The Origin of Race in the USA
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Do you believe that your race correlates to your skin tone? Because that wasn’t always the case. So how did Americans come to believe that race equals certain visible physical characteristics such as skin color and hair? And why is it that certain ethnic groups that were once considered “non-white” became reclassified as “white”? Watch the episode to find out.
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Now, why aren't these videos in all classrooms?? I learned a lot and became even more curious this is exactly the education our kid's schools should add to their curriculum.
Let your kid’s history/social teacher know about these videos.
Telle Thomas : I agree 100%
telle: Too many parents in many places would complain if this was shown in K-12 school. That is why you have to go to college to learn stuff like this. And they are making it harder and harder to do that.
And the state of Texas is gaining control of the national textbook market, because of its size, and literally forcing this sort of information out.
And conseravtives are mad that this stuff is taught even in college, and try to stop it, and complain about it all the time.
It is in my google classroom. That's why I was looking at it 😂
About texas? Do a little research. It's out there.
I wish this was mandatory for all grades in all schools at all times. Black history IS american history. *Thank you so much for all the work you do to bring wisdom and knowledge to all who seek it.*
Which is why it is a crime to give a “ month” to Black history…. Segregation is WRONG!
@@philipcone357 we give a month to give the unrepresented minority the spotlight for once….white people have the whole year. A month is nothing. We’re trying to give equal exposure not segregation 🤦♀️
You got that right BLACK HISTORY IS AMERICAN HISTORY. WITH OUT US, IS NO AMERICA. GOD BLESS YOU GIRL, STAY STRONG STAY GOLD.
Black history start before America.
Dr. you know what should mandatory in school? researching one's ancestry and you will see who are the indigenous American.
This kind of work is what makes youtube invaluable. Thank you to the creators of such content!
And they still get paid really bad :/
100th like 🙌🏿
Agreed 💯
Race is 100% real. It is a mixture of culture and genetics. White black and Asian are just giant groups that have many sun races in them. Such as Caucasian. German, French, Italian and even North Africans.
@@AT-wj5sw um, why do people think humans originated outside of Africa? I mean seriously, humans didn't originate outside of
Africa. I'm sick of hearing this rubbish about people's ethnic nationalist beliefs of humans originating outside of Africa.
Finally, a cross-section of cultural history detailing slavery in the west, grounded by factual data and empirical evidence. Beautifully presented and very informative. Thank you Danielle!
There is very little factual data and empirical evidence and its spun into a political narrative. What's informative is how it promotes racism while acting like its against racism.
@@psychicbloodbrother That’s your takeaway. What do you believe the facts are?
@@connshawnery6489 Facts are not about belief that's religion. Nice try.
@@psychicbloodbrother You still couldn’t answer the question. If this information isn’t factual when there is detailed analysis and research illustrating it, then what in your opinion, are the facts? While you’re at it, you can reveal your sources as well. Prove you have something more between your ears than empty troll comments.
Who else is here during the racial tensions in America following George Floyd's death?
That’s the plan! To cause racial divisions. Hate whitey playlists
History is a hate whitey playlist? What?
Me. I’m wondering why we continue to call the two races the media loves to oppose “whites” and “blacks” the names of colors. Why can’t we get rid of calling people the names of colors. We don’t call Asians yellow and we don’t call Native Americans red
@@emilydowepa-c8975 I agree. But race has been one of the biggest conditioning that civilization has been under. How can people look beyond those labels especially when humans have the natural tendency to want to fit in and belong to something?
I’m biracial my mother is Chinese my father is American with German Jewish ancestry . Today you have family are interracial relationships around the world.
Highly intelligent with an amazing voice
Self Discipline dude learning history behinds the invention of words isn’t a bad thing. You’re just being a hater
Cristian Proust definitely specifically the Southern Europeans weren’t that liked by the northern (Anglo) whites. I mean they’re still white scientifically though. This history is so odd
Self Discipline typical white remark she had no parts of but WE still are affected today by the past
@@iisnotfivethree3837 Exactly
OMG yes. She may be the single BEST presenter i've ever seen.
