How would you rate each "Race" in America based on Darwin’s theory?
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Darwin's theory never said anything about 'survival of the fittest'.  That was a paraphrasing used in some reviews to explain the theory of natural selection, and is quite innaccurate.\n\nFitness in terms of natural selection ONLY means the ability to pass on an organism's genetic heritage to the next generation.  It DOES NOT connote superiority over any other organism.  By definition any organism that successfully reproduces is 'fit'.\n\nMis-applying this idea of 'Survival of the Fittest' to claim that anyone who survives must be superior has been the cause of some of the greatest evils of the 20th century.  The practice of Eugenics, extreme capitalism, Soviet communism and Nazi party doctrine all misquoted and misunderstood evolutionary theory to justify their actions.
1036836
Darwin's theory of evolution isn't entirely wrong. However what does seem wrong is that while it is able to explain the phenomena of selection as well as survival in animals, humans seem to violate the very postulates of the theory.\nAlso darwin's theor talks about sexual selection where the male is generally the better-looking or stronger etc of the two genders and that the female choose the one who is stronger/better looking/can sing better etc...but then there are certain birds where instead of the male it is the female that has the coloured plummange and looks better.\n\nBetter research some specific examples in case you need to prove a point to someone
445011
You made a very good point. We are all varying degrees of the same color, but for the sake of colonization, they had to make distinctions to clarify that "we are better than them, because..." Go do some research on how the whole classification of the races came about. You'll be enlightened by what you find.\n\nRace is just a handy way of justifying/maintaining the power of one group over another, of knowing who to hate. Take what's going on in this country right now, for instance. Attacks on muslims have been primarily, if not totally, on the proverbial "Arab-looking" guys, dark skin, etc. But there are muslims in europe who are regular ol' white guys. Did anyone randomly attack regular looking ol' white guys in the aftermath of 9-11? Nope.\n\nI believe that human beings have an innate need to feel superior to someone else. Some of us are able to surpress that feeling and even understand that we have it. Others have it coursing through their veins. If a radioactive meteor were to smash into the earth tomorrow and turn everyone blue, people with big ears would start trying to dominate people with small ears.
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1. The American Woman: DAR, flappers, the sixties, votes for women, etc.\n2. American or Die- imperialistic america: talk about how americans tend to force their culture on peopel, see ourselves as a dominant race. american indians, the meltinhg pot, immigrations acts through the 1910s to the 1930s to today. like the wall being extended on the border to mexico. this could go into immigration and appreciation of cultures and the atrocities commited against american indians. \n3. The Land of Hopes and Dreams: how we are a spoiled people, corrupting our own "land of freedom" this could lead into discussion on how prosperity inevetibly and eventually leads to corruption. eg: inner city schools, LA, New York, politicians.
1084885
I strongly agree with u on every1 being equal. Seriously, thats how I think. I don't think that the color of a person determines how smart they are, or who they are. However, I think some people are racist because they see difference as something bad.
936686
What does that have to do with science?  This arbitrary rule is the creation of a society and better suited for anthropology than biology.  \n\nWhat do you mean by "scientifically"?  If some guy in a white coat says something, it's true?  \n\nIf you want the genetics view, everyone has an eighth of their autosomal genes contributed by each great-grandparent.  The likelihood of a particular trait being inherited from a particular grandparent depends on dominance and penatrance of the allele.\n\nMales inherit the Y chromosome (~1.5% of the total genome) solely through the paternal line and everyone will have their mitochondrial DNA through maternal decent.  So men have their father's father's Y chromosome and everyone has their mother's mother's mitochondria.  What "race" that makes you depends on the social conventions of your particular tribe.
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Yes.  The Human Race. They can be found all over the world.\n\nThe concept of Race, as dividing humans into separate components, almost different species, came about just before and during the Victorian age, as a reason for subjecting 'natives' to European rule.\n\nWe now know, that Genetically, we are probably one of the least genetically diverse creatures on the earth. Either 10,000 years ago (provided you are not a creationist) we humans were reduced to 1,000 individuals in total.. Either that or 100,000 years ago, we were reduced to 100 individuals.  If a creationist, it is even worse, in as we would have started with 2 individuals, 6000 years ago.\n\nIn any case, there is less genetic difference between the entire human 'race' than there is between two dogs born of the same litter from the same dog and bitch.  There is more genetic diversity within one troop of chimpanzee than there is within the entire human population.\n\nThe entire concept of race, is completely and utterly wrong, unless you look at us as a whole.  The only separate races, have died out long ago.  The Neanderthals were one.  Peking man was another.  Their genetic legacy doesn't seem to exist in modern man.\n\nSo look around, and remember, the man or woman next to you, is closer to you, than any other creature on the earth.
