> It is their culture to sing and care only about Italian hyper-cars and jewels
Even in this sickening thread, with blatant violations of HN's guidelines on all sides, your comment stands out as a racial slur. That's beyond unacceptable—it's a bannable offense. I hesitate, though, because your other comments make it clear that you're approaching this from a significantly different national perspective (and, as I see below, a different familial one too). Part of tolerance is being able to recognize those differences and navigate them. So I'm going to warn you instead of ban you, even though I have to override both my instincts and a feeling of nausea at reading your comment to do so.
In turn, please extend tolerance to the rest of the community, and understand that what you posted violated the norms so badly that you won't remain welcome here if you do it again.
It's not just studying. I think the author of the original comment meant there might be genetic and/or cultural factors that affect the inteliigence level. And intelligence level usually correlates with income level, although a lot of the related studies might be just measuring "mean temperature in the hospital" which does not provide much of a valuable insight.
It's unlikely that simply formatting your comment as "we can't say X about group Y because it's politically dangerous" is enough to prevent this comment from being flagged as intrinsically bigoted/racist, so you might want to self-moderate.
I thought about that before pressing submit and then I remembered that my mother's skin is "brown", the same as my brother's (I was the "lucky" one between me and my brother who inherited the "white" skin from my dad), that they both (my mother and my brother) have been called "gipsies" because of that, and that I've been thinking for quite some time what differentiates people and people's cultures and their perspective in life. It's not the color of their skin, it's the cultural choices they make (the "read a book part" and not begging in the street for some easy gains), if people want to call me bigoted/racist so be it.