Well done. This is important for Americans especially to know but rarely discussed well.
Hebrews/ Jews are not white. You wouldnt call someone from the middle east white, would you.
John Martin Ashkenazi Jews are white according to their DNA. So it doesn’t matter what you believe because science says otherwise.
@@darwinhenriquez5371 thats actually false, science even recognized that ashkenazi jews are not white
John Martin They are part part European with middle eastern origins. 🤷🏻♂️ They look white. They are white
@@darwinhenriquez5371 so if someone in south america looks white, are they white
As a history teacher with a masters degree in civil rights, this is a must see!! Definitely going to show this to my students. Thank you!!!
I weep for America if "bonified" History teachers accept the false premises of a video like this that promote racism and hatred for America. Content of Character has nothing to do with Race and that's what your civil rights degree should have taught you. Today's Academia is destroying the Civil Rights Movement that Dr King championed.
When I was in college I took a few classes on native American history. I found it very interesting to learn how the official definition of race (and the perceived amount of a mixed race person's "whiteness") was changed to essentially change the definition of if you were "Indian" enough to be considered part of the tribe (or if your children were) and if you were "white" enough to be legally able to look after your own affairs and own your own land. In some instances in history, if you were mixed you were no longer counted as a tribal member by the US government. In other instances, the government policies actively encouraged mixed race marriages because mixed children and grandchildren were considered "white enough" (at least 25%) to have more property rights than their "full-blooded" native parents and grandparents. One of my professors called this "attempted genocide by redefinition."
Does your professor has publications on this matter? Or if you have sources on your syllabus that you could share, I would like to read them. Thanks
Do some reading on the One Drop Rule and what political party promoted and enforced it.
It all depends in who has made wrote, the tale or Story.
"Attempted" is part of the definition of the word genocide, so another word for an attempted genocide is just "genocide"
@@jenniraisovna5698 Have you heard of "Google"? It hasn't been around as long as your Public Library, Colleges, or even Yahoo, but it has a plethora of information, even unbiased information, if you can believe it! Crazy world....
So, what the hell did I learn in school all those years?
Jon Bush i have no idea probably the same as me
You learn not a poopie doo thing just like the rest of us. 🤦♀️🤔
I learned a lot of this in school... My history teacher basically said "screw the text book" first week of school. He taught what we should know.
@@punkdork1993 well you had a great teacher
Sorry bro, we were all screwed up.
What's sad is that she has to explain this stuff at all in 2018. Why do these archaic ideals sill thrive in 2018?
Because people won't stop teaching the nonsense to their kids, primarily.
lol, humans be humans.....our brains love categories. Race is just one example of that...
...and tribalism...
When society is based on a lie, a false premise - it takes a long long time to fix it... We're not even close to fixing it yet. But I think the trend towards truth has well begun.
Hear, hear!
Can a class on this be mandatory in every school in America? It really needs it right now!
She had some good info in the video, but a lot of it is very one sided to present her case that somehow white ppl started racism through slavery. But she never addresses how, Black Muslim Slave ships used to scour the sea shores looking for white slaves. In particular, white women & children to be used as sex slaves in North Africa. There were MORE white slaves in Africa, before Europeans ever stepped foot in Africa. And more white slaves, than, Black African slaves in America. At the time of the Civil War, there were 4 million. Africa had ten times that amount.
It's called the critical race theory and its actually being studies in colleges rn
@@earlofmar7987 where is the records of history of that cuz I've literally never heard of any recorded enslavement based just on race alone until British colonies enslaved west Africans...
