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    The document summarizes 10 key things everyone should know about race: 1) Race is a modern idea that was not used to categorize people in ancient societies. 2) There is no genetic basis for race since no genes or traits distinguish one race from another. 3) Human subspecies do not exist given humans' genetic similarity and lack of isolation between populations. 4) Skin color alone says little about other physical or personal traits since it is genetically separate.

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    Ten Things Everyone Should Know about Race
    1
    about race
    Race is a modern idea. Ancient societies, like the Greeks, did not divide people
    according to physical differences, but according to religion, status, class or even
    language. The English word "race" turns up for the first time in a 1508 poem by
    William Dunbar referring to a line of kings.

    2 Race has no genetic basis. Not one characteristic, trait or even gene distinguishes
    all the members of one so-called race from all the members of another so-called race.

    3 Human subspecies dont exist. Unlike many animals, modern humans simply
    havent been around long enough, nor have populations been isolated enough, to
    evolve into separate subspecies or races. On average, only one of every thousand
    of the nucleotides that make up our DNA differ one human from another. We are
    one of the most genetically similar of all species.

    4 Skin color really is only skin deep. The genes for skin color have nothing to do
    with genes for hair form, eye shape, blood type, musical talent, athletic ability or
    forms of intelligence. Knowing someones skin color doesnt necessarily tell you
    anything else about them.

    5 Most variation is within, not between, races. Of the small amount of total
    human variation, 85% exists within any local population. About 94% can be found
    within any continent. That means, for example, that two random Koreans may be
    Theres lessand as genetically different as a Korean and an Italian.

    moreto race 6 Slavery predates race. Throughout much of human history, societies have
    enslaved others, often as a result of conquest or debt, but not because of physical
    than meets characteristics or a belief in natural inferiority. Due to a unique set of historical
    circumstances, North America has the first slave system where all slaves shared a
    the eye. common appearance and ancestry.

    7 Race and freedom were born together. The U.S. was founded on the principle
    that "All men are created equal," but the countrys early economy was based largely
    on slavery. The new idea of race helped explain why some people could be denied
    the rights and freedoms that others took for granted.

    8 Race justified social inequalities as natural. The common sense belief in


    white superiority justified anti-democratic action and policies like slavery, the
    extermination of American Indians, the exclusion of Asian immigrants, the taking
    of Mexican lands, and the institutionalization of racial practices within American
    government, laws, and society.

    9 Race isnt biological, but racism is still real. Race is a powerful social idea
    that gives people different access to opportunities and resources. The government
    and social institutions of the United States have created advantages that
    disproportionately channel wealth, power and resources to white people.

    10 Colorblindness will not end racism. Pretending race doesnt exist is not the
    same as creating equality.

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