Do u think that people have the need to seperate themselves so they socially construct racial dividers to determine a superior or inferior race??????
2006-09-30 10:53:27 · 7 answers · asked by coopchic 5 in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
Need? No. Though that hasn't stopped humans from doing it anyway...
I imagine it results from old tribal thinking, passed down through generations. There was a percieved need to determine who you were responsible for feeding and sheltering and who you were not responsible for. Hence, the concept of "us" and "them". "Us" we nourish and nurture, "them" we don't.
The concept of race would have sprung from that, with the idea of "superior" and "inferior" races as a more recent abstraction of the old thinking.
2006-09-30 11:10:32 · answer #1 · answered by Kya Rose 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, race is a social construct.
2016-05-17 15:04:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, in much the same way that men have and often still do socially construct women as inferior in order to feel themselves to be superior beings,so they construct other races as inferior.
We need to challenge these social constructions and replace them with language which constructs all people as equals. As it is language which carries the power of the constructs eg mankind needs to be humankind; fireman...firefighter etc This may seem trivial but is actually the only way to true equality.
2006-09-30 11:43:25 · answer #3 · answered by pol 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think that race is just the invention of some group of people who decided that they were better than someone else. If you put different raced babies in the same room or places and let them play and grow up together, they will not even have an idea of being different, that is, unless someones idea of 'separate' races is introduced. I don't think people have the need to separate as to race, I think that the way society is right now people sometimes have to do it to stay alive.
2006-09-30 13:53:54 · answer #4 · answered by Jay 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because each race has their own culture. And there is no such thing as a inferior or superior race. Time changes, and each race becomes the next rich arrogant society.
2006-09-30 11:06:28 · answer #5 · answered by Audy K 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If it wasn't race that created the division then it would be something else. So no I don't think that it's purely racial. For instance Jews and Palestine, Tutsi and Hutu tribes both of Africa, conflict is just human. Where there is no race difference there is class difference.
2006-09-30 14:03:44 · answer #6 · answered by po8t1 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You forget group psychology. Our tendency to separate ourselves is not socially constructed. In group-out group differentiation is easily seen from our evolutionary past. Think on the hunter- gatherer life style of the Pleistocene, to the dehumanizing of the enemy in today's world.
2006-09-30 15:03:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