Race
- Created by: Joseph Timoney-Smith
- Created on: 15-04-14 09:58
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- Race
- Biological
- It was believed black people were less developed than whites and were the descendants of apes, they were seen below the whites
- Colonisers need the support of their countries in order to colonise countries, by making it seem blacks were inferior through the use of both fiction and non-fiction literacy, they were seen as savages and in need of civilisation
- It is believed to be a social construct and has been proven so. They belief that were different biologically, other than the initial appearance is a baseless theory
- The AAA statment agrees and backs this up
- DNA is too similar to be classed as different race's
- The AAA statment agrees and backs this up
- Cultural or socially constructed
- Christians believe we are all direct descendants of Adam and Eve, yet the Christians were pro-slavery because it was written in the Bible that slavery was acceptable in Gods eyes
- Globalisation
- More racial groups come into direct contact
- When faced with different people, differences become more apparent
- Due to more education and the right, politically correct way to talk abut people, differences are now accepted
- Illegal to discriminate people due to their ethnicity
- Biological
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