treasure6
03-11-2004, 01:01 PM
"How people have been accepted and treated within the
context of a given society or culture has a direct
impact on how they perform in that society. The "racial"
worldview was invented to assign some groups to perpetual
low status, while others were permitted access to privilege,
power, and wealth. The tragedy in the United States has
been that the policies and practices stemming from this
worldview succeeded all too well in constructing unequal
populations among Europeans, Native Americans, and peoples
of African descent. Given what we know about the capacity
of normal humans to achieve and function within any culture,
we conclude that present-day inequalities between so-called
"racial" groups are not consequences of their biological
inheritance but products of historical and contemporary
social, economic, educational, and political circumstances."
http://www.aaanet.org/stmts/racepp.htm
context of a given society or culture has a direct
impact on how they perform in that society. The "racial"
worldview was invented to assign some groups to perpetual
low status, while others were permitted access to privilege,
power, and wealth. The tragedy in the United States has
been that the policies and practices stemming from this
worldview succeeded all too well in constructing unequal
populations among Europeans, Native Americans, and peoples
of African descent. Given what we know about the capacity
of normal humans to achieve and function within any culture,
we conclude that present-day inequalities between so-called
"racial" groups are not consequences of their biological
inheritance but products of historical and contemporary
social, economic, educational, and political circumstances."
http://www.aaanet.org/stmts/racepp.htm