Race
Race is a grouping of humans based on some physical (genetic) qualities, into categories generally viewed by the society as distinct.
Discrimination of people by Racial criteria is denoted with term Racism. In the most of civilized countries, Racism is considered as unlawful, illegal.
The total ignoring of racial differences does not have commonly accepted nottion. it is classified as a kind of hypertrophied political correctness, exaggerated politeness.
In utopia «Tartaria», both the Racism and the exaggerated politeness are considered as s crime.
This article is loaded in order to collect various definition of term Race and various examples of the use.
Citizendium
https://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Race_(social)
The term race refers to humans with different physical attributes. This concept became part of the European framework of ideas at the beginning of modern history. Classical Greece and Rome were home to a large number of Africans, or Ethiopians as they were known in early Europe, without apparently any conception of “race” or species developing in those societies. In what were predominantly white societies at that time, the black man was neither romanticized nor scorned but “treated without prejudice”. [1]
For example, as many as three black Africans served as popes – St. Victor I (189-199 AD), St. Miltiades (311-314 AD) and St. Gelasius I (492-496 AD). Most remarkably, a 9th century fresco of Miltiades shows his clear African appearance, while later representations have wiped out all traces of his African ancestry and actual facial characteristics. [2]
“Race” as a distinction between different types of humans entered the European vocabulary towards the end of the 15th century, [3] particularly in Iberia. It quickly came to mark Europe over the next few centuries, especially in the drive to state sovereignty; by the late 19th century, the race concept had assumed throughout Europe a sense of naturalness and a taken-for-granted ordering of social arrangements. “Science and literature, scripture and law, culture and political rhetoric all worked in subtle and blunt ways to establish the presumption of white supremacy… and black disenfranchisement”. [4]
Nor was this confined to the West: Yan-Fu (1853-1902), the Chinese scholar who promoted Darwinian theory, considered that there were “four main races on the earth: the yellow, the white, the brown and the black… The black race is the lowest…”[5]
By the end of the 20th century, a rather different consensus had emerged amongst academics from all disciplines – the humanities, the social sciences and the biological sciences – that biological races do not exist in humans. [6]
Nevertheless, for a lay person the idea of race seems to have retained its value as a useful concept in managing and interpreting the world at the individual level. This “commonsense approach” thus marks out popular discourse from that of the scientific community; nor do advocates of “racialism” feel the need to justify what is, to them, obvious. The task of social science is to explain the persistence of racial beliefs, the patterns of behaviour and their consequences: it is not sufficient to deny that race exists, [7] although social science is far from unanimous in how to deal with issues of studying racism and racial phenomena.
The White Man Burden
In poem «The White Man Burden» («The White Man's Burden» [8]) by Rudyard Kipling, the color of skin (white race) is interpreted as symbol of belonging to the highly-developed human civilization.
It is assumed that the white men should bring their civilization to people of other races - as it is shown in figure at right.
The British prototype] John Bull (left) and the American one Uncle Sam (right)
are depicted as very strong and very honest helpers.
Such a concept is considered also in articles
«Democracy for export» and
«Заграница нам поможет» (in Russian).
Certain skepticism is expressed.
Tartaria
Differences of races are mentioned in utopia Tartaria. According to the official Tartaria doctrine, there are 4 basic races: Black, Red, Yellow and White, as they are show in figure at right.
In the Tartaric textbook on Hunabiuty, the Races are described in the following way:
Black race. Black race is characterized with black skin, black curly hair, flat nose. Most of blacks are told, although the small pygmies also can be qualified as "black". Black people are strong in dancing, sport and in reproduction; they are, generally, healthy. Black people have very smart immune system, but not so resistant with respect to drugs, including smoking and alcohol. Hybridization of black people with other races gives many famous, extraordinary persons.
Black race is very important for the development of Humanity.
Red race. Red race is characterized with curly black or red hair, a dark, a little bit red skin, big nose. Jews, Arabians, Indians and most of pre-European Americans can be qualified as red. Red races are smart in business, sport, art and science. They have strong immune system, but they are vulnerable with respect to new and dangerous ideas. Many smart discoveries are made by researchers of red race through kiloyears, since the Arabian numbers to General theory of Relativity.
