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What is the scientific explanation behind blacks being unable to swim?

>> No.11111826

>>11111810
Those are Indians.

>> No.11111834

>>11111810
>What is the scientific explanation behind blacks being unable to swim?

Being able to swim is an unbelievably useless skill to learn for most people.

Almost all first world white people learn to swim, they learn as kids because they play in the water.

Most minority people do not play in water and few learn to swim. Most minorities living on islands do NOT know how to swim.

Swimming is a white first world ability.

>> No.11111837

>>11111834
it's okay tyrone, daddy is just out to get some milk

>> No.11111838

>>11111834
>whites learn to swim because they like swimming
okay I guess

>> No.11111847

>>11111834
The fact that 35 African countries border a sea / ocean and none of their citizens know how to swim is beyond reaching

>> No.11111874

>>11111810
That way, they avoid getting eaten by alligators etc.

>> No.11111876

>>11111810
They can't run fast in water.

>> No.11111890

>>11111810
It's amazing that not one of them can make it back to the shallow portion.

>> No.11111902

>>11111834
>Being able to swim is an unbelievably useless skill to learn for most people.
wtf when will basketball save your life

>> No.11111905

>>11111834
>Most minorities living on islands
What did he mean by this?

>> No.11111920

>>11111810
If you're expecting some biological reason, it doesn't exist.

For black Americans at least, years of segregation deprived large swathes of the black community from accessing public pool and swimming resources. When segregation ended , the damage was already done. Grandparents didn't know how to swim, didn't teach their kids how to swim, actively instilled a fear of water into their kids, and encouraged sports like Basketball instead for recreation. And their kids did the same to their kids and so on.

There's plenty of African fisherman, who presumably know how to swim, so I wasn't even aware the stereotype extended to other blacks.

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>>11111920
>Grandparents didn't know how to swim, didn't teach their kids how to swim, actively instilled a fear of water into their kids

>> No.11111948

>>11111834
>Most minorities living on islands do NOT know how to swim.
I highly doubt people who primarily rely on fishing to feed themselves do not know how to swim.

>> No.11111973

>blacks cant swim
maybe in ameriKKKa, swimming lessons are mandatory in first world countries

>> No.11111984

>>11111834
>unbelievably useless skill to learn for most people.
Never mind that 90% of people live near water

>> No.11111985

>>11111810
All the fresh water in Africa is full of monsters.

>> No.11111989

>>11111902
when the aliens come to conquer the world and make an amusement park out of it

>> No.11111997

>>11111810
Not practicing in young age

>> No.11112016

>>11111810
More muscle mass and heavier bones make it harder to stay afloat.

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>>11111973
YOU'RE WEAK PUNY LITTLE FAGGOT COUNTRY ENJOYS THE BENEFITS OF THE USA'S BENEVOLENCE. WE MAY BE FUCKED UP BUT WE GIVE A SHIT. USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA

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>>11112029
Borrowing from /int/

>> No.11112048

>>11112016
what no it doesn't

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>>11112041
IT'S ABOUT GOD DAMN FUCKING TIEM SRSLY HOW THE FUCK DID WE COME UP WITH SUCH A FUCKED UP MEASURING SYSTEM COMPARED TO THE METRIC

>> No.11112079

>>11112057
you didn't, you just copied the brits

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>>11112079
Oh. Interesting. Thanks /b/ro.

>> No.11112089

>>11112079
Not quite, some of their imperial measures are diferent

>> No.11112100

>>11112048
Of course it does - muscles and bones are heavier than water, so they sink down, unlike fat, (or other tissues, I don't know) that floats.

>> No.11112105

>>11111810
What is the scientific explanation for you shitting up this board with offtopic threads? Is it because you are a pile of shit? Or because you are bored? Either way, youn should kill yourself.

>> No.11112176

They came by ships to begin with

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>>11112041
>50 dkg

>> No.11112281

>>11111810
There's no way this is real. Hahaha.

