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    The global dominance of white people is thanks to the potato

    Some say raisins, I say potatoes. Some say milk is racist, I say potatoes!

    THE GLOBAL DOMINANCE OF WHITE PEOPLE IS THANKS TO THE POTATO

    In his economic masterwork The Wealth of Nations, the great Scottish economist Adam Smith reveals himself to be a deep admirer of Irish poor folk. Or, more specifically, their preferred food, potatoes.

    “The chairmen, porters, and coal-heavers in London, and those unfortunate women who live by prostitution, the strongest men and the most beautiful women perhaps in the British dominions, are said to be, the greater part of them, from the lowest rank of people in Ireland, who are generally fed with this root,” Smith wrote. “No food can afford a more decisive proof of its nourishing quality, or of its being peculiarly suitable to the health of the human constitution.”

    Smith had struck on a connection little recognized even today: that improved labor productivity, surging population, and outmigration were thanks to the potato.

    This phenomenon wasn’t confined to Ireland. As The Wealth of Nations went to press, across Europe, the potato was upending the continent’s deep demographic and societal decline. Over the next couple centuries, that reversal turned into a revival. As the late historian William H. McNeill argues, the surge in European population made possible by the potato “permitted a handful of European nations to assert domination over most of the world between 1750 and 1950.”

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    Potatoes are racist confirmed.

    Really though, it was all about luck, geography, and beating everyone else to the punch. Whites, Asians, and Blacks all had there empires and advanced civilizations at a point in time, and they all had the same barbaric lust for blood and conquering. Someone had to win out, and this just happens to be the way it all played out.

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    Yep, damned potatoes beat out corn, rice and wheat.
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    damned Irish and their potatoes...................lol
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    Bah white people just suck
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    Quote Originally Posted by Common View Post
    Bah white people just suck
    lol Attachment 21494 Some liberals be like!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    Some say raisins, I say potatoes. Some say milk is racist, I say potatoes!

    THE GLOBAL DOMINANCE OF WHITE PEOPLE IS THANKS TO THE POTATO
    LOL it's due to being among the first out of the stone age and learning the skill to kill in mass numbers first.

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    Quote Originally Posted by donttread View Post
    LOL it's due to being among the first out of the stone age and learning the skill to kill in mass numbers first.
    It's likely that the Greek and Germanic preference for close combat, which came to characterize the European way of war, has a common prehistoric source.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Xl View Post
    Potatoes are racist confirmed.

    Really though, it was all about luck, geography, and beating everyone else to the punch. Whites, Asians, and Blacks all had there empires and advanced civilizations at a point in time, and they all had the same barbaric lust for blood and conquering. Someone had to win out, and this just happens to be the way it all played out.
    They also fought very differently. It's primarily a matter of culture.
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    I don't buy the potato theory. For example, South America has better food sources such as quinoa and the sweet potato. I chalk European ascendance up to geography. European geography is much more favorable to economic growth than South America, or Africa and Central Asia for that matter.

    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    Some say raisins, I say potatoes. Some say milk is racist, I say potatoes!

    THE GLOBAL DOMINANCE OF WHITE PEOPLE IS THANKS TO THE POTATO
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