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Summary: Full of nonsense, but educational in unexpected ways...
Review: I gave this book 3 stars because it is completely full of Politically Correct nonsense that flies in the face of billions of years of evolutionary history plainly available to modern science. It has value to me mainly in that we can see here clearly the mind-numbng effects of social pressures and politically correct mindsets. It is very educational about the effects of the brainwashing we receive on these topics every day. She talks about race as being a "constructed" concept--basically saying we made it up--yet it is a fact of nature that we differ in various races according to a whole constellation of physical and mental characteristics. Our cultures are very different also as a result. Pretty shocking stuff that she would say this was made up... You must read this book for this reason alone. That is why I gave it 3 stars.
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Summary: The bogus concept of race
Review: This book documents the immeasurable harm that can be generated from a pseudo-scientific concept, such as 'race.' It has been demonstrated repeatedly by the science of genetics that the concept of 'race' is scientifically invalid. Though European physical anthropologists of the 17th and 18th centuries proposed various systems of racial classifications based on such observable characteristics as skin color, hair type, body proportions, and skull measurements, codifying the perceived differences among broad geographic populations of humans, science of the 20th and 21st century now know that these are bogus and logically unsupported classifications. Even the term 'Caucasian'--used almost exclusively to mean "white" or "European" actually includes a variety of peoples generally categorized as nonwhite. As 20th and 21st century science now shows, the biological aspect of race is described today not in observable physical features but rather in such genetic characteristics as blood groups and metabolic processes. This means that a person who is considered black in one society might be nonblack in another. Most cultural anthropologists now consider race to be more a social or mental construct than an objective biological fact. This scientific fact may disappoint those persons of a racist bent, such as members of the National Alliance, but science does not support the concept of race. For more information, see The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company
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Summary: A fallacy of arguments
Review: This books fallacious argument is that Race is 'constructed' and 'pseudo-scientific'. This claim alone should relegate this book to obvious inaccuracy. Anyone with even one eye can determine exactly what race someone is by looking at them, the exception being people of mixed heritage. But modern anthropology taught at every college in America teaches the physical differences of indigenous people of Africa, Asia and Europe. But beyond this false argument the book then descends into the swampish argument that Eugenics have been used in America for 'sexist' and 'homophobic' purposes. How is this possible? Are their more men in America then women? No. So how were Eugenic used for sexist reasons. This argument is never backed up, it is just said with the idea that the audience will gobble up this as 'truth'. And how can genetics have been used to 'homophobic' reasons when even the most left wing homosexual activists admit no 'gay gene' exists. This argument is simply pure fallacy and this book makes many outlandish claims that seem to be in line with the statement 'if you tell a big enough lie enough times people will believe it'. Not a reliable text. Seth J. Frantzman
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