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Is it outdated or is it a ​ n uneducated term that is being proven wrong? __**//RACE IS OUTDATED AND UNEDUCATED//**__ Was there supposed to be one thing such as race?

- If we're all from the same place whether it be from Africa or Asia, we're still the human race.When a lot of people think of race they think of specific groups. This may be based on skin, culture, and religion. If you think about it 300 years ago there was not a lot of mixing of races. There was no huge slave trade but there were immigrants. When the pilgrims came to the U.S. they fought against the Indians later on and started a long battle. Why did they do this? Because there culture and looks were different from others. This is just an example of how people created another race. My point is that before planes and major ships were created their was not much mixing so race almost made since. Race to me has no definition. It's based on too many things, and to me it is just a description that might summarize that person and place them into a group. In the past people had cultures, religions, and countries where they could be placed into. Now, every generation is moving around the world, and no one is staying in the same place. This means people's culture, beliefs, and definitely countries can change from year to year. There's more freedom and there is more choice to whether what "group" you want to be in. In the time of the rennaissance race was probably just an uneducated term used to place people almost in subgroups, so that it was easy to refer to them in aspects of war and trade. The world is over populating in some countries, and this might even cause more mixing to occur. This ties in with the point above because what race would you say you belonged to if the area you live in and believe in is now where you moved to? There maybe no thing as race, but there maybe some situations where nationality comes into effect or racism.

This is where racism comes in. Too me along with race there is no such thing as racism. Racism is simply just discrimination. I think in these past 500 years the most discrimination has occurred. People have been migrating rapidly due to airplanes and new technology. When people see someone different whether its beliefs or religion or nationality we always treat them wrongly. An example is African-Americans in the 19th century, the Japanese, the Irish, and plenty more. America treats almost every group differently, and instead of thinking that person is like us on the inside, we try to base who they are on the way they look, sound, or what believe in. Although there is no thing as race in my opinion, there is still discrimination from the past. My point is that when people first mixed with each other and migrated to different countries in huge amount there were a lot of problems which may have been the cause for making the term race seem more important, but now since mixing has been rapidly increasing and more places are used to other cultures there is no need for unfairly grouping people into this group. Race could've been invented when people were not sure about other groups and was easily used to refer to them.

Some may ask what is the use of race and how does it affect our society compared to what other societies in the past had? Today, race is thrown out everywhere when people are not even sure if it is actually correct. In the past, countries could easily group a race or a kind of people with a certain look or belief without being incorrect or not as incorrect as we are today. Today many people are moving from country to country due to the economy, population, or the sense of adventure. When all these things happens millions of dollars from the government are used to let these people move into the U.S.. They are helping are economy which is a good thought. Before 400 years ago, many people didn't move around much; therefore, this term, "race" sounds more correct. 400 years ago, the idea of traveling was not the dream of most. Today millions of people are moving around which makes the idea of one race and one culture a lot harder to sustain. Although you may disagree with this statement, there are proven facts that many men and women have migrated over the past three centuries than any other time such as the graphs that are located further down on this page. An example is how we created a whole Island for all types of new citizens and immigration. Picture 1: Here is a picture of [|Ellis Island.]

Race is no longer referring to a group in their own geographic nation but mixed in with other cultures, so is it politically correct?
 * Questions for you the reader:**

Some may say there is racism so therefore there is race, but is racism just hatred against physical attributes and discriminating against those?This could be skin or hair color.

Physical attributes or genes can also be an attribute, but people are adapting to new environments so is their really a clear cut groups of race like we say? Answer: No. Most people in this country of the U.S. which is a very diverse nation. We have people of all types, but yet we still refer to a lot of oriental people as Asians or maybe just Chinese. How are they Chinese if they are born in the U.S. and the only thing that ties them to China are their ancestors and maybe culture? Then you would call them American right, but yet we don’t do that. Are we incorrect most of the time, or are people migrating so much the term race doesn’t make sense. There also is the religion factor which many of us also refer to a specific group of people. Such as muslims or jewish. We even refer to people as Muslims just by their looks but were not even sure if they are. There is so much migrating and change in culture, people change their ways and ideas which I guess the concept of "race" wasn't expecting.

