I define race as the characteristics of any individual that are inherited based on where their ancestry is from, and what their genetics are. For instance, if someone is White, I usually characterize them as European-American, or Caucasian. If someone is Black, I tend to identify them as African-American, and so on.
My family is Scottish-Irish American, and we participate in the Highland games. My uncles wear kilts, as do my cousins, and we have visited Scotland in the past.
Race is what a person's genetic and inherited traits are, and are what makes them "different" from others, whereas ethnicity is a group's traditions.
I'm fairly certain that my definition of race is what the general consensus of race is, but if there are others who …show more content…
It was also argued in this book that "Africans were naturally inferior and they should be kept in slavery," because they "could not function independently of slavery (PBS.org, 2003)."
The significance and impact of these publications on the U.S. legal social policy was huge. These publications helped bring about the term 'race' and all of its different connotations, such as racial …show more content…
In other words, the American government took land from Indian tribes and gave it to White men.
Manifest destiny was the belief that one civilization had the right, and the duty to take over another civilization to "make it better," as well as "make it their own (PBS.org, 2003)." This is applicable to how people view[ed] race, in that Whites believed they had the right to assimilate the Native tribes into their society, and completely abolish the beliefs and rituals of those tribes, because they were "savages," and could be "improved (PBS.org, 2003)."
Two weeks from now I am going to remember how Agassiz, Morton, and Nott "defined" the differences between people. I find it disturbing that they thought that people who weren't White were inferior, based solely on their skeletal makeup. Skull size has absolutely nothing to do with intelligence, which is what they touted in their
My family is Scottish-Irish American, and we participate in the Highland games. My uncles wear kilts, as do my cousins, and we have visited Scotland in the past.
Race is what a person's genetic and inherited traits are, and are what makes them "different" from others, whereas ethnicity is a group's traditions.
I'm fairly certain that my definition of race is what the general consensus of race is, but if there are others who …show more content…
It was also argued in this book that "Africans were naturally inferior and they should be kept in slavery," because they "could not function independently of slavery (PBS.org, 2003)."
The significance and impact of these publications on the U.S. legal social policy was huge. These publications helped bring about the term 'race' and all of its different connotations, such as racial …show more content…
In other words, the American government took land from Indian tribes and gave it to White men.
Manifest destiny was the belief that one civilization had the right, and the duty to take over another civilization to "make it better," as well as "make it their own (PBS.org, 2003)." This is applicable to how people view[ed] race, in that Whites believed they had the right to assimilate the Native tribes into their society, and completely abolish the beliefs and rituals of those tribes, because they were "savages," and could be "improved (PBS.org, 2003)."
Two weeks from now I am going to remember how Agassiz, Morton, and Nott "defined" the differences between people. I find it disturbing that they thought that people who weren't White were inferior, based solely on their skeletal makeup. Skull size has absolutely nothing to do with intelligence, which is what they touted in their