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INTRODUCTION:
Oxford Dictionary gives a set of meanings
for the word “Race”: ‘each of the major divisions of human kind, having distinct physical characteristics’; ‘an
ethnic group’; ‘a group descended from a common ancestor’; ‘a group of people
or things with a common feature’; ‘ a distinct population within a
species: a subspecies’. It goes further
to define ‘Racism’ as ‘the belief that there are characteristics, abilities or
qualities specific to each race’. It subsequently added the later developed connotation
that ‘Racism denotes discrimination against or antagonism towards other races’.
Charles Darwin’s ‘Theory of Evolution’ has explained to us the preferential
selection of fitter races (species) in their fight for ...
Posted on 2/27/2011 2:56:17 PM