Oyamada clan (小山田氏, Oyamada-shi?) is a Japanese samuari family group. It can refer to one of five different Japanese clans, including
- One claimed descent from the Taira clan. One famous descendant was the Sengoku period samurai general Oyamada Nobushige.
- One was descended from the Usa clan.
- One claimed descent from the Northern Fujiwara by way of Uesugi Shigefusa.
- One claimed descent from the Northern Fujiwara by way of Onomiya Saneyori.
- One claimed descent from the Northern Fujiwara by way of Kikuchi Noritaka.
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“We cannot think of a legitimate argument why ... whites and blacks need be affected by the knowledge that an aggregate difference in measured intelligence is genetic instead of environmental.... Given a chance, each clan ... will encounter the world with confidence in its own worth and, most importantly, will be unconcerned about comparing its accomplishments line-by-line with those of any other clan. This is wise ethnocentricism.”
—Richard Herrnstein (1930–1994)