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A 6 page paper examining the biological basis of racial categorization. There is little evidence of race as a physical and biological fact, but much evidence indeed for race as a purely social concept. One very biological fact is that we humans need to finds points of reference in everything in order to process information most efficiently. Our very mechanism of thinking and learning categorizes information, and there is no shame in categorizing people according to color—it is a physical characteristic readily discernible and requires no value judgment, though such is often superfluously attached. The shame is in elevating that need to categorize items to condone one group claiming superiority over another based on physical characteristics alone. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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6 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_Soclrace.doc
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that whites must inherently be more intelligent possessing as they did more internal capacity for brain space. We know that all that was proven was white desperation in clinging
to racial prejudice and that some members of the white "race" were grasping at straws to give license to prejudice and so assuage their own guilt over the persecution of
an entire group of people based solely on their appearance. What kind of world would it had been had we settled on height as a separation factor among population groups?
It would have been as sensible as settling instead on color, but it would have been more difficult because of the variation among individuals-people come in all heights.
Color was much easier to distinguish. Classification depends far more on the biases of those doing the classifying, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to adhere to the old
issue of existence of biological differences that distinguish various races of humans. It is becoming increasingly apparent that race is not a biological fact, but is rather a social
construction. Physical Characteristics For an avocado lover, nothing much beats a really good guacamole. Avocado is very good in a salad as well-it gives just the right
contrast to the salads crispy vegetables. When Americans have eaten avocado with a meal, they count it among the meals vegetables. Brazilians, on the other hand, prefer their avocado
as a dessert item, particularly when it is served with lemon juice and sugar. They count it among the fruits they have eaten in a days time. Does
that mean there in any inherent difference in the avocados available in the US and in Brazil? Are they so different that one can be a fruit and one
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