For too long in society, not only at a national level but at a global level, those who were not born with the melanin that determines skin color to be white have been marginalized. Some have the audacity to believe that certain skin colors are superior to others. Jethro Bunker said “Whites are white, Negroes are black, Mexicans and Arabs are something in between, Injuns are redskins, and Chinamen are yellow. I don’t need any fancy pants biologist to explain that one to me. Except for the vastly superior white race, all of deficient.” His flawed justification of genetic superiority relies on the increased prevalence of diabetes in the black community. Such bigoted comments deserve serious backlash for its ignorance, outrageous offensiveness,
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This is the core of his argument, that races are not equal, white being the superior race. He could’ve, however, made a more descriptive and less ignorant argument. For instance, no matter how hard we try, racial equality will never be a universal belief. Whether it’s a result of personal preference in Jethro’s case or as a societal difference like in District 9. This occurs in District 9 as malnourished aliens who come to earth with unhostile intentions are segregated from society for their biological inferior differences. They use derogatory term “prawn” to refer to them and are forced to live in their own settlements, away from society, apartheid style. The underlying theme of xenophobia in the movie describes how societies will treat races differently because they’re different. Just as the aliens in District 9 are treated dreadfully because they’re different leading society to deal with them by segregation from society, supervised by the multinational corporation MNU.
Had Jethro utilized data regarding health disparities by race and pharmacological data regarding race in his original statement he could have substantially improved his argument for white superiority based on a biological superiority. There’s a lot of biological information and facts out there that point towards whites being the dominant race based on survival in accordance to their decreased likelihood of death and susceptibility …show more content…
Andreasen states that “Race is such a confused concept that data on differential health outcomes are, and always will be, unreliable.” The medical data also lacks scientific value because it immediately categorizes race based on biological differences thus basing it on a false hypothesis. Due to an inconsistent definition of race, the statistical reliability and validity of race is put into question. Some define race as a group of people who share a number of overt physical similarities and psychological behavioral traits due to a shared biological essence. Some believe they are phenotypically and genetically distinct population that inhabit their own geographic range. Others think race is based on groups of people who share only overt characteristics like skin color, hair type, eye shape, etc. Even some thing that race is just groups of people who share a common ancestry. Due to an unclear consensus definition of race, it makes it difficult to characterize the scientific data of health disparities among race credible. Along with the murky extension of race, what do we actually consider a racial group and what don’t we? This creates a statistical unreliability, especially when it comes to consistent and repeatable testing. Due to this scientific unreliability and conceptualizing issue, some think race as a variable should be completely eliminated. This would put
This is the core of his argument, that races are not equal, white being the superior race. He could’ve, however, made a more descriptive and less ignorant argument. For instance, no matter how hard we try, racial equality will never be a universal belief. Whether it’s a result of personal preference in Jethro’s case or as a societal difference like in District 9. This occurs in District 9 as malnourished aliens who come to earth with unhostile intentions are segregated from society for their biological inferior differences. They use derogatory term “prawn” to refer to them and are forced to live in their own settlements, away from society, apartheid style. The underlying theme of xenophobia in the movie describes how societies will treat races differently because they’re different. Just as the aliens in District 9 are treated dreadfully because they’re different leading society to deal with them by segregation from society, supervised by the multinational corporation MNU.
Had Jethro utilized data regarding health disparities by race and pharmacological data regarding race in his original statement he could have substantially improved his argument for white superiority based on a biological superiority. There’s a lot of biological information and facts out there that point towards whites being the dominant race based on survival in accordance to their decreased likelihood of death and susceptibility …show more content…
Andreasen states that “Race is such a confused concept that data on differential health outcomes are, and always will be, unreliable.” The medical data also lacks scientific value because it immediately categorizes race based on biological differences thus basing it on a false hypothesis. Due to an inconsistent definition of race, the statistical reliability and validity of race is put into question. Some define race as a group of people who share a number of overt physical similarities and psychological behavioral traits due to a shared biological essence. Some believe they are phenotypically and genetically distinct population that inhabit their own geographic range. Others think race is based on groups of people who share only overt characteristics like skin color, hair type, eye shape, etc. Even some thing that race is just groups of people who share a common ancestry. Due to an unclear consensus definition of race, it makes it difficult to characterize the scientific data of health disparities among race credible. Along with the murky extension of race, what do we actually consider a racial group and what don’t we? This creates a statistical unreliability, especially when it comes to consistent and repeatable testing. Due to this scientific unreliability and conceptualizing issue, some think race as a variable should be completely eliminated. This would put