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Apparantly fhornsr believes that a 'social construct' can magically change a person's skin color, facial features, other physical traits, intelligence, and character traits.\n\nAnyway, the following is a relatively accurate system:\nnorth american amerindian (a word which means 'american indian')\ncentral american amerindian\nsouth american amerindian\neast asian\ncentral asian\nsouth asian\npacific islander\naustralian aborigine\nafrican\nmiddle easterner\neuropean ('caucasian' is an inaccurate term)\n\nEuropeans can be further divided into mediterraneans and northern europeans. 'Latin americans' are a mixture of european and central / south american amerindian. There are also people of various other racial mixes (that do not have specific names).
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First of all, how do you really define "race"? You could divide people into a few huge categories, or many smaller ones. Still, genetically, there's really not as much difference between individuals as you might think.\n\nSecondly, in the future (presuming that humanity will survive another 30,000 years may be a mistake), the "racial boundries" will have shifted due to travel and other factors. Groups of people that we currently lump together could be split apart (or vice versa), and "new" races will be created.\n\nThere is always the question of whether the concept of "race" will exist in the future. But that's another post...
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According to the 2005 CIA World Fact (an official statistics agency), America racial composition is:\n\n    * White\n          o 81.7%, or 241 million (includes those who declared themselves as white-Hispanics; those of Middle Eastern and North African descent; and others who checked "Some other race".)\n          o 69%, or 204 million (excludes white-Hispanics, but includes Middle Easterners, North Africans, and others who checked "Some other race".)\n    * Black or African American 12.9% or 36.4 million,\n    * Asian 4.2% or 11.9 million,\n    * American Indian 1.4% or 4.1 million,which includes those of mixed race or more than race in addition to Native Americans\n    * Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander 0.2%\n    * Two or more races 2.4%\n\nThe Census Bureau considers Hispanic to be any person with national origins in Latin America or Spain (ie. Spaniards, Cubans, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, etc.), and thus may be of any race.\n\nThe American population is therefore only around 60% pure White European(180 million people).\n\n    * Hispanics of any race 14.1%, or 41.3 million.\n\nBy ethnicity, Hispanics comprise 14% of the American population, surpassing African Americans as America's largest de facto ethnic minority.\n\nThe Census Bureau's definition of "white" is not necessarily the definition most widely held by Americans in general. Most Americans define "white" to exclude all Hispanics, even those of exclusive or predominanty European descent. Using that definition, the white proportion of the U.S. population is currently at 69.1% or even much less if we take into account the important amount of them who define themselves as white being actually of mixed ancestry.\n\nOf course, by the same definition, the numbers for each of the other races would be reduced if one were to take into account the important amounts of each group who define themselve as mixed ancestry rather than solely African American, Asian American or Native American.
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That's the thing with race - it's a self-selecting category.  There is no way to police any of it.  But the most important thing about race in any case is what people feel they are and how they believe they're being treated.  So race may be a bad way to understand IQs (because self-identification has nothing to do with DNA or biology) but it may be a good way to understand income (because how much money you make may be based on how you are perceived).\n\nIn any case, the census has a box for "other" and people can just write in whatever they want.
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Charles Darwin was wise enough to steer clear of anthropology, despite suggestions to the contrary.\n\nHe did however discuss artificial selection (of pigeons) in detail, using it as a time-compressed analogy of natural selction. So if you consider breeds of domestic animals similar in origin to races, then that's about as far as he got.\n\nRemember, in Darwin's day there was as yet no concept of genetics (not until the popularization of Gregor Mendl's work, 30  years later).
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Mexican is not a race.  My friend is Mexican, she is white hispanic.  When she came to the USA she was shocked that she could be considered anything else than palin white.   She found it humiliating to be considered anything other than white and said that Americans were racists for classifyng her as something other than white.  I thought that it was rather racist to consider it humiliating to be considered anything other than white and I told her so.
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I think you are Americanizing a world issue...And I strongly disagree with it. I also believe it is obvious that their are vast differences in races and cultures. I also think its great that there are differences.
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It will be nice when everyone realizes that we all belong to the same race.........the human race.\n\nThat is almost too cheesy to post but it is what I believe.
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there is not such a thing as a racial stock. the concept of races was an invention of the colonialist European 19th century, who tried to make biological categories of people.\nNowdays, with developments of genetics we know that the three main races as defined in that period doesn't corespond to biological realities.  Genetically there is one human specie, that's all, inside wich one you can find any  variation possible of individual characteristics in a continuum.\n\nOnly some countries in the world such as the USA continues to classify people in these imaginary categories, to maintain domination of one group in particular.
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Wow, where to start.  I think the only thing you got right is how destructive we (whites) are.  \nI don't agree that we are the most intelligent or the most beautiful race.  Probably the most pompous though. We certainly spread multitudes of diseases that killed many civilizations while we were spreading our religion.  Usually this was accompanied by a slaughter or two.  The white man's history is stained with the blood of uncounted cultures that we called savage and pagan. But we spread the gospel in the process to whatever was left.\nAs for slavery, we didn't invent it, we just made it famous.  It was going on as far back in history as we can see.  Slaves built the pyramids and the great wall.  Native tribes often captured and enslaved rivals.\nThe best God's believers?  I'm not sure what you mean but God doesn't see you as a certain race or color.  At least we can hope.