How or Why did the Study of Race and Ethnicity become Disapproved, Wrong Think, Off Limits by JAYNEZTOWN

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How or Why did the Study of Race and Ethnicity become Disapproved, Wrong Think, Off Limits

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UPDATED: Monday, July 10, 2017 11:59
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Monday, July 10, 2017 11:18 AM

Are countries like USA, France and the West now messed up when it comes to examining history? If you read up on the history of peoples in North and South America, in Anicent Egypt, Rome, the peoples of Africa and Asia. There is a huge difference between books of say today and books of 50 years go, some revisions are done with factual correction while other subjects in the West or America have now become Off Limits...has DNA, tribe, blood and genetics been hit, is anthropology or examination of DNA and Race changing from observational, math and biological based, rational science to the political postmodern maybe even Marxist or social justice machine as some Conservatives or Libertarians would say?

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Monday, July 10, 2017 11:59 AM

JAYNEZTOWN

I always found it interesting to read on the Ancient Americas, what Native Tribe was where, who could have made that great migration or sailed across the seas before Colombus, which was the oldest ancient Skeleton Human in Americas.

Not that I believe too much in this idea of 'Races' if there were exact 'Races' or 'Ethnicty' in the past you can be sure peoples were mixing with each others for thousands of years. Also just because someone's DNA is marked as a good Thinker, good Basketball Player, prone to Heart Disease, Prone to Obesity does not make it so....I believe we as humans have free choice in life and we are what we make ourselves. However to deny all of this scince as psuedo science could be a massive mistake.

On the idea of the human Race or Humanity in Science you read the Out-of-Africa Theory, this is a Scientific Theory some would say politically charged and it says that every species of Mankind comes from that one 'Eve' Monkey/Human discovered in Africa right before man/woman became civilisation. Often it has proven itself to be scientifically sound, the origin of humanity is AfroCentrist and the DNA studied accurate. However it does not always add up when you look at the peoples of Asia, the Aboriginal peoples of Australia or the peoples of Europe etc Africa itself was a 'Diverse' Continent, there was some kind of mix or competition going on and Africa is said to have maybe 6 or 7 competing Races, Tribes, seperate peoples in Competition with Each Others. Peoples left Africa and migrated into other Lands. Antropologists once talked of many races the ancient Natives of North Japan, Ainu are sometimes described some sort of caucasoid-australoid-mongoloid cross. Recently, gene scientists have discovered that all Caucasians and Asians share about 4% of their DNA with Race of Neanderthals the the ancient Denisovan Ethnicty or 'Race' and in the past was probably more mixed than what first Antropologists imagined, tribes and peoples would have expanded, invaded, tooks, wives, fought back, raped, took slaves, invavded, growing and this happening over peroids of thousands of years. With that said, the point that deserves reiteration is that we are not Caucasians, Asians, Dravidians, Amerindians, Inuit, at one time Antropologists classed people by all kinds of race, there was the Congoid or the non politically correct term of Negroid, the Pygmie or Capoid also known as the original Bushmen of South Africa or Mongoloid, East Indian, Native American, Australian Aboriginal Australian, Caucasoid, Black African of any of the other names we’ve invented as humans. There’s perhaps today no point in describing a person as being of African descent simply because that’s describing the entire human race.

My guess as to what 'Fucked Up' the study of Race, was
1Racial Bias, Empires of Britain and France sailing acorss the world, studing the bodies and skulls of other peoples and thinking they were 'Superior' to Them
2An In-Exact or Not Very Accurate Science, Studying for Example a Skull of a Person Doesn't Really Tell you much, its like reading the Title of a Book and already making a judgement as to what is inside, this old science has since been replaced by gene mapping, blood examinations, DNA types, Chromosome Migration maps etc
3 Look at Science and Bones and Ancient history it is now possible to Map these peoples of North and South America, some have Pacific Oceanic DNA, some may have blood from old China or Europe, there may be mitochondrial DNA contains the same DNA sequence groupings found Guinea and Australia, Philippines, we can also map peoples from Hawaii, the Ancient Native American Plains of the United States Canada & Newfoundland, Caribbean/ Mesoamerica and the Civilisations of South America
4The whole business in Europe, nations fighting against each other, langauges and cultures going to war, Two World Wars, Hitler, the whole Jewish Holocaust thing...this was basically the death of these studies
5 Slavery, Class war in the United States, the Slave Trade, the current movement of Political Correctness and Social Justice movement...basically made the whole subject taboo and off-limits.
Lots of writers from Italy, France, Japan, America, Germany, Britain etc touched on the dieas of race or ethnicity of 'Races' Lothrop Stoddard back in the 1930s, The Bell Curve in modern times by Herrnstein, however lots of these books may have been discredited, seen as alarmist trash or anything to do with race and eugenics is now associated with KKK or the Nazis. It's possible one could be ostracized or demonized no matter how sound and scientific the approach, or its possible these early writers were simply biased?

It's a shame because we should be allowed examine the history of humans and see where this science and study leads us, and where these civilisations came and went in the past.

BTW Did you know???
France you are not alowed check who is your real child? This is French Law, France upholds the ban on paternity tests - DNA paternity testing forbidden so a man may be forced to raise a child that is not his own? What is the insane restrictive logic behind France banning paternity tests? The French think society would collapse because everyone cheats accoprding to the French, so just enforce some backwardass law on the cheats 'keep the peace' otherwise society meltsdown within French families
Today in France

It is also forbiddwen in France to ask peoples Ethnic Background for survey example Roman, N.Africa, Arab, Basque, Celt, Frank, Asian, African etc it is all forbidden under the Law of France

One cool tv series which does not have such baggage like the French do, Finding Your Roots is a PBS television series, it may have 2 or 3 seaons already? Sometimes musicians or film star celebrity will feature on the tv series, the show uses genealogical research and genetics to discover the family history of people, this science includes Y-chromosome DNA, mitochondrial DNA, and autosomal DNA analyses to infer both ancient and recent genetic relationships. The series has examined the family histories of celebrity guests with African American, Chinese American, Asian American, Greek American, Indian American, Italian American, Jewish American, Spanish and Latin American heritage, its high rated show, drama documentary, science that examines "the DNA of American culture"
Clip Comedian Wanda on Finding Your Roots

Anyways I thought I would finish with Wanda Sykes talking on Conan

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