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21st International Olympiad of Informatics Opens, In Bulgaria and Online
Kostadin Vodenicharov writes "The International Olympiad in Informatics is considered one of the most prestigious programming contests in the world. Currently the 21st IOI is being held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria (which was the country that also hosted the 1st IOI), from 8th to 15th August. High school students from all over the world have gathered to put their programming skills to the test. Everyone else who wishes to participate can do it in the online contest which will run in parallel with the real one and will present the same tasks to be solved. The competition itself is going to take place on Monday 10th August and Wednesday 12th August from 9:00 to 14:00 EEST (UTC+3)."
And what's a "wack hypercolor t-shirt" anyway?
Was yours rad?
That's why he called you a wussy nerd. Comprehendes?
I was swayed by all the sources you site
apart from the lack of sources, it sounds like complete crap. Aside from the fact that IQ tests generally favor people with an education (pretty low standard of schooling in Africa). You neglect to mention that most of it was colonised and arbitrarily divided up between the powers for hundreds of years. These arbitrary divisions have obviously led to open warfare (over potentially very rich resources) between clans/tribes/ethnic groups. This is the same process the Americas went through, Asia went through and Europe went through but much much earlier in their histories. Also your example of Japan doesn't mention the Marshall plan which was put in place for precisely this reason (Also, Japan was very technologically advanced even before the war, this kind of knowledge doesn't just disappear). Africans may be destroying their own societies, but this is in no small part due to meddling and encouragement (either implicit or explicit) by the more "developed" nations. As the ost recent examples see CHinas involvement in with Sudan (oil) and oil interests in Nigeria. The british began studies on the Hutu/Tutsi people in order to establish physial differences between them (circa 50s, we all know how that panned out). French meddling in Algeria? American interests in Libya? Suez canal crisis? Russian involvement in Angola? Many many tragedies in Africa have been precipitated by involvements of Western powers. Assuming that the (dubious) claim of lower intelligence is actually true, there are many many reasons why progress is retarded in Africa. Also, on a side note, IIRC there was a "study" by some scientist that said that Africans had a thicker skull than white people which accounted for their smaller brain size/lower intelligence. This was debunked by proper research, but I still hear it often quoted by idiots....
Your point is moot. Europe has been having wars for probably thousands of years. The last major one being around 50 years ago. Or how about the more recent example of 1990 and 2000, where the Yugoslav states were at war. The last one being between America and Serbia. Where the Americans destroyed amazing amounts of infrastructure, and a Chinese embassy. Those countries are all doing superbly well compared to _any_ African country, apart from South Africa which is usually the exception. This one example is proof of nothing, really. But neither is your statement that African countries are constantly at war. So there must be other reasons they are performing badly.
It's all about the culture in that country that affects that countries performance. It baffles me when no one wants to admit this. It's not racist to admit that different cultures have different effects on their members.
White racism is also at fault for creating mass media caricatures like Steve Urkel and Carlton Banks as black kids succeeding in society due to their overwhelming non-blackness.
For every one of those "racist" examples that happen in media, there are at least 20 that poke fun at white people. As corny as this may sound, people need to rise above other peoples' stereotypes of them. They need to embrace it as what it is and make their own path. Sadly, right now, all I see african americans doing is pimping hoes and slapping bitches; and yapping on a microphone about it as if it's something to be glorified. With that in mind, their kids' performance at school should be no surprise to anyone.