How many people believe that there is such thing as race?

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http://www.aaanet.org/stmts/racepp.htm


American Anthropological Association
Statement on "Race"
(May 17, 1998)
The following statement was adopted by the Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association, acting on a draft prepared by a committee of representative American anthropologists. It does not reflect a consensus of all members of the AAA, as individuals vary in their approaches to the study of "race." We believe that it represents generally the contemporary thinking and scholarly positions of a majority of anthropologists.



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In the United States both scholars and the general public have been conditioned to viewing human races as natural and separate divisions within the human species based on visible physical differences. With the vast expansion of scientific knowledge in this century, however, it has become clear that human populations are not unambiguous,

"clearly demarcated, biologically distinct groups. Evidence from the analysis of genetics (e.g., DNA) indicates that most physical variation, about 94%, lies within so-called racial groups. Conventional geographic "racial" groupings differ from one another only in about 6% of their genes. This means that there is greater variation within "racial" groups than between them. In neighboring populations there is much overlapping of genes and their phenotypic (physical) expressions. Throughout history whenever different groups have come into contact, they have interbred. The continued sharing of genetic materials has maintained all of humankind as a single species.

Physical variations in any given trait tend to occur gradually rather than abruptly over geographic areas. And because physical traits are inherited independently of one another, knowing the range of one trait does not predict the presence of others. For example, skin color varies largely from light in the temperate areas in "

"in the temperate areas in the north to dark in the tropical areas in the south; its intensity is not related to nose shape or hair texture. Dark skin may be associated with frizzy or kinky hair or curly or wavy or straight hair, all of which are found among different indigenous peoples in tropical regions. These facts render any attempt to establish lines of division among biological populations both arbitrary and subjective.

Historical research has shown that the idea of "race" has always carried more meanings than mere physical differences; indeed, physical variations in the human species have no meaning except the social ones that humans put on them. Today scholars in many fields argue that "race" as it is understood in the United States of America was a social mechanism invented during the 18th century to refer to those populations brought together in colonial America: the English and other European settlers, the conquered Indian peoples, and those peoples of Africa brought in

"As they were constructing US society, leaders among European-Americans fabricated the cultural/behavioral characteristics associated with each "race," linking superior traits with Europeans and negative and inferior ones to blacks and Indians. Numerous arbitrary and fictitious beliefs about the different peoples were institutionalized and deeply embedded in American thought.

Early in the 19th century the growing fields of science began to reflect the public consciousness about human differences. Differences among the "racial" categories were projected to their greatest extreme when the argument was posed that Africans, Indians, and Europeans were separate species, with Africans the least human and closer taxonomically to apes.

Ultimately "race" as an ideology about human differences was subsequently spread to other areas of the world. It became a strategy for dividing, ranking, and controlling colonized people used by colonial powers everywhere. But it was not limited to the "

" In the latter part of the 19th century it was employed by Europeans to rank one another and to justify social, economic, and political inequalities among their peoples. During World War II, the Nazis under Adolf Hitler enjoined the expanded ideology of "race" and "racial" differences and took them to a logical end: the extermination of 11 million people of "inferior races" (e.g., Jews, Gypsies, Africans, homosexuals, and so forth) and other unspeakable brutalities of the Holocaust. "

Well you get the point.


I'm in polls because I wanted to see how many people beleived in race...Thus a pole.

REsearch is research and for one of the answers it is ignorant to say that I'm ignorant for feeling this way as you have no scientific proof for your claim, thus makes you ignorant.

In Canada we don't have "official" papers. If we did I'd check all the boxes(that's a another researched piece apparently we have 1 trillion ancestors which means we all share the same heritage,) or other and write human race.

Freee country= Allowed to preach what I want and you can't make me stop :D

Answer 1

I believe there is a race...it's called the human race. I don't care about skin color or anything like that.

Answer 2

Hmmm, your question is a bit weird to me. genetically of course there is difference between a black person and a white person( not in intelligence though) so it depends on what yo mean by is there such a thing as race. But on the genetical level classification of people depending on some genes is possible and that is how research about the origin of humans done. Through looking for common genes between humans and Neanderthals.

Answer 3

Next time shorten the question.
And yes, there is such a thing as race. It is ignorant to say there isn't. Since anyone can scientifically get blood tests to find out what race you are, there are different races.
Why do you think we all don't look alike? It's because of the different races. If there was only one race, we would all look identical.
Stop preaching about there is only one race. This isn't about viewing people differently because of different races. I don't treat anyone differently just because I know there are different races.

Answer 4

I believe in race! I run in the 100 meter, AND the 300 Meter! :-)

Answer 5

I was once told, that there will only be peace when we only have one race, and that race will be Human Kind.

Answer 6

Yes there is because i know what you are talking about when you say it. As far as their being any difference other than features and skin color, there isn't.

Answer 7

Yup, im four different kinds of native american, spanish, and irish

Answer 8

i dont believe in it i think that there skin is just a sifferetn shade ...darker or lighter,,,, they are the same as i am i will never beileve in it

Answer 9

too much to read..but to answer the question in bold. i do belive there is such a thing as race

Answer 10

I think you should be in the History section.