@@indiavazquez9169 I just listen to ppl much smarter than me. Thomas Sowell for one, talks about White Slavery in North Africa. It's a known fact that Rome had black Emperor's and black commanding officers with black troops. DNA, in Native Indians, shows they must have visited here back in the early 440's. AD. Then they invaded what we call England today in 820 A.D. Black DNA runs all thru that area. Scotland had a black King in 920 A.D. Shakespeare even wrote a play about him, "Othello". Also, fact is Muslim Slave Ships. They kidnapped thousands of Scot's & Irish. Anybody standing or living near a sea shore, they'd kidnap them. We had problems with the Barbary Pirates in the 1800's. They'd kidnap our sailors & demand ransom. America was too pour at that point and the Vatican paid the ransom.
I’m gonna get ride of your’re 69 likes
I don't want to make this a long comment, however, I feel it
needs to be said. Last year in January, my sister and I visited Charleston, SC.
We toured several historic houses, the old shipping house, and the slave
market. I learned SO much on that trip about enslaved persons I did not know.
What struck me to the heart was the horrible systematic (not systemic)
institution of the enslaved person that developed in the south even after the Act
Prohibiting Importation of Slaves of 1807 prohibited the importation of
enslaved people. With already a self-sustaining population of over 4m enslaved
people, the south agreed to the law knowing it gives rise to a very profitable
and legal domestic trade. They knew that the number of enslaved people would
produce more enslaved kids. In many ways, this was a huge advantage and shift in
how enslaved people were used. First, newly enslaved people needed training,
conditioning to mold them into their new oppressed role. People born into slavery
were conditioned from the start to accept their subservient roles. Think about
this for a minute. If a young child's parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles
have been in this role for decades, then, of course, you will more easily accept
it, too. After all, what else would make you think your life would be any
different? This process squeezed the thought of freedom that came with newly
enslaved people; making them more obedient and productive. And speaking of more
productive, the second reason the south was willing to give up the importation
of newly enslaved people was that established enslaved people could be trained
with special skills that made them more marketable. Yes, as in selling for a
profit. Generations of enslaved people could be trained to be great cooks,
carpenters, domestic help. A highly skilled cook who taught their enslaved
children special cooking techniques was a highly profitable commodity and bring
a nice price at the slave market. This practice was fueled in the early-to-mid
1800s as the country pushed west and the demand for skilled labor rose. Under
the radar smuggling continued, of course. However, the systematic oppression of
an entire human race over decades, the crushing of a people’s soul, and desire
to live free was as regulated by law as it was by greedy whites. For example,
George Washington wanted to free his enslaved people when he died, but he could
not do that by law. Because several of them were owned by his wife and her
children inherited them as property, he was not allowed to grant freedom
without splitting up enslaved family members. All-in-all, this is all kinds of
messed up. Think of it, it is the determined systematic and regulated killing
of the human spirit. Beyond cruel and NOT mentioned in any history book I ever
read in school. Teach THAT!
Wow. This breakers my heart so much. How can people can do such thing to another human. And at the same time claim “all men are equal”. Those people were just as evil as Hitler yet not one talks of them like that. They’re saying the media is dividing black and white, no no their
ancestors did that in the beginning and their legacy carries on to this day in a different way.
Sis, I'm glad you had to find out that way because at least now you know how it came to be. It's not taught in schools because it would make kids more rebellious than they already are. Anyways, the slave game is still played. It's just known as paid employment now.
You're right, only it wasn't decades...it was 4 centuries. People should think about that and weep, uncontrollably! Not to demonize Europeans, because they weren't all slaveowners and slavery didn't start with them, but it is an indictment of the wickedness of humanity, and as far as I'm concerned, demonstrates the need for a savior.
It’s a good thing that there is a higher power and humans don’t live for long
Did you also read how these slaves knew they were free, but they choose to live like slaves for fear? Its the mentality. Those who choose to not live like slaves made the difference because they were no longer slaves to fear.
So...according to the "old" definition of race, when I wished certain members of my family weren't my family, then that made me racist? 🤔
David Cecil
Everyone is racist now
Where did you get that from?
