Quote ="Cronus"I'm not sure why people have an issue with Celt's statements - he absolutely right. There are differences between blacks and whites, but it's not quite that simple. In terms fast and slow-twitch muscles, West Africans and Polynesians, for example, have a predominance of fast twitch muscle fibres, whilst it's also been found that East Africans are able to run at a higher maximum oxygen capacity than whites (or West Africans, for that matter). [url=http://run-down.com/guests/je_black_athletes_p2.phpThis article explains it fairly clearly.[/url
People of West African and Poynesian are, therefore, probably marginally more suited to League (and boxing, sprinting, etc), whilst people of East African origin are more suited to duration running. But - and this is key - many studies also conclude that those differences are only noticeable at the top end of any sport, where the marginal split-second differences count - sprinting being the obvious example.
Of course there are differences. To say there aren't is ridiculous. But to label it simply a 'black' or 'white' issue is wrong. Look at Papuans, generally short and stocky, against Kenyans, generally tall and slim. Yet both are black. Are they they same? Suited to the same sports, perhaps? Of course not. The fact is that different ethnicities have difference origins, their bodies had difference climatic and territorial factors to adapt to and overcome and over tens or hundreds of thousands of years different body types have developed. [url=http://www.silkassociates.com/information.php?info_id=8%3EA look at Polynesian origins here.[/url
Too many people are terrified to discuss any differences in race or ethnicity - because there are differences you know, and it's not just skin colour.
Anyway, is League too white? Not at all.'"
Thank you.
to clarify - i was using the term 'afro-carribean' probably wrongly to refer to athletes of west indian (or at a push west african) origin, and was referring to east africans (kenyans etc) as such, because i didn't know how else to differentiate them. And given that most carribean blacks are of distant west african descent... this made sense to me.
your post echoes exactly what i was saying.
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