Scientific View of Race - Can’t Be Rid of the Labels
Looking back at my notes from the Scientific View of Race documentary I’m personally realizing society needs the labels of race. Labels, in general, can be good or bad. They’re good because they categorize different subjects. However, this categorization can be used to demean and discriminate. When I think of race I realize that we need the label and we can’t just change the categorization of human being to be just “human beings.” Labels and race have been integrated so deep into our society for centuries that it would be impossible and irresponsible to try and reverse this. The human population will always feel the need to categorize and label objects and organisms that aren’t truly known to us. To be rid of this would be to try and reverse the way humans think. Without the label of race we would not feel the need to be different or the need to belong to a group. These to feelings of need is necessary for society because these are the basics of belonging to a society: joining it or separating from it. Without labels, without race, there would be neutrality. When society is neutral there will be less opportunities to advance the name of the label and the natural fight to be the best. If there are no labels, if there is no race we will have a plain form of society. With labels, with race, we can learn to try and become the best; we learn to defy our improve our given label and race because humans always desire to be the best naturally. We can’t have a neutral society; humans must advance, must fight to be the best and the only way we can do this better is to keep or incorporation of race and labels in our society.
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