Oliver Winters
Listen to the video
David Cecil ua-cam.com/video/3zSC09PWTho/v-deo.html
😂😂😂oh snapppp
I can’t believe she didn’t mention the “one drop rule.” Basically it was a belief in the US during the late 18th and early 19th centuries where if ANY part of your ancestry was of African descent, you were considered black. This was justified to keep people enslaved. Wish she would have mentioned that...
I clearly remember that. It seemed odd to me that something like a drop of blood could determine your "race", and I didn't understand the point in bringing that up. Seemed so shallow and irrelevant.
Why would she mention that, she said if your mother was a slave you were slave, even if it was rape by the slave master. But that's more than a drop of Black blood, which means you're still Black in the United States.
@Joel Alex 😂 yep
It the same for Natives. 1 drop of anything else and you are not considered native.... stupid if you ask me.
@Joel Alex When that rule was thought up almost nothing was known about human evolution, and the idea that all humans have common ancestors in Africa would have been scoffed at by most Europeans.
As an Indian( from real India), this was very enlightening. We read about the French and American revolution too at school, so that helped. I was very confused what to fill during my graduate school admission forms, as being brown and being Asian was never an option. Also, the authorities didn't believe me at first, because of my fairer complexion( common in Northern, Western and N.Eastern India). Being racially jeered at was not a pleasant experience, but I hope we grow to respect each other as a universal community, Vasudhaiva kutumbakam( the world is one family).
The world is not one family. Who deforested the Amazon? Who polluted lakes and rivers with chemicals? Who spilled billions of gallons of crude oil into the oceans? Who destroyed the coral reefs? Who overfished the seas? There is only one primary race responsible for the destruction this Earth has seen over the last 1,000 years. They wreaked havoc on your country too.
History affects statisrics to the point of having to give irrelevant information to the state administration so that they can categorise you somewhere for whatever historical reason.
Some info may be useful for some policies on equal rights, but some other info may be used just to discriminate you better.
So why have your people not pushed for the identity as hindu? What would be a reason they consider native Americans as Indians as well?
@@jennaywilliams1024lol hindus are people following hindiusm,
@@footballreels9350 I meant as Hindustan. That's what India was called originally.
I love how you said, "Supposedly don't notice." Our brains are hard-wired to notice gender and skin tone; it's a survival mechanism left over from more primitive times. It's what you DO with that information that makes you a racist, or not. We can't help but notice, but we CAN control our reactions.
This also supports what I was taught in college - race is purely a social construct with no genetic backing whatsoever.
Hmm
I agree there isn't any biological difference Dark skinned people and lighter skinned people. But there has been experiments with children. Put one dark skinned child and one lighter skinned child together they won't notice skin colour until they are told. Not liking someone with a different skin colour to yours it's taught it's not built in prejudice is taught to children by parents and peers.
@@johnricardo5935 Not true. Cooperation must be established first for them to see past color.
@@-PURPLE-HEAD what about very young children they don't see shades of skin.
@@johnricardo5935 Where'd you get that from?
I am glad to be part of my race. That is the human race. We really must move beyond our history of poor treatment of people because of their ethnicity. I think that discussions such as this one are important so that we do not forget the errors of our ancestors. Nice video
John Huff human ain’t a race old man
species
madcoki This can really backfire on you so stop. We are the human race - Done. That’s it!
But you’re like part Neanderthal too...so
Adeline Okoboi Do we?
Just shared your playlist on my FB. I am trying to educate myself and my family on Black history. Thank you so much for these videos!
Just so you know, this video confuses cultural and sociological notions of race with biology suggesting that the former are the basis for the latter.
There’s no “black history.” Black is a brand and/or nom de guerre used to dehumanize people based on their phenotype descriptions. Actually, black and white are legal statuses. Find the terms in legal dictionaries for further exploration. Moorish history and/or human history is what you’re referring to.
