I found the statements made by the American Association of physical anthropologist and the American Anthropological Association very interesting and needed. The AAA spoke about how the ideal of race was used as a mechanism to push beliefs that were not true about other groups of people and the physical attribute and cultural practices were used to “to establish lines of division “. This is important information that needs to be expressed as well as the fact that there is only a 6 percent difference amongst different races. Using the way Americans have learned the concept and meaning of race shows just how much physical difference that do not define the way a person acts, thinks or learns can be used to create such division and inflict so much pain. Using this concept of race has created an environment for races to take power and limit opportunities from others. The AAA’s article says, “racial groups are not consequences of their biological inheritance but products of historical and contemporary social, economic, educational and political circumstance”. The following quote shows how those untrue belief’s help mold people into those circumstances . The AAPA gives a great breakdown of the facts when it comes to difference races and the article explaining that racial classification means little when it comes to biological consequences and genetic make up means the more.


The most surprising and interesting statement that stuck out to me was stated in the AAPA “racist political doctrines find no foundation in scientific knowledge concerning modern or past human populations”. I find this surprising simply because it was stated and that it even has to be stated in the first place. When politics use race to explain anything its always just ideals and concepts that create biases and misconceptions. Also, I find it interesting that politics even have the power to do that in the first place it makes me think about the foundation those political doctrines were created on. To a person who is ignorant when it comes to the facts about biological race, I would start by explaining to them why different groups of people look different from one another. In the Misconceptions about race lecture video it states environment has a lot to do with physical traits that are passed on. This is important for this person to understand because it is changing that idea that physical characteristics in a group are concert,


I would explain to them how darker skin is associated with hotter temperatures and things of that nature. Then I would go on to explain to them that pure race is nonexistence, everyone has been so call tainted and we are one species. Next I would drop the bomb on them that there is only a 6 percent difference between them in the next race so they could gain some factual information that would wow anyone under the impression that a racial group makes you so much different. Lastly I would explain to them where these concepts and biases about different races stem from in the first place, and how race is used a tool of suppression, I think that fact alone would get anyone to see that biological race makes little sense.