...I'm sorry but do you understand that this is a stereotype? It further enforces the idea that many black people with SA struggle in silence. You are going off of information that you probably saw on television or from word of mouth. You, Ticklish Fat Man, are closed minded.
"This shouldn't be an insult." When this came to your mind, you should have reevaluated your entire thoughts on this subject and maybe not submitted an answer at all.
Your answer further shows that you have either (1) not met many black people in your life, (2) don't care to knwo anymore, even when presented with evidence that contradicts your initial thinking, (3) don't care about the subject AND don't want to know anymore, (4) don't care about the subject AND only want to make people think you know about, or (5) all of the above?
For your information, black people aren't that foreign. We live in the same country as you do. (In this case, America.) We see a lot of the same things you do, and a lot of the time are excluded because people "can't relate to us." We like some of the same places that you do. And the mysterious foreign beasts known as black people also happen to be just as susceptible to a host of mental disorders just as white people.
As far as being more naturally socially intelligent, you can look around at the political, entertainment, and other professional realms and see who's succeeding and more present. Minorities tend not to be as present, though are capable of succeeding. I just wanted to shut down that socially intelligent remark, because it's completely idiotic.
I believe people experience things at the individual level and I try my damnedest not to just an entire race on subjects like this. If you look close enough, all racial groups are similar in some respects. I'm tired of people thinking just because I'm black this means I should excel at dancing, singing, sports, and all... Hell, I'm not great at any of them.
Just think before you make anymore idiotic, stereotypical assumptions about an entire group made up of diverse people.
Wow sorry for offending you! Truly I didn't mean to. I am generalizing based on what I've grown up with, and I hope my stance doesn't make black people with SA feel more alienated. This is a condition caused by learned behavior that can happen to anyone, I do see your criticism of my comment there. We are all equally susceptible to mental illness. Though I must say, most of your comment confuses me, as I have no idea where the implied racism came across in what I said. I mean, it hurts that you would say "foreign" and "mysterious beasts" from my perspective.
I do stand by my thinking that black people generally have higher social intelligence than other races. I know this is a stereotype, certainly not a negative one. I believe that were all essentially the same as human beings and that any prejudice is a pathology of the mind. Nevertheless, races evolve differently according to their environments and how they adapted. Can you say that black people don't have higher social intelligence than, say, Asians? (who I'd say have a greater work ethic than other races because of their culture)
You may think that saying these things is bigotry of some sort, but I think there's really no need to ignore that there are indeed differences among races, superficially and in a general sense of course. In no way does such an acknowledgment attempt to create barriers or justify discrimination or anything. It is only pointing out that races have different collective memory passed on genetically. Nothing greater should be read into that observation. As humans we have the same DNA, driven by the same desires and ambitions, but racially we have different ancestry and that only means we carry different evolutionary experiences.
Anyway, I say that black people are more socially intelligent because of my experience. Growing up I was painfully shy, I couldn't talk to people. White kids would ignore me and not care if I existed. It was only black kids who would try to ease my obvious discomfort in the classroom, and they were the only ones who befriended me. If my comment sounded at all derogatory, trust me it wasn't, as they were the ones who helped a lonely kid up and probably saved his life.
Such phenomenon happens to this day, as when I'm walking around, 100% of the time it's a black person who asks me "Are you alright man?", because I'm noticeably scared to be in public and always have a depressive look on my face. They pick up on it and want to alleviate some of my pain because they're more able, in my experience, to sense these subtle signals than white people are.
In regards to professional success as an indicator of social intelligence, in this case I would disagree because black people are still heavily marginalized in American society. They have the opportunity to succeed, but nevertheless, with the drug war and systematic oppression, we are far from being over the hump and into a post-racial society.
Please let me know what any of what I said is inflammatory and offensive to you, because I don't think any of it is, or at least not intended as such. If you knew me, you would know I am pretty damn FAR from being a racist lol.
