POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Eugenics
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Eugenics: different races exist, hierarchy of races, improve humanity through racial puri cation. Human zoos: to educate people as to the lifestyles of various indigenous populations. Eugenics: peaked under hitler, fell out of favour after wwii. 99. 9% dna the same, 85% of the difference in dna is found within any given population. Fst: two genetic sequences drawn at random from a subpopulation (caucasian) no more likely to be similar than when compared against the larger human population. Race does not exist (but it does exist as part of the lived experience of human beings today) European explorers noted differences amongst themselves and the indigenous peoples of their explorations ( heathens , distinction between christians and non- christian,i. e. , civilized and non-civilized) By extension, people could be made civilized. Because other people were heathens, slavery and colonial domination were okay (slaves were childlike) Children can"t vote, other races are childlike, therefore other races can"t vote (sound)