>> No.11112491

>>11112105
biology is a science anon

>> No.11112500

>>11111810
Those people don't look black to me

>> No.11112505

i mean biologically their bones r denser so its is harder to swim, but they still can swim. thats why u dont really see any black athletes beyond 100m swimming olympics

>> No.11112509

>>11111810
>those desperate retard technique changes like rowing the air, then smacking the water

Holy fuck they really do have room temperature iq

>> No.11112526

>>11111834
Minorities living on islands are called majorities you retard. Reminder: white people with european heritage are around 7% of world population. We are the only minority that can be called as such when we leave our borders.

>> No.11112547

Africa doesn't have water duh.

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>>11111925
i know it sounds like a joke, but it's actually not.
to this day i've had arguments with different parents about why they don't get their kids swimming lessons.
you get these answers like "i can't swim, and i'm fine" or "what if they drown during the lesson"
even though it only takes a couple hours to teach someone to tread water so that touching a pool of water isn't instadeath.

>> No.11112580

>>11111834
NOGGER

>> No.11112827

>>11111810
black here
>lived on an island, surrounded by water by definition
Needless to say, I can swim.

I think this is mostly a murican thing.
Everywhere else, swimming lessons are a mandatory thing in elementary school

>> No.11112967

people who can't swim generally drown because their thinking they can't swim paralyzes them with fear, so even their panicking struggle is half-hearted.

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>>11111847
UFC Jesus digs wells in Africa for pygmies. He also has a bunch of parasites throughout his body and maybe even in his brain. He caught them swimming in rivers in the Congo. Maybe Africans can't swim because they know swimming gets you infested with all kinds of terrible crap.

>> No.11113015

>>11112041
I was in elementary school during the late 70s, We learned all about the metric system and the country was ready to change over. But then Reagan defeated Carter and metric was considered a communist plot so the switch over was cancelled. Doubt this time will be different.

>> No.11113020

>>11111834
Yeah it's fucking useless if you want to die I guess. You seen op's pic? That's what happens when you can't swim.

>> No.11113078

>>11111810
Many blacks are negatively buoyant.

>> No.11113083

>>11113078
Imagine for example, if you got in the water, or ocean, and if you stopped moving you would just sink forever.... The water would be a very scary place.

it's something like 25% of blacks are negatively buoyant, and the rest are pretty close. Many other of our ape cousins are negatively buoyant.

>> No.11113251

>>11112186
had to do a double-take there
the prefix for "tenth" and the prefix for "thousand"
would combine to a prefix for "hundred"

...which would STILL be the wrong unit for what is clearly supposed to be a 500g weight

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>>11111810
Blacks have a higher bone density. The people in the video are "Indians", quotes because they are a mix of the original Indians and the Australian Aborigine.

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>>11111810

>> No.11113283

>>11111847
There's zero reason to swim in the open ocean except for recreation or surviving a shipwreck.

>> No.11113299

>>11111902
Dude watch Escape From LA. That basketball scene could happen to any of us.

>> No.11113410

>>11111890
Each one is being dragged deeper by the other two.

>> No.11113412

>>11112016
They also have proportionately smaller lungs.

>> No.11113431

>>11113283
European sailors in the Age of Sail usually couldn't swim. Most were from cities and swimming didn't help survive shipwrecks long term so they didn't bother learning.

>> No.11113441

>>11112827
>I think this is mostly a murican thing.
>Everywhere else, swimming lessons are a mandatory thing in elementary school
correct
in fact, it's the american way.
>jim crow laws deny blacks access to swimming pools
>bone density genetics explain why blacks don't swim
>jim crow laws deny blacks access to schooling
>intelligence genetics explain lower academic achievement
>post-jim crow residential zoning regulations concentrate blacks into ghettos
>genetics explain the crime and drug addiction rates

>> No.11113671

>>11111847
If you fish on a level beyond recreation you should know how to swim. If you use maritime ecommerce, you should know how to swim. IF you have a navy, you should know how to swim. There are pacific island nations who use fucking blow darts to hunt that know how to swim. No excuses. Superstition is the reason certain demographics choose not to learn how to swim.