Amerikan Racism is embedded in its White (new)COLONIAL Priviliged, Class-Perceptions, biases. Prejudices that has been historically INSTITUTED IN U,S, SYSTEMS-POLICIES-LAWS-INSTITUTIONS & CULTURES of WHITE RULE/CONTROL SUPREMACY over HUMYNITY'S Global COMMUNITY 🗿
The 3 volume series by Theodore Allen, "The Invention of the White Race" breaks down how race developed in America.
First, as the video states, there was no concept of race. People were known
as from the place they came. Englishman, Mexican, etc. Race was invented in America in the 1700s when this country was made a "white" country. Meaning that the rich aristocracy would class collaborate with the peasent European immigrants. This would create white privilege, because anyone who wasn't "white" was second class and disenfranchised by default.
@@Autochthonous_Anarchist once we stop using colored emojis and saying first black, Asian, Mexican this and that well be fine
This was illuminating! As an #Iranian, I was always confused about what it all means. When I joined my grad school in the US, I was told to check the "white" in the forms. Then, I was attacked on the street with racial epithets! Now, that makes sense! I mean it absolutely doesn't! But, now at least I feel validated in thinking that it doesn't make sense! Damn enlightenment era!
Iranians' place in the racial hierarchy created by those people is complicated. On the one hand, Iranians speak an Indo-European, Aryan language, which makes them like Europeans (although in linguistic terms no European language is actually Aryan, but that seems to have escaped a lot of Europeans' notice). On the other, European history is often considered to have begun with ancient Greeks, and the ancient Persians were the habitual enemies of the ancient Greeks and Romans, and so were always portrayed by classical historians as wicked, despotic, and decadent Orientals in contrast to the virtuous and uncorrupted Greeks and Romans. But then Christianity came along and picked up the Jewish scriptures, in which the monotheistic Persians are portrayed as virtuous and enlightened rulers in contrast to the wicked, decadent, and polytheistic Babylonians. So Europeans have never known exactly what to make of Iran and its history.
But today the religious divide between Muslims and Christians, as well as the unfortunate enmity following the Iranian Revolution, is probably what drives most Americans' prejudice against Iranians.
It's weird. If you wore hijab on the street here, people may have gone after you out of religious bigotry. ☹️
I'm an atheist, but I support your freedom of religion, and everyone else's. (As long as they allow me my freedom too)
Edit: we are a country that was based on racism, trying to get the poison out is very difficult.
@Daniel E. The concept is not a scientific one. However, yes. Historically, we are considered white. In US though, the concept is more political. I have noticed that every newspaper photoshops Iranians to look darker. photograph.
@@grmpEqweer I wasn't wearing hijab on the streets. I was against wearing hijab when I was home. Weird assumption !
Also, I am the 4th generation atheist in my family. So, hello fellow atheist! 🙂
There are so few of us in US! Back in Iran, about 80% of my generation consider themselves atheist or agnostic.
@@brucetucker4847
Farsi was the language of Illuminati in Europe for centuries. In Europe, The greater Iran was a huge part of "white" identity; as you can see in Niche's Thus spokr Zarathustra. Or, even Cyrus the great's influence on Thomas Jefferson.
The association of white culture and white British complexion happened after WW1; you can see it blooming in The Waste Land. The idea remains confined mainly to US and UK. Although, the idea has spread since then but not nearly as much as the way it is viewed in the US.
Also, there was no way for him to know I am from Iran. It was after midnight, and I was walking home from my lab. With my hair flying around like a banshee, I half expected him to run away in fear! 🤣
Looking back, I am quite thankful that he didn't physically attack me! I was too naive back then! It was heart-rending to hear all the international PhD students that joined the program in the smae year experienced similar incidents, around the same time, including a Greek a friend of mine.
I love this woman. So beautiful, intelligent, and likable. 😁
And beautiful!!
My bad, you already said that🥰
Nah so woke
I'm so thankful I stumbled upon your videos! I am an aspiring history teacher (degree and certificate in hand but looking to go abroad first) and can't wait to use this in my future classroom. I think these videos act as a great launching point for discussion.
