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I for one consider there to be ABSOLUTELY NO TRUTH in the so-called different "inclinations" of "Ham, Shem and Japhet." Not even as a generalization.
Individuals have different talents and inclinations based on combinations of upbringing, genetics, circumstances, instinct.
There's no way to generalize this out to different "races" (scientifically speaking the concept of "race" is meaningless, we are all the same race. You could classify people by size of the ears, whether or not their eyebrows are joined, shape of their butt, size of their feet, and come up with a dozen new "races".)
The examples cited of white people filling up libraries, Black people spending all their time on the basketball court, and Asian/Native American/Latino people going to church/sweatlodge/temple/mosque 7 days a week, are nothing more than stereotypes that reflect commonly-held ideas about reality, not reality itself.
Go to Brooklyn Library on Grand Army Plaza and you will see it's full of Black people.
Go to any patch of grass in London and you will see a whole heap a white people devoting just as much time to football as Black youths in America devote to B-ball.
India has the full spectrum of religious convictions from total atheism to fundamentalist fanaticism, just like most anywhere else. So does Mexico, or any other place with brown people who I guess are being lumped together as "shem."
CULTURE can help to influence what people are inclined towards- but RACE has nothing to do with it.
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