re: #37 Charles

You seem to have a drastic confusion going on between “race” and “culture.” Handshake styles and figures of speech have nothing to do with race. But you yourself identified intelligence and socially acceptable behavior as qualities you DO assign to race.

You didn’t expect to be challenged on that?

Of course I did. But have we in America reached the point where we can once again discuss, if not recognize, the possibility of such differences openly - as, say, Marco Polo or Disraeli did - or must we wallow in self-imposed silence?