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Originally posted by RACooper
Too true... being a history and anthropolgy major the concept of race and/or racism comes up quite abit - particularly when you deal with evolutionary theories or African history. The first records all point to race being a discriptive term used to classify "others" not of your same community (be it clan, tribe, or state) - eventually you see it evolve as the cultures clashed into a more complex term used to both classify and measure both the people and their percieved worth, advancement, or "human-ness"... so for example the Eygptians considered themselves better than the Nubians because the Nubians were darker and less advanced; traits they associated with racial conitations - while conversely the Nubians saw themselves as better than the Egyptians because of their own darker skin, and because of their "moral" superiority; traits that the Nubians linked to race as well.
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So, in this, one of if not the most intellectually advanced nation in the world, why do people still continue to speak in terms of race if it is such a "socially constructed" term? I personally believe what you have written here in addition to other things about the created notion of various races but I always wonder when this viewpoint will permeate throughout the society so people will stop the supremacy complexes.