As I gather some information about scientific racism. ‘‘Scientific racism is the use of scientific techniques and hypotheses to sanction the belief in racial superiority or racism. Scientific evidence shows significant evolutionary differences among human races and ethnic groups’’. I come to realize that the definition of the word in every area of sciences may lead to misunderstanding if you don’t know the official meaning. Linnaeus who divides humans into four categories had become the question and argument for the people. In my opinion, Linnaeus had helped science to be grown more, but his division theory had created the first steps of the scientific racism. For that reason people started to have different opinions about the division. The color difference broke the boundaries of equality among human race by having different opinions. The biological difference between human race created some beliefs that people embrace in a way that cause some problems like taking sides based on people's colour in the past as well. I think that we are all same and humans with different opinions and Linnaeus was a men who created this division to show the biological difference and not to decide which race is more superior or not even if the meaning of scientific racism has relationship with beliefs.It means that scientific racism may have influenced by the beliefs and racism. In addition, you can not mark a person if they are racist and even if they are you can not say that they are racist without knowing their real intensions and them. Linnaeus can not be considered as racist based on his theory.
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irem,
ReplyDeleteyou explained racism and scientific racism well, don't you think it would have been better if you would also included the classification he did for humans so that others who will look at your text will understand your claim better?