Quote:
Originally Posted by lumberjim
as a race, asians are probably smarter than europeans.
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Nope -- there's just a lot more of 'em!
...but the Chinese
are naturally better at music. I wondered, for many years, why all the music classes in my high school were filled with Chinese that just seemed to pick up music without any effort at all. It turns out not to be genetic, but based in language. Their exposure to a tonal language from birth gives them a serious edge when it comes to identifying musical notes. People who are only exposed to English from birth never gain this ability as sharp as they do.
(discovered on
this episode of
Radio Lab)
10-18-2007, 08:17 AM
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