@JermarWilliamsonnice Chat CGPT researxh cut and paste
Race is a childs attempt at classification; by color and shape.
00mongoose HA HA! Yes! I’ve been annoyed with recent presidential elections that seemed focused so prominently on race and gender. My preschool students could vote if that’s all we had to consider. Heaven help us! I hope we all can do better than that.
@@maggiebastolla5430 "Heaven Help Us". Classic 😂
Daniel: I mean, yes, color and shape are passed down genetically. Everybody knows that. Where it gets dumb is trying to correlate color and shape to unrelated things like intelligence, temperament, sex drive and etc. As if the gene that dictated skin tone also dictated personality. It doesn't. Genes are simple things that each only dictate a particlar thing. They can not dicate a multitude of things, in the way that some racists think they can.
@@milascave2 Yep 😎
@@milascave2"As if the gene that dictated skin tone also dictated personality."
Let's say you take an animal...idk a lion. So you take the entire population of that animal and split it into two different groups. You put one group in an environment where being small and dark is an advantage and you put the other in an environment where being big and bright is an advantage. Then you wait 3000 years and I go get one of the lions and tell you "wow this animal is small". If I asked you to guess if the animal was bright or dark...you would probably have a good idea even if the genes that were responsible for size had absolutely nothing to do with the genes that were responsible for brightness.
Basically one difference in the environment can lead to multiple genes being affected. So one trait might be indicative of other differences even if it itself doesn't impact those traits.
"Genes are simple things that each only dictate a particlar thing. They can not dicate a multitude of things, in the way that some racists think they can."
No...genes don't just influence one thing. At least not one thing in the way you mean." Mendel also observed that pea plants with colorless seed coats always had white flowers and no pigmentation on their axils. In other words, in Mendel's pea plants, seed coat color was always associated with specific flower and axil colors. Today, we know that Mendel's observations were the result of pleiotropy, or the phenomenon in which a single gene contributes to multiple phenotypic traits."
www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/pleiotropy-one-gene-can-affect-multiple-traits-569
This woman is a first-class educator. We're all smarter for having listened to her.
Do a video on what happened in Black Wall Street in America
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They have it on here
Lora Larose You need a history lesson in politics. You’re so stupid.
Michelle Hubbard trust me this is a trump supporters strategy : make the adversary look worse than their actions.
@@heribertosarmiento1265 wtf? Keep believing that, democrats are good, they didn't convert Cali into a shithole or Detroit
Why cant I just be a "American" and not be labelled as black, African or minority?
Why stop there? Why can’t we all just be “human?” At the end of the day, you’re right. How we see ourselves and who we’d like to be are more important than anything else. But ideas like race, gender, and sexuality... those all got turned into something “bad” or “good” by the people who built the society we live in. And to understand ourselves, we have to understand how those ideas have built our identity and the identities of people around us. Racism is a philosophy, and we have to ask ourselves the hard questions to undo it.
@@fractal_sight9730 so true sir!
You can and you are -- you're an American. When are we all going to rise up and say enough of this stupid, hair-splitting, divisive language game?
I've watched several of your videos. You have an amazing ability to articulate facts in an efficient and easy to understand way, prioritizing to most important information for the video duration. Wow. And you are clearly well read and know your facts. In my humble opinion, if you want to elevate your already amazing videos to the next level, rely less on quotes from trusted authorities and present your own hypothesis for consideration. I want to know what you think, your best guess. I want you to reply less on restating facts, some of which are quoted by many others, and add more of your intuition and ideas. Anybody can state history, what will set you apart is bringing "you" to the conversation, giving me something to think about. If I agree, I will watch more. If I disagree, I will watch even more because you hit an emotional cord and I will be unable to help myself from finding out what you will say next. People want to be right. They can either be right about agreeing with you or right about not agreeing with you. Either way they will watch you more than those who just state facts and data over and over.
