Man’s_Most_Dangerous_Myth

Man’s Most Dangerous Myth Look around the room. One will see an assortment of people. There is a medley of all shapes, sizes, colors, and prominent and lacking features. Each attribute defining the image recognition of that particular individual, yet it is mans instinct to place these people into categories called race. Race is defined as a local geographic or global human population distinguished as a more or less distinct group by genetically transmitted physical characteristics. In actuality, race is considered to be the color of ones skin and the geographic birthplace of their heritage. Recently the factors determining race have been narrowed down to a few choice characteristics based on social definitions. Science, not culture, should be the determining factor for defining race. Race has been viewed as a cultural identification since the Age of Exploration. Beforehand, the European cultures did not interact with those of Africa or Asia. When Europeans started sailing and interacting with other cultures, they wanted an easy way to explain the difference in skin color. The Europeans did not want to be grouped with the Asians or Africans because they believed their cultural lifestyle was superior. So the Europeans created race, skin, people, europeans, color, body, science, hair, groups, geographic, genetically, black, should, pigmentation, particular, hypertension, genetic, each, been, african, africa, white, way, two, true, traits, since, similar, same, noses, might, lived, less, large, individual