Chinese people and eyeglasses?
ecky
Is it true that Chinese people rarely need eyeglasses,
because they do some kind of exercises that prevent
deterioration of eyesight?
TIA, eki from Finland
Tienxia
False. In fact it is quite the opposite. Due to the physiological
build of Orientals, myopia is quite prevalent among Chinese.
Please read: http://www.china.org.cn/english/health/227139.htm .
TFK
myopia - rather it states that it is due to behaviour.
"Tienxia" <xan...@mail.com> wrote in message
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False. In fact it is quite opposite. Due to the physiological built of
Orientals, myopia is quite prevalent.
RichAsianKid
Not sure about 'needing glasses', but myopia seems way more common in
Chinese and Japanese. I believe Ashkenazi Jews likewise.
From Wikipedia:
"The prevalence of myopia has been reported as high as 70-90% in some
Asian countries, 30-40% in Europe and the United States, and 10-20% in
Africa.
Myopia is less common in african american and African people. In
Americans between the ages of 12 and 54, myopia has been found to affect
african americans less than caucasians.[41] Asians had the highest
prevalence (18.5%), followed by Hispanics (13.2%). Caucasians had the
lowest prevalence of myopia (4.4%), which was not significantly
different from African americans (6.6%)."
Not surprisingly, it has been known for decades (if not centuries if you
take into account anecdotal observations) there is a correlation between
intelligence and myopia and that such a relationship may well be
pleiotropic:
Exhibit (1)
http://www.springerlink.com/content/v46231h47817786w/
Sanford J. Cohn1, Catherine M. G. Cohn1 and Arthur R. Jensen2 Contact
Information
(1) College of Education, Arizona State University, 85287 Tempe, AZ, USA
(2) School of Education, University of California, 94720 Berkeley, CA, USA
Received: 22 September 1987 Revised: 29 January 1988
Summary The well-established association between myopia and superior
intelligence in the general population was investigated in a group of
intellectually gifted children and their less gifted full siblings to
determine whether the relationship of myopia to psychometric
intelligence is consistent with the hypothesis of pleiotropy, i.e., both
characteristics are affected by the same gene or set of genes. Failure
to find a difference in degree of myopia, assessed as a metric variable,
between intellectually gifted and nongifted siblings would contradict
pleiotropy. A variety of possible causal pathways, both genetic and
environmental, have been hypothesized in the literature to explain the
relationship between intelligence and myopia, and these still cannot be
ruled out. It is theoretically noteworthy, however, in view of the
independent evidence for the considerable heritability of both
intelligence and myopia, that the highly significant gifted-nongifted
sibling difference in myopia found in the present study is consistent
with the hypothesis that intelligence and myopia are related
pleiotropically.
And more recently in 2004:
Exhibit (2)
http://www.iovs.org/cgi/content/full/45/9/2943
Quote: "Nonverbal IQ may be an independent risk factor of myopia, and
this relationship may not be explained merely by increased reading
(books per week) among myopes. An interesting observation is that
nonverbal IQ may be a stronger risk factor for myopia compared with
books read per week."
That is, genetics trumps culture.
(And fyi here's the IQ distribution around the globe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:National_IQ_Lynn_Vanhanen_2006_IQ_and_Global_Inequality.png
)
Tienxia
poster with more detailed answers, so I wouldn't want to deprive you
of that pleasure.
Why don't you answer him, with side notes of your usual China bashing
disguised as CCP bashing.
Have you received a new kiwi from "demorising"? Or is he still busy
helping out with the riots in Teheran?
TFK
I merely pointed out the error in stating that it was physiological - lots
of reading, computer games etc stuff any ones eyes
Duh - get a life
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Tienxia
your frustration, Bum Boy!
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TFK
educated CCp bum boy
"Tienxia" <xan...@mail.com> wrote in message
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Tienxia
your frustration, Bum Boy!
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Tienxia
> In article
> <f1a61256-b8a7-4313-8d22-9466ab66a...@x5g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>,
> pair of morons-
Oh? Make me.
If the noun "moron" were really to be used, you are the one most
qualified to be bestowed the honor. This is an open Usenet group, in
which anyone may express his/her feelings about topics that interest
him/her. Should you find what I write offensive, you may either report
me to Google's Abuse Department, or merely ignore my posts - or even
put my e-address onto your killfile folder and henceforth never again
have anything to do with what I write. However, since you haven't done
either, and yet express your expletive to what we write, you deserve
the title of MORON. BTY TFK is a kiwi, i.e. New Zealander, so he has
every right to post in "the New Zealand social group".
Do you think that your ID of "High Priest" entitles you to determine
what others do or say? To which particular organized religious group
do you claim to belong? Islam?