>> No.11113686

am i the only one who just immediately knew how to swim? I never had lessons or anything, my dad just told me and i did it even though it was a lame doggy paddle. I learned and self taught myself every method of swimming. Do other people just sink easier or something?

>> No.11113861

>>11112560
>>11111920
>>11111834
Why are you like this? What happened in your life?

>> No.11113872

>>11113412
explains the lack of oxygen to their brains

>> No.11113878

>>11111985
The monsters are just really small and make you shit out your intestines while your limbs turn into inflatable pool toys.

>> No.11114270

>>11113861
Are you asking why I tried to answer seriously and didn't just jump to make up some /pol/ tier bullshit? Autism.

>> No.11114291

I think it has to do with impulse control and ability to reason but IDK.

>> No.11114317

>>11111834
Swimming is not useful for people who use fishing and boats

>> No.11114338

>>11111810
Highest bone density of all races.

>> No.11114392

>>11113686
Babies instinctively know how to "swim" (move through the water in such a manner that their head is kept up in a way that allows breathing) just like they instinctively know how to crawl. It's not particularly hard. I've read articles discussing this and tl;dr if you start young enough that you haven't fully gotten rid of that infantile instinct then you don't sperg the FUCK out and enter the "I'm drowning" reflex.

If you look at the two in OP, they go absolutely bonkers the moment they get above their head, and any reasoning in their brains goes right out the window as pure instinct takes over. They can't simply lean back and take it easy or whatever because they're freaking the fuck out.

>>11112827
I think it's because of the complete lack of family that most Blacks in the US have, where teaching your children certain things and doing certain things are just not done because nobody did them for you. Over two hundred years of the Democrats... well, existing in some for or another, has completely robbed Blacks of really basic notions that White Americans, and absolutely everyone else on the planet, have. You then get this weird crabs-in-the-bucket mentality, despite there being pockets of competence within Black society that trace back very, very far. Like, cooking meals from scratch instead of just buying ready-made food or microwavable dinners is something that most Blacks just... don't do, and any notion of doing it is outrageous because "that's White". They lack these social technologies as a whole, but there ARE pockets of Black society that do do these things "natively", and not just because "I'm wealthier now, so I don't care if I'm 'acting white'".

So you get this weird divide where you'll have dirt poor Mississippi Blacks who swim and have long standing culinary traditions, and urban Blacks who make like twenty times more in income, but don't know how to swim and couldn't cook anything that didn't come from a box with directions on the side.

>> No.11114398

>>11111810
Niger is a landlocked country

>> No.11114406

>>11111834
Retard. Teaching a kid to swim os trivial. Just toss the kid on the water when they are still small. Most people who live near rivers and the sea know how to swim. Only out of touch city folk could be as moronic as you are
Natives do it like that here on Brazil for millennia and it works fine.

>> No.11114460

>>11114338
Then why do their shins snap so easily?

>> No.11114643

>>11111810
Anyone know if this is real? Seems to good to be true.

>> No.11114657

>>11114643
It's fake, who do you think uploaded the video?

>> No.11114672

>>11114657
Whoever found their bodies?

>> No.11114681

>>11111834
jesus christ go back to redit already you massive cocksucker

>> No.11114712

>>11111834
lol

>> No.11114730

>>11111834
Don’t believe this racist dumbass.
>has no source to back up his claim
>says swimming is useless on a planet full of water
>says people that rely on fishing don’t know how to swim when they live on FUCKING ISLANDS and again RELY ON FISHING.

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>>11113861
>What happened in your life?
What happened in yours that makes you're so afraid of hearing the truth?
If just talking about it triggers you this hard, I guess you'd be on suicide watch if you had to actually deal with it firsthand. Get help soon.

>>11114392
>Over two hundred years of the Democrats...
50 cents has been deposited in your account.