Race

Race

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  RaceLesson 1Unit 1Ethicsand Religion
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  What does Racemean?Race is a difficult concept to define.It is used in many different contexts:Defining different animals within a speciesDefining different Human groupsThere is no question that human beings are diverse and that there are different cultural groups…A Human race is a group of people who perceive themselves and are perceived by others as possessing distinctive hereditary traits.However, the socially constructed ideas that surround race have led to racism
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  Races in humansare arbitraryThe physical and cultural features used to define humans races are random. Ex) Red-haired people are not considered a different raceThese two babies are twins. Are they a different race?
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  Race is asocial constructionHumans like putting things into categoriesHuman races were categorized by a) physical appearance, genetic similarities b) language, culture c) Living area, place of originThey also liked to classify which race was better than another. This stems from scientific racism.
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  Scientific racism Whenhumans began categorizing animals, and the word race was starting to be used, different groups of humans were considered inferior to European white people.Scientists are people too. Their findings reflected their socially embedded beliefs that some humans were inferior to white people.
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  LinnaeusLinnaeus created thefirst taxonomy. A taxonomy is the classification of organisms into groups based on their similarities: physical and (in the case of humans) cultural traits. Linnaeus decided to rank human races: 1) European (White) 2) Africans (Black) 3) Asians (Yellow) 4) American Indians (Red)* This sort of classification did not stop with Linnaeus.
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  BlumenbachHe followed inthe footsteps of Linnaeus.He found a “perfect” skull in a place called caucus, and assumed that it must have been of a white person. He believed that as people moved, they degenerated from the Caucasian race. He changed the names of races, some of which are still used today. 1) Caucasian (white) 2) American Indian 3) Ethiopians 4) Mongolian (Asian) 5) Malay (Australian)
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  Samuel George Mortonand Robert knoxhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSHZkXEQTqQ