Lindsay Diasparra Eugenics Paper

Lindsay Diasparra 10/9/14
Sociology Professor Grimaldi

The history of Eugenics and evolution of eugenics appeared around the

world, The earliest hints of eugenics has its roots in Ancient Greece and

Rome. Today, hints of this philosophy remain in modern political and

social debate around the world. Eugenics was the pseudoscience aimed

at improving the human race. Extremists took this one step further to a

more racist form, this meant wiping away (exterminating) all human

beings deemed “unfit”, preserving only those humans who conformed

to a Nordic stereotype. The Superior species of the eugenics movement

sought was populated not only by tall, strong, talented and intelligent

people. The intent was to populate the earth with more of their own

socioeconomic and biological kind, and of course less if not any of

everyone else. Eugenicists craved blond, blue eyed Nordic types. This

group alone was believed to be the perfect fit to inherit the earth. In

this process, The eugenics movement was intended to exterminate any

unlike this stereotype. This means Negroes, immigrant Asian laborers,

Indians, Hispanics, east Europeans, Jews, dark haired hill folk, poor

people, the infirm and anyone classified outside the gentrified genetic

lines drawn up were to cease to exist. Eugenicist’s even went as far to

identify so called defective family trees and subject them to lifelong

segregation, sterilization and eventual extermination to kill such

bloodlines. An example to such a terrible idea was during the 1930’s

and 1940’s in Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler victimized, segregated and

nearly exterminated an entire continent in his quest for a so called

“Master Race”. Among other horrific activities the Nazi regime

conducted, they also performed extensive experiments on live human

beings in order to test their genetic theories for Otmar Van Verschuer.

Karin Maghussen carried out these experiments using