Originate?

Have you ever really considered the concept of Race. If you think about it, how do you think it originated? It is such an interestinc concept. What I have found is that it is based more on religion, rather than logical scientific explanation. This is very interesting how they represented themselves as red, does the red (how they classify themselves) represent Tan skin?
 * In Eygpt, it shows that there could well have been race as early as 1350 b.c. . Because in their portraits on the wall they portray themselves as red, their enemies from the east yellow, their enemies from the north white, and negroes black.

A Representation of Eygptian race gotten from: []  -The greek god helios riding his chariot. []  - It says that the records of the chinese origin of race was really explicitly racist. They referred to white as, yellow-haired, green-eyed, barbarian people who greatly resembled monkeys from which they are descended. It is Amazing how even far back in Time, people are still racist and discriminate against some races. Here is another example of early racism: I found a lot of this information from the Book: Race: The History of an Idea in America, by Thomas F. Gossett.
 * In Greek mytholgy, it says that race originated from the god Helios's son Phaethon. It says that Helios gave Phaethon a chance to ride the chariot the pulls the sun across the sky. He was very inexperienced so in some places he could not control the steeds, and drove to close to the ground, making the people there darker. In others. He drove to high making them paler from the lack of sun. The myth then says that zeus shot down a lightning boolt killing Phaethon instantly. ( this information is from the book Race: The History of an Idea by Thomas Gossett.
 * It says that there were very early records of Chinese acknowledgement of race, and they were explicitly racist. They referred to white as, yellow-haired, green-eyed, barbarian people who greatly resembled monkeys from which they are descended.
 * A famous example of really early jewish rascism, is when noah was drunk and in the nude, his sons covered him up and averted their eyes, whereas ham did not. It says that noah blessed all of his sons and their descendants except Ham, apparently he cursed his descendants by making them be black, used as a punishment.

Here is a more scientific view on the origin of race: In this next bit, it states race was not original, it was a recent discovery:
 * I have also found a more scientific theory, about skin color. Although this also involves a little bit of Christianity. It says that if Adam and Eve would have both been AA then they would have to be dark colored, and that would be the only "race". If they had both been BB then they would only have been light colored, which again would have been the only skin coloration. Since neither of this is true, they website I saw implied that they must have been Aa and Bb, which would easily form a variety of racial difference throughout generations.
 * In other christian sources, race was a tool used by satin to turn humans against each other.

Some state that race was not an original thing, and is a recent discovery. Here is a [|PBS site] exploring how race was not orginial, but new and recent.

In the Article "The history of the idea of race...and why is matters" by Audrey Smedley, she also believes that race was made around the late times of the colonization of America. Now this is American Race though. Here is a short summary of the Article: In the article, the author takes you through early European Life, first settling the new land. The author does this to show, that in very early Europe, Race was not a factor, or an even an idea. Things back then were based more on social status, not by the color of your skin or ethnicity. Not only were blacks slaves, but so were Indians, Poor Whites, and Mulattoes. Even the property owners were of different races, White, Black and Mulattoes. Even woman got treated better, having their own choice in who they marry, be the man black or white it didn’t matter. The "servants" were treated as slaves though, and got cruelly and overly punished for small meaningless crimes. This led the servants of all different "races" to come together and hang out. They all had something in common, they were servants treated awfully. This changed later on though, as rather than all races being united, all white people of any social class were united in being racist against Africans, Mulattoes, and Native Americans. They began to initially enslave Africans for many reasons. They had discipline, and were more civilized. They were naturally immune to European Diseases, and they were not native to those lands, so they had nowhere to run off to. According to the article, the Irish were referred as Savages before all of this, until Blacks became dehumanized. This banded together all people who were of "white" origin. This later moved Native Americans into the "savage" category, again being racist against a group of people. This is because the Native Americans would not give up their land to them. Later, blacks were also moved into the "savage" group of people. This article helped show that race was not in fact an original idea, but rather a new concept.

What i want to learn about race, it more about the origin and what is true and what is false. There are so many interesting theories to study.This would be very fascinating to learn.

If you want to look on where i discovered a lot of this information check out the Annotated Bibliography: AnbibKacvinsky