What Are The Similarities Between Race And Migration
Globalization and Migration
Question #3: Is there such a thing as ‘race’? Drawing on the American Anthropological Association’s Statement on “Race”’(May 17,1998), discuss the anthropological understanding of ‘race’.
Is there such a thing as ‘race’? This question has inspired many professionals in different fields to spend countless days investigating in order to unmask this myth. After several centuries, anthropologists from America pointed out that ‘race’ was not the biological inheritance but only the social mechanism invented to differentiate, rank, control and enslave people from different countries. The misunderstanding that race impeding both biological variations and cultural behavior was genetically determined has led to many tragedies. …show more content…
In fact, physical variations of all the significances tend to develop gradually but not suddenly. And, no human is born with built-in culture. For the physical differences, like skin color, it depends on both inheritance and environmental factors. Physical appearance is inherited independently of one another and varying sunlight intensity also contributes to different skin colors. For cultural behavior, one’s personality, temperament and dispositions are developed within social norms and so-called ‘culture’. They are not restricted and exist so early in infants. Human beings need to experience a chain of development in order to build up their language, living habits, characters, etc. So, ‘race’ is a body of prejudgments that distorts the ideas about human differences and group behavior.
The majority of anthropologists strongly believed that the origin of human beings is from Africa for a number of reasons. They opposed to the existence of
Question #3: Is there such a thing as ‘race’? Drawing on the American Anthropological Association’s Statement on “Race”’(May 17,1998), discuss the anthropological understanding of ‘race’.
Is there such a thing as ‘race’? This question has inspired many professionals in different fields to spend countless days investigating in order to unmask this myth. After several centuries, anthropologists from America pointed out that ‘race’ was not the biological inheritance but only the social mechanism invented to differentiate, rank, control and enslave people from different countries. The misunderstanding that race impeding both biological variations and cultural behavior was genetically determined has led to many tragedies. …show more content…
In fact, physical variations of all the significances tend to develop gradually but not suddenly. And, no human is born with built-in culture. For the physical differences, like skin color, it depends on both inheritance and environmental factors. Physical appearance is inherited independently of one another and varying sunlight intensity also contributes to different skin colors. For cultural behavior, one’s personality, temperament and dispositions are developed within social norms and so-called ‘culture’. They are not restricted and exist so early in infants. Human beings need to experience a chain of development in order to build up their language, living habits, characters, etc. So, ‘race’ is a body of prejudgments that distorts the ideas about human differences and group behavior.
The majority of anthropologists strongly believed that the origin of human beings is from Africa for a number of reasons. They opposed to the existence of