Jared Diamond, author of the Pulitzer Prize Winning, National Best Selling book Guns, Germs and Steel, summarizes his book by saying the following: "History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves." Guns, Germs and Steel are historical literature that documents Jared Diamond's views on how the world as we know it developed. However, is his thesis that environmental factors contribute so greatly to the development of society and culture valid? Not without flaws, Jared Diamond makes many claims throughout his work, and provides numerous examples and evidence to support his theories. In this essay, I will summarize Jared Diamond's accounts of world history and evolution of culture.
A scholar, an author and a profound sociologist; Dr. Jennifer Peirce is tackling to find answers of how social stigma between race has created a still extreme disapproval and discomfort amongst elite working professionals in a time of the late 1980s when many institutional programs have sought to end affirmative action, but were still federally mandated at this particular corporation and other programs. In a contemporary America the political correctness to coincide the terminology of ending racism is to have colorblindness, as a sociologist Dr. Peirce looks to now answer the color blind ideology; which is to give fair representation to all those working, but is done so only based on the federal mandate and not personal ideology. Dr. Peirce utilized several different
Through the Lens of Perfection President Obama’s speech entitled “A More Perfect Union” was in part a historical overview depicting inequality amongst our past as a nation. From the get go there is a reference to the Constitution being a document that promoted inequality. I say this because the Constitution was in fact not a racially equal document. There is a “Compromise” in this document that states about the time that the first states were forming and in need of government intervention a single slave was only worth 3/5 of a white person. This type of inequality catered to an audience that was not of the majority or the privileged.
Primary Source Analysis Karl Pearson February 2, 2013 Imperialism was the start to Radical Nationalism and Scientific Racism. Motives for Imperialism which was the reasons for taking over Africa and Asia brought Karl Pearson to explain why the black man was incapable of running a country much less organizing the trade of raw materials. Karl Pearson was a scientist that lived from 1857 – 1936. He believed “natural selection” played a big role in our nations’ struggle for existence. The white man was selected to be the superior one over the black man according to evolution.
However, much of the land consisted of swampy wetlands or unfertile pinewoods unsuitable for farming. To make things worse, by 1866 bureau officials tried to force freedmen to sign labor contracts with white landowners, returning black people to white authority. Black men who refused to sign contracts could be arrested. Families were often cheated out of their fair share of the crop. Without land of their own, they remained under white authority well into the twentieth century.
(McLeod, 2007). Controversies have always abounded in the debate of nature versus nurture. One of these disputes involved a theory by Arthur Jenson, an American psychologist, finding I.Q. scores of black Americans were lower than whites, and then suggesting that a person’s intelligence is eighty percent an inherited trait. This is seen as a right wing agenda by environmentalists who believe there are inbuilt biases in testing methods of different ethnicities.
Racism goes back to “800 B.C. where the view of racism was an epidemic in the white society and the only solution was to separate black people from the whites in order to defend themselves and protect their interests.” (-800BC-today: A very brief history of racism) “Libertarians view racism to be a product of capitalism.” (-800BC-today: A very brief history of racism) The libertarians felt that racism grew out the early capitalism, because the use of slaves had create a world that was justified but white governance had started dividing the working class by ethnicity. However, the society before was capitalism was able to do without the form of persecution. “The first clear evidence of racism occurred at the end of the 16th Century with the start of slave trade from Africa to Britain and to America.” (Nittle) Racism had reached its ultimate high over the years and because a lot of wrong doing was being done to blacks and other ethnic cultures and therefore a program was created called affirmative action. Affirmative action was implemented in different societies for minorities so they can have access to jobs and educational opportunities.
How have cultural anthropologists sought to combat racism? Anthropologists have long disputed the concept of race and culture; history shows multiply Anthropologists different views and beliefs on this topic. Some have fueled the spread of racism with accepted prejudices, while other have committed their life works to using science to disprove these embedded theories, and prove equality of all people and cultures they belong to. In this essay I with explore a range of Anthropologists different views and opinions of race in relation to racism. We see society as varying into different divisions but we can all be seen as one race, the human race.
The question here which will carry on this research paper is, is Conrad really racist, or he is just trying to be a realist? After reading a few lines of Conrad's racist description to the denizens of the Congo, I really could not fathom why such an open-declared racism against people whose only fault is that they were born with a skin that is different in colour. Conrad did not hesitate from making bitter statements in his description to the black
A.) Yali’s question is “Why is it that you write white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?”, which can also be restated in my words as “how can you white people have a lifestyle with so much wealth and powerful technology while we black people have such a poor lifestyle and simple technology in which we are unable to obtain luxury that we desire?” B.) Pizarro’s capture of Atahuallpa explains why Europeans colonized the New World instead of Native Americans Colonizing Europe because in order for Pizarro to capture Atahuallpa, he and his allies must have more advanced technology which trumps Atahuallpa’s huge quantity of warriors. The Native Americans didn’t have the technology to build boats, armor or gun so they could not travel and conquer while the Europeans did have such technologies which lead to the Inca’s defeat and the capture of Atahuallpa. C.) The availability of domestic plants and animals explain why empires, literacy, and steel weapons developed earliest in Eurasia since people can settle in permanent homes and produce crops and domesticate animals, there is no reason to be a hunter and gatherer.