Below are graphs and urls that back up many of my reasons:

Above is a graph of the [|population growth]

A graph of population growth over the2-5 million years ago. This shows how much the population growth has increased and how the pressure of over population is increasing the amount of mixing going on around the world. If you dont believe me ask the millions of illegal immigrants in our country right now. This could be for new jobs or the population issues, but whatever is happening these people are mixing more and more which will lead to the pure cut groups or races to soon be demolished.

This is a pie chart which shows [|recent migration]

Above is a pie chart which is showing the number of recent citizens that have migrated over to this country. As you can see the United States almost is at 50%. This pie chart shows how much people are migrating from country to country and how the idea of the economy and population can affect when they move. There are plenty more [|maps, tables, and charts] located other places which include this hyperlink. This is a map of where the [|most of the immigration occurs] Above is a map which is from the same website as the previous pie chart but this shows the amount of immigration and where are they immigrating to. You may see this better on the graph but on a map may help you pull in the facts a little bit better. Once again there are more facts and graphs that you may want to check out at the link below

__**//RACE IS NOT OUTDATED OR UNEDUCATED://**__

Race exists because there is racism in every day life. See Catherine's page for more.

The definition of race is: people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock; "some biologists doubt that there are important genetic differences between races of human beings" ( [|wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn]). The definition of racism is: discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of another race ( [|wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn]).

Since these two definitions go hand in hand you may see why people say that race still exists. If there is racism and discrimination every day there has to be something as race. If the term racism is still used (even though it may be incorrect) and is around in daily life it is not outdated nor uneducated. If people say you are a racist they're saying you believe in racism.Now, racism may not be correct due to the paragraphs above, but if someone applies to a college, and may or may not have the same chance to be accepted than someone else based on their race or looks, that is called racism.

To understand this point is a lot easier to understand than the one above but you may analyze it either way and find that you would like either side of this argument. Race occurs at schools, at jobs, and every other nation in the world. The defined meaning of race also states that it is genetic stock (may be biased) but also says since many differences are very small. It also is proven that someone from another race may be closer to you then of your own race. Maybe there is such a thing as race and we haven't found a correct way to define this idea that has caused trouble for thousands of years.

Is genetic information enough to determine what race someone belongs to? //In general, we would answer the first question yes, the second no, and offer a qualified yes to the third. Our answers rest on several generalizations about race and genetics. Some groups do differ genetically from others, but how groups are divided depends on which genes are examined; simplistically put, you might fit into one group based on your skin-color genes but another based on a different characteristic. Many studies have demonstrated that roughly 90 percent of human genetic variation occurs within a population living on a given continent, whereas about 10 percent of the variation distinguishes continental populations. In other words, individuals from different populations are, on average, just slightly more different from one another than are individuals from the same population. Human populations are very similar, but they often can be distinguished.// This is quoted from this website: []

Medical information will help determine race: // Yet common definitions of race do sometimes work well to divide groups according to genetically determined propensities for certain diseases. Sickle cell disease is usually found among people of largely African or Mediterranean descent, for instance, whereas cystic fibrosis is far more common among those of European ancestry. In addition, although the results have been controversial, a handful of studies have suggested that African-Americans are more likely to respond poorly to some drugs for cardiac disease than are members of other groups. // This is also quoted from the website above: []



This is a map of where sickle cell disease and as you can tell the majority occurs in Africa and proves the paragraph above. This is from a powerpoint form St. Jude which is a very prestigous name. The rest of the powerpoint can be found on this at [|this address].

This quote from the website above is correct in a way. If certian groups are more immune to certain other diseases or have a chance of obtaining an illness more than other groups or races maybe there is such thing as race. Maybe since groups have adapted to their environments and have become immune to certain situations there will always be races which could bring up the question: how will our body's adapt to changing environments and thermostats? What will happen to the diseases or illnesses that are more likely to occur in a specific group or race? Will the change as people move around? As people are mixing with other races and people are migrating will major diseases such as sickle cell inhabit other cultures? Is that a reason why race may exist or not today or in the future? Since race affects medical information does that prove that "race" is real? Many of these questions are hard to answer but I'm very interested in learning about these deep questions. See Cassy's page, Alli's page, Anna's page or Mickayla's page for more information on how medical information can affect how race may still exist. ([|more information] for scientific proof of race in genetics)

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