers in general? Do you imagine that most people who read novels by Tom Clancy or Frederick Forsyth are women?Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-27220622260249034722013-10-02T17:48:37.748-07:002013-10-02T17:48:37.748-07:00Yes, I'd assume that thriller audiences would ...Yes, I'd assume that thriller audiences would skew male. How many women read Tom Clancy?<br /><br />But then again, I don't view the whole world through glasses printed with the words "Girls don't like me abloo abloo", so Whiskey's observations are usually a mystery to me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-28963985463564734652013-10-02T17:26:13.179-07:002013-10-02T17:26:13.179-07:00Need I add that women make up something like 90% o...<i>Need I add that women make up something like 90% of thriller and mystery readers? </i><br /><br />Citation please. Or is this just another one of those things you just spout out?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-29435796128542218792013-10-02T17:19:33.202-07:002013-10-02T17:19:33.202-07:00Very OT:
There is an article in Nature about &quo...Very OT:<br /><br />There is an <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/ethics-taboo-genetics-1.13858" rel="nofollow">article</a> in Nature about "taboo genetics". It mentions the BGI study of the genetics of IQ. They have a poll:<br /><br /><i>Should scientists refrain from studying the genetics of intelligence? <br /><br />Should scientists refrain from studying the genetics of race?<br /><br />Should scientists refrain from studying the genetics of violence?<br /><br />Should scientists refrain from studying the genetics of sexuality?</i><br /><br />I already voted.Glossyhttp://lazyglossophiliac.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-49484197659657287302013-10-02T17:11:12.213-07:002013-10-02T17:11:12.213-07:00Was required to read "The Education of Little...Was required to read "The Education of Little Tree" in the seventh grade. What a misspent youth reading books that 45-yr-old women education professors like rather than the ones I would have liked.MCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-81437181582164070942013-10-02T17:09:32.423-07:002013-10-02T17:09:32.423-07:00J.K. Rowley used her initials because she didn'...J.K. Rowley used her initials because she didn't think that boys would read a book by a female author.<br />Bit delusional, if you think about it.Geoff Matthewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07335872605196107867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-90537765392606150922013-10-02T17:04:09.672-07:002013-10-02T17:04:09.672-07:00"Native Americans have an aura of spiritualit..."Native Americans have an aura of spirituality and mysticism that white people absolutely gobble up."<br /><br />Not any more.<br />Indians are all about casinos now.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-41518165022067269632013-10-02T16:58:54.641-07:002013-10-02T16:58:54.641-07:00Karl MayKarl MayAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-47754540434401271602013-10-02T16:53:45.127-07:002013-10-02T16:53:45.127-07:00Need I add that women make up something like 90% o...Need I add that women make up something like 90% of thriller and mystery readers? Only guys like Brad Thor or the late Vince Flynn write for a masculine readership that does not care about cool, non White ethnicity.Whiskeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01854764809682029464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-82941852902959270262013-10-02T16:47:43.368-07:002013-10-02T16:47:43.368-07:00For awhile, a lot of people incorrectly assumed Ja...For awhile, a lot of people incorrectly assumed James Patterson - the author of the suspense novels featuring black police detective Alex Cross - was black himself. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-10372518574660134192013-10-02T16:25:55.054-07:002013-10-02T16:25:55.054-07:00There was a case in the UK a few years ago of a wh...There was a case in the UK a few years ago of a white Englishman writing a novel as a female Bengali immigrant. As he did this to win a literary prize he was denounced. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-41939432988691897672013-10-02T16:24:13.785-07:002013-10-02T16:24:13.785-07:00Native Americans have an aura of spirituality and ...Native Americans have an aura of spirituality and mysticism that white people absolutely gobble up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com