Red race is very important for the development of Humanity.
Yellow race. Yellow race is characterized with yellow color of skin; usually black straight hair, flat face, black slanted eyes. Most of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and, in general, South-Eeast Asian can be qualified as Yellows. People of Yellow race are smart and accurate in following the established rules; this makes them excellent workers. Significant part of the world goods (perhaps, majority) is manufactured by the yellow race.
Yellow race is very important for the development of the Humanity.
White race. People of White race have almost white skin, gray or blue eyes, straight, light color of hair, small nose. White people are vulnerable to self-organization to the dangerous and aggressive groups by any criteria: racial, religious, nationals. White people are not so strong in self-defense: on century 20, two biggest world wars had been organized with involvement of many white people. Many white people are smart in formulation of non-trivial, not-expected concepts and solutions. Many technical and scientific inventions of centuries 19 and 20, including steam machines and airplanes, had been made by the people of White race.
White race is very important for the development of the Humanity.
The Tartaria classification is primitive, but it helps to specify a person. It is important because all the four race are widely presented in Tartaria.
In Tartaric the history of century 20 is presented as war between «Red» and «White» races.
First, at Moscovia, the Reds win and exterminate all other races (in such a way, the World War I is interoreted);
then the White race upraising at Germany try together revenge and to exterminate all «Red»s (id best, Jews and Jypsies);
bot Reds and Whites suffer horrible losses and destruction, and only the heroic efforts of the USA and the UK
stops the genocide; they succeed to liberate from fscism the Western Europe. To end to century 20, the Central Europe is liberated too, but Eastern part of Europe and North of Asia remain under control of fascists, that are absolutely non-sective with respect to race, their nazism (so-called Russki mir) refer to worshiping of their language and their furrier. This leads to Bigpuf, total crash of all the state institute, war btween Mocovian offee with use of al kinds of weapon, contamination of North, Center and East of Eurasia and death of the most of population of Moscovia.
«The modern Tartaria» (century 22) try to avoid such errors («Never Again») and carry about any kind of discrimination, including the racial one.
In Tartaria, any aggressive action, justified with the race (general genetic morphology of body of the victim) is qualified as Racism and considered as serious crime. The personage Nata Kiskin did not know this; she uses word "черножопая", attacking Barbara Smit, and gets serious problems with Tartaric justice.
Any jokes with respect to anybody's race, not related with an aggression, are, contrary, very popular.
In any non-aggressive context, word "черножопая" would be interpreted as and admiration with Barbara's race and interpreted as compliment (id est, not as an offense, not as a crime at all).
In particular, term «Nigger» (referring to the black or dark dolor of somebody skin) is not considered as offensive.
References
- ↑ Frank Snowden (1970): Blacks in Antiquity, Cambridge: Harvard University Press
- ↑ Edward Scobie (1985): ‘African Popes’, pp. 96-107 in Ivan van Sertima, African Presence in Early Europe, Rutgers State University, Transaction Publishers
- ↑ Michel Wieviorka (1995): The Arena of Racism, London: Sage, p. 2
- ↑ David Goldberg (2004): ‘The end(s) of race’, Postcolonial Studies, 7/2, p. 212
- ↑ cited in Frank Díkötter (1996): ‘The Idea of “race” in Modern China’, in J. Hutchinson and A.D. Smith (eds), Ethnicity, Oxford: Oxford University Press
- ↑ Lisa Gannett (2004): ‘The Biological Reification of Race’, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 55, p. 323
- ↑ Bob Carter (2000): Realism and Racism, London: Routledge
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man%27s_Burden#Text
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization) A race is a grouping of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into categories generally viewed as distinct by society.[1] The term was first used to refer to speakers of a common language and then to denote national affiliations. By the 17th century the term began to refer to physical (phenotypical) traits. Modern science regards race as a social construct, an identity which is assigned based on rules made by society.[2] While partially based on physical similarities within groups, race does not have an inherent physical or biological meaning.[1][3][4]
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