C4. The Perception of "Racial" Traits

Three topics:
(1) Why "race" is seen differently in different countries.
(2) How U.S. children learn to see "race."
(3) The human instinct to see "otherness."

For details, including all sources, visit http://backintyme.com/essays/item/6 .

Link to Internet radio playing 24/7 audio-only lectures on the U.S. "race" notion, including this one:
http://sc.digitaleagles.com/tunein.php/backintyme2/playlist.pls .

Category:

Education

Tags:

• racism
• perception
• cognitive
• anthropology
• tribalism
• African-American

[sssssjjjj1]

richard dawkins respected? hahaha by who...i'm an athiest and I don't like the arrogant bastard.

[frankwsweet]

@sssssjjjj1 Lol! Now that is cold.

[ELUSIVE2006]

if race is a myth then how do politicians push affirmative action and other ant-white discrimination programs? Are they just imagining they are seeing white? And if blacks don't really exist, then who is the beneficiary of this preferential treatment? Could you please kindly elaborate on these points in your videos?

[frankwsweet]

@ELUSIVE2006, I do not recall saying that "race" is a myth. In fact, this video explains why perception of "race" is common to all humans. But what you are asking about is identity politics. Specifically, how and why U.S. "minorities" (such as homosexuals, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Blacks, women, etc.) form voting blocs to demand and obtain special entitlements. Good proposed topic. Thanks for the suggestion.

[puncheex]

@sssssjjjj1: He's rather outspoken and opinionated. But he has done first class biological and genetic investigations. You have to respect that, even if you don't like him as a person.

Well, maybe you don't. Most biologists would think otherwise.

[robertigoe]

Red hair, further more, would (originally) go with green eyes. I believe that in humans this may be identified / associated with the R haplogroup. However, it may be the J haplogroup, or both at different times (something of convergence). One may be red, the other auburn. In addition, there may be a distinction between ash ("blond") and flax ("blonde"). The former may be consistent with grey eyes and is more southern, the latter with blue and is more northern (see below).

[robertigoe]

I believe that red hair may have been originally aquired by mixing with neanderthals (I have not worked on the reason / cause for their evolutionary development). At first the red hair was acquired through selective breeding. Then it became second nature later red hair was developed on other genes. Since the tendency to select for red hair was already present, it tended to persist. The original alleles for red hair no longer needed and were extinguished (are no longer present).

[robertigoe]

IA blue eyes and light skin, U5 blond hair. Hypothesis: blond hair, blue eyes, and light skin then migrated to other groups through intermarriage and or mixing. I believe that properly defined, race means separation from others (groups). If successful, it could result in speciation. Difference in race corresponds to difference in consciousness, not DNA; although there my be significant correlation, it is a non sequiter. I have an interesting hypothesis on red hair as well...

[robertigoe]

White skin evolved in response to vitamin D deficiency. I learned that here (It checks out... ). I would like to add the hypothetical observation that the source of this development corresponding to blue eyes was y-dna haplogroup I. Blond hair developed simultaneous, but was developed by a female haplogroup, possibly U5. The indigenous european haplogroup I would be less able to digest wheat than the farming societies who brought the practice to Europe. Both traits have migrated (other).

[jxhensley]

Look, it's very simple:

Step 1: People resemble their parents.

Step 2: ?

Step 3: Biological race

[NotSoPhotogenic]

Great video! More people should watch it! :D

[bikizuzu]

Well done video, and obviously good food for thought.