Human being origin lies in Africa, then why people are divided on the basis of religion and language ?

Question

See, recently one scientist discoved that all the human beings are originated from South Africa continent and from there our ancestrors roamed all over the world and spread in all continents. then there is racial problems i.e. Negros, Indians, White people.

Answer 1

When humans migrate they adapt to their new environment, and become isolated from other groups of people, the greater the distance between them the greater the difference.
All it takes is time, geography and evolution (more so cultural than biological).

Answer 2

A theorist once told me that humans originated from two locations, South America and Africa, as the only other explaination for some of the ancient human civilizations in South America is that we were more advanced than we assume ancient civilizations used to be. Its far more likely and plausable that humans evolved after the dividing of the continents at two different points of origin.

Genetics and what different societies saw as a mark of 'beauty' has created differences in skin colour. Diet, Environment and Culture has impacted on our lives, so that people who have easy access to fish learn about fish, and people who have access to wheat, learn about wheat. People who have access to rice learn about rice. And what we learn about develops into our early society, a high yield of fish may enventually give rise to the myth or a river god(ess) for example.

These cultural differences trancend into the bedroom, where we see our preferances before us.

Now if we fast forward, we can see the orginal root of the human species, spinning outwards, and changing to suit desires and needs of its society. Up until globalisation, each society were as different as the terrain, produce and weather of these regions.

We are not the same creature we were so many thousands of years ago. Because the colours have been 'pulled' out of the spectrum by expansion and selection.

So its not that we have grown up or become divided that is the problem, the issue is the impact of globalisation and the pulling together of these various cultures and the impact it will have for future anthropologists.

Answer 3

The problem is distance. Those who first wandered beyond major obstacles such as mountain ranges and stayed there started to develop in different ways. They didn't necessarily maintain contact with people on the other side, and as they built up new experiences and faced different challenges new languages started to appear. Over time the language changes; Indo-European languages, for example, all came from one area but were spread around in one wave after another; hence we have Basque and Greek, we have Celtic languages, we have Germanic languages and we have Romance languages in Europe, and all from different times but apparently originating from the same area near the Urals. Another wave put Indo-European family languages in India and the Middle East. Later invasions from Asia planted Asiatic languages in a couple of European countries, muddying the picture.

Religion is another matter. We have documents pertaining to the foundation of at least two major world religions that are easily accessible. Religion is a matter of focusing belief of a group to a common ideal, usually expressed in the form of a hierarchy that then has the ability to wield great power, sometimes after the "founders" are gone. Witness the replacement of much of the teachings of Jesus with those of Mithras when Constantine codified Christianity.

In Japan, however, the codification of Shinto came in response to Buddism's success in persuading animists to a faith with a centralized doctrine. It kept and continues to keep Japan distinct, culturally and politically.

One could thus say that ego is a major reason for the division of people on the basis of religion. Someone draws a line and says "This will define us, who will follow me?" in response to events happening at the time. Those that are successful become transformed through time and other egos into powerful institutions, usually supported (at the time) by the state.

Answer 4

I think what this question fails to take into consideration is the expanse of the human intellect. Along with intellect is emotion, instinct and a sense of self which no other species has. Couple this with our uniqueness as individuals and it stands to reason that we developed different ideas not only about ourselves but the world and the universe which we observe. These different ideas led us on different paths which ultimately divided us. Perhaps the largest and most dangerous division was religion with nationalism a close second. Today we still let these divisions drive us to the brink of our own extinction through war, disregard for damage to our environment and grossly uneven distribution of the wealth of the Earth.

Can we rectify this, surely if we ban religion and nationalism, control our population growth, demand the end of ecologically damaging behavior and see to an equitable distribution of wealth but the bottom line is that none of this is going to happen.

Nature has built into us in the form of our sefishness and self-centeredness the mechanism for our own destruction and we are now living in those days. Not religious end-days but simply the extinction of one species to make room for more species. That, after all, is the purpose of evolution.

Answer 5

It's more complicated than that for sure. This is a theory that humans started in Africa, and the facts seem to support that at this point. However, considering the age of the oldest fossils, I fail to see how different races envolved the way they did that quickly (3-4 million years).

Answer 6

I probalby don't see eye to eye with most anthropologist. Our ape ancestors probably evolved in Africa based on fossil evidence. In the Miocene (5 to 12 million years ago), these apes moved into Eurasia where much more diversification took place. A later species probably moved back to Africa and eventually evolved into Astralopithecines which evolved into the genus Homo (ours). These again moved out of Africa at least 2 million years ago. Just because some good fossils were found in Africa does not convince me that our human ancestors necessarily evolved there. They probably evolved in Africa and Eurasia in my opinion. The Earth's climate varies considerably. Those humans that lived in Africa needed dark skin and hair to protect from the sun. Those who moved north such as Europeans lost most of the melanine and became lighter skinned and bigger to help retain heat. The light skin probably resulted from the need to maximize vitamine D and/or perhaps to not waste resources producing melanine if it wasn't needed. Asians, meaning chinese like asians (orientals), based on language studies, spread from Tibet. The environment of Tibet includes intense sun from the high elevations and cold. This mixture probably resulted in orientals having black hair to protect from intense ultraviolet and a fold of fat on the eye to protect from cold. Those in hot climates generally became skinnier like the Masai of Africa. Those in cold climates became robust such as the Eskimoes. All races are one species and are very closely related and the genetic material intermingled but still the environments they occupy probably continously push the local populations toward the particular characteristic that are ideal in those environments. In other word, races resulted from different environmental factors, yet they are still pretty closely related.

Answer 7

It's worrying to see that the debate of evolution v creation is actually heating up!!
Proof if it were needed that religion is both ridiculous and dangerous.
It demonstrates that many ignorant people will happily believe and fight for what they've been told than take the time to think about things rationally.

Answer 8

Human beings have an absurd ethnic pride. They are proud for some stupid reason of the clans that they originated from. They don't realize that the clan structure was due to violence and reproduction in order to defeat rival clans. This has evolved into racism in the modern world. It used to be colonialism in the prior ages. People don't want to admit that they came from Africa. They are too ignorant to accept this. It is their loss because it means that they have no shortage of foolish and absurd ethnic pride. Name one ethnic tribe that has anything to be proud of...

Answer 9

u . s . a . may, in truth, be the most racist u . s . immediately. each and every thing is in holding with race right here. maximum artwork purposes ask which race class you fall in. the completed project of Obama operating for President is he's a Black guy. If he were white, he may be compared to John F. Kennedy. yet even now, the media is attempting each and every thing they could to sabotage his candidacy. see you later as there are racists and those who hate instead of forming a bond with others, we are able to proceed to wrestle till ideal destruction. regrettably, hate and false impression are too customary contained in the nature of guy throughout the time of the global!!

Answer 10

Its got nothing to do with where we are from, its because we are human beings.

Animals will fight to establish territories or for food, but they very rarely fight to the death.

Unfortunately human intellect gives us the ability to found religion, spread dissent, hate each other.

Bit of a shame really.