Komin the almighy fucking failure analyst from Cambodia
> In article
> <f1a61256-b8a7-4313-8d22-9466ab66a...@x5g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>,
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> Tienxia <xan...@email.com> wrote:
You wouldn't want to get involved with this character.You will be
sorry. These uneducated turds from the slum
ghetto of NY has many sidekicks. Believe me, it will be a nightmare
when these turd thugs invade nz newsgroup. Just leave them alone. His
master is rstOwxyz. Becareful, he stole someone else pictures to
inflamme another poster here and hell will break loose
report2009
people in our newsgroup, soc.culture.china. He is a mental ill case.
So be careful.
On Jun 25, 11:05 pm, High Priest <H...@snotmail.com> wrote:
> In article
> <f1a61256-b8a7-4313-8d22-9466ab66a...@x5g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>,
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> Tienxia <xan...@email.com> wrote:
> Take your fucking bullshit out of the New Zealand social group, you
> pair of morons- Hide quoted text -
rst9
> Yeah, this Tienxia guy has been very abusive, he insulted a lot of
> people in our newsgroup, soc.culture.china. He is a mental ill case.
> So be careful.
No one insulted more people in soc.culture.china than abianchen cunt
aka report2009. The mental illness case is on abianchen cunt aka
report2009. She should be in a mental hospital or in prison.
rst9
Cambodia <real_ko...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> You wouldn't want to get involved with this character.You will be
> sorry. These uneducated turds from the slum
> ghetto of NY has many sidekicks. Believe me, it will be a nightmare
> when these turd thugs invade nz newsgroup. Just leave them alone. His
> master is rstOwxyz. Becareful, he stole someone else pictures to
> inflamme another poster here and hell will break loose
Why are you got involved in this, Mighty Mouse? Are you sorry now
that you got involved? What kind of education do you have, Mighty
Mouse. Tienxia and I have much more education than either you or
abianchen cunt. abianchen cunt can't even lie her way out of her own
lies. You can't even understand the information I have provided you.
You certainly are an idiot, an uneducated idiot.
abia...@my-deja.com
infamous dropping, tell us if you still insist that Nazi’s Holocaust
never happened. No wonder BM said you are crazier than he had
previously thought. You are CRAZY!
Rusty Old Fool (rst9 or rst0wxyz), your Maoism is dead, China has
revitalized Confucianism, your so-called "Great Man" Mao has become a
failed man. No one except you follows your failed man Mao as an
example.
abia...@my-deja.com
infamous dropping, tell us if you still insist that Nazi’s Holocaust
never happened. No wonder BM said you are crazier than he had
previously thought. You are CRAZY!
Rusty Old Fool (rst9 or rst0wxyz), your Maoism is dead, China has
revitalized Confucianism, your so-called "Great Man" Mao has become a
failed man. No one except you follows your failed man Mao as an
example.
On Jun 27, 10:17 am, rst9 <rst9w...@yahoo.com> wrote:
rst9
Chinese. abianchen cunt is NOT a guy. abianchen cunt is NOT from
Taiwan. She's a perpetual lying bitch.
rst9
rst9
rst9
Tienxia
retarded Thai whore and pathological liar.
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.china/msg/c18fae0f23508eea?hl=en
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.china/msg/d1971d57ca263a53?hl=en
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.china/msg/eb17f7812691865b?hl=en
Considering the fact that this pathological liar of an ugly Thai whore
has been lying in these newsgroups for nearly a decade and is still
doing so, imagine the fraudulent life that she leads in her real life!
On Jun 27, 9:27 am, "abianc...@my-deja.com" <abianc...@my-deja.com>
wrote:
> > report2009. She should be in a mental hospital or in prison.- Hide quoted text -
Tienxia
retarded Thai whore and pathological liar.
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.china/msg/c18fae0f23508eea?hl=en
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.china/msg/d1971d57ca263a53?hl=en
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.china/msg/eb17f7812691865b?hl=en
Considering the fact that this pathological liar of an ugly Thai whore
has been lying in these newsgroups for nearly a decade and is still
doing so, imagine the fraudulent life that she leads in her real life!
On Jun 27, 9:27 am, "abianc...@my-deja.com" <abianc...@my-deja.com>
wrote:
> > report2009. She should be in a mental hospital or in prison.- Hide quoted text -
Tienxia
> In article
> <a6836a56-7020-40ab-b697-b941ad2e0...@r34g2000vba.googlegroups.com>,
>
> <"abianc...@my-deja.com"> wrote:
> > Rusty Old Fool (rst9 or rst0wxyz), after you finish your daily
> > infamous dropping, tell us if you still insist that Nazi’s Holocaust
> > never happened.
>
Read: http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.china/msg/acec5d5211ac0061?hl=en
Report them to Google's Abuse Department and have them blocked. Don't
just whine.