This is more of a scholarly lecture series rather than an opinion series.
The history she's imparting is not opinion or idiosyncratic postulations. She's stating facts with dates and locations.
LaShanya, excellent observation!
@@DictumMeumPactum Not 100% accurate, she is forwarding many lies of omission, trying to make slavery in the United States appear uniquely different from slavery anywhere else. Jefferson's quotes are lies of omission, because she omits the context and adds commentary.
@@brady3474 then fill in the gaps yourself instead of pointing fingers at others like a little child who was left without candy share. Vague claims about context and omission do not make your claims valid by any means. Thus, elaborate if you wanna be heard!
Great video! I am using it in my Multicultural education class to help my students get a better understanding of "race" . Thank you!
Teach CRT!
Multiculturalism is a weapon of mass destruction. All cultures are not Equal. The melting pot is far superior to multiculturalism. Melting pot unites, Multiculturalism divides.
Eugenics. This was what was used to establish the judicial, educational, religious, financial and medical systems we have today. When these systems were designed eugenics was the platform to ensure Africans stayed as chattel. Eugenics and Darwinism were both used.
Truth Finder: You are obviously and totally unfamiliar with both Eugenics and Darwinism and their role in judging Africans. There is no way one can discuss subjects with half-educated people.
@@ianshaw482 Such a inappropriate and condescending response. Eugenics and Darwinism still plays a big role in the society we live in a subtle and covert way
Since no one told you ITS ALL A BUNCH OF BULLSHIT WITH NO SCIENTIFIC BACK UP AT ALL ANS IT WAS CREATED TO OPPRESS ANOTHER GROUP OF PEOPLE MAYBE YOU AHOULD LOOK UP AND STUDY IT AND FIND OUT FOR YOUR SELF AND SEE IF IT REALLY MAKES SINCE TO YOU?
It goes back farther than eugenics and Darwin.
"We love the poorly educated!"
- Donald Trump
Also if you look at the evolution of the race question on the U.S. Census you can see changing attitudes (often very ridiculous ones) throughout our history. One of the most ridiculous: The U.S. once included Hindu as a race. Like somehow the government put out a whole census and didn't catch the fact that Hindu is a religious designation or just didn't care.
To be fair, the word "Hindu" was given to people who lived on the east of the river Indus by ancient invaders. The word doesn't have any significance in "Hindu scripture" because they were followers of Sanatan Dharma. As per this nomenclature and ancient understanding of race, Hindu is a race. There is an idea that you can't "convert" and become a Hindu because you have to be born a Hindu. It makes sense because of the relationship of the term and geography.
Your critique is accurate as well because I don't think the US census included Hindu in their forms because of their knowledge of ancient India. It was probably because of ignorance.
Exactly, as a foreigner, when you see this question in your visa application you are perplexed. Nobody cares about race anywhere else. SO, I didn't know how to answer because I felt that several categories applyied to me, and the funny thing was that the migration official answered the question and he decided that I was white, and that was the end of it. Whatever!
Prolly jus didn't care
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Hinduism seems about as legit as skin color (when it comes to grouping people). Two randomly chosen people of the same religion will likely have more in common than two of a similar same skin color. But i agree, Hinduism is not what we consider a “race”. They were probably just ignorant. I’m just saying that race always gets way more attention than it needs when it comes to grouping people.
In fact Hindu meant a geographical identity until the British came and tried to understand what is the religion and got confused of 1000s belief system , so simply named it Hindu religion ....or Hinduism now...
Long before European came Greeks called indos, Arabs called hind , Chinese called the land as xhinjsu..it's was mentioned to be land from sindu (indus) river till the big ocean (Hindu sagara or Indian ocean)
Wow.....right from the get go she distinguished the difference about U.S history aspect vs the rest of the world.... good for her. She is a very smart lady.
Exceptionally well researched, brilliantly presented, refreshingly new perspective of an old story. You ,young lady are doing precisely what God has put you here to do which is to inform and educate. Well done and Bravo!
The concept of race really enrages me, I come from a country where assuming a racial identity is not a thing, mostly because of colorism and aftereffects of colonialism, but racism is not a thing here like in the US I've never had to think about assuming a racial identity until I involved myself in their culture through the internet, never thought myself as Black, my skin is brown, black, dark whatever you wanna call for description purposes, but not to label me and out me into a neat little chart that describes people that supposedly fit with me inside that lable but that we honestly have little to nothing in common. It enrages me more when said people try to make me into a racist ignorant individual who's ashamed of their African descent! I'm honestly frustrated with this whole situation in 2020 it seems as if we all collectively decided to start a war against each other and engage in toxic behaviors that I fear might inspire a new wave of race wars. And in my opinion is totally unnecessary, you can be proud of your heritage and try to make so that people stop thinking negatively of it without partaking in the racial system, a thing that was created to harm your ancestry nonetheless and that you so stubbornly seek to perpetuate. 🤦🏽♀️
Ja i agree. The whole concept of race confuses me, and im sure a lot more of my generation as well. I think the idea of different races will go away in a few more generations (if humans can even live that long)
@@greatestaxolotl4933I hope so too. I've experienced the stuff and it's so fucking cool 😔
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I just laugh at it all because I know it all comes from the Immaturity and Ignorance of Sociopolitical Brainwashing. but all the Proof is already there in the Science that shows that we are only one Race... and have always just simple been Human. 🤷♀️
I’m sorry this has been your experience when involving yourself in convos about US culture. I am a black woman from the US. I have family members who have immigrated to the US and say the same thing, they never have dealt with racial issues until moving here. US is a “pick a side” type of place which is probably why people pressure you into choosing a racial identity. Unfortunately, many US Americans have little education or knowledge of the history and politics of other countries. Because of that many of us assume that all countries who have endured the atlantic slave trade or have been colonized have the same experience and cultural shaping, although this is wrong. I think you should not allow yourself to be enraged but instead try to educate people about the cultural differences amongst the African diaspora and let those who don’t listen remain ignorant 🙂
Beautifully said.
I like the original definition of race as kinship-derived because it seems more accurate. I am of European, African and Native American descent. What race am I? The human race.
You don’t have to fit a box. You are you!
My mother is half Italian half Portuguese and my father is half native half black. Some ppl say that if i have one drop of black im black but that means i would have to deny my whole heritage because of that... I am mixed race and it’s ok to be the way I am. I don’t have to fit any box. :-)
The world is becoming more and more mixed and that’s a good thing!
That will make you TriRacial.
Then they'll call us racist for even making that distinction.
His Majesty human is not a race it is a species
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This is why I LOVE PBS!!!
Great video, once again.
Keep them coming.
Jackles lover Forevers The only two race's were the Indians and mexica
Maxx lopez what-
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I teach pre-service teachers and use this video in a Multi-Ed Course bc even as 3rd yrs in Uni, they are still not knowing the differences between Race, Ethnicity, Nationality. Thank you for this content.
The origin of racial prejudice against black people has it's roots in Judaism, the Torah and Talmud state that Noah's son Ham was turned black as punishment from God and Ham's descendants were doomed to slavery. Muslims had racial prejudice against black people and were enslaving them long before Europeans, who also ended up racist because of Christianity. If it wasn't for this, race would as problematic as hair color. What used to be called race is actually Ethnicity, which has to do more with language and culture than genetics or phenotypes.
Great video! Race is definitely a western social construct created to keep those who were never in power out of power or enslaved. Biologically/genetically or even socially, we should never be generalizing assuming culture by skin colour either, as there are vastly different "races" within such groupings (African American, Ethiopian, Sudanese etc) or (Anglo-Saxon, Swedish, Turkish, Slavic etc); all vastly different-looking people, cultures, histories and languages. Keep these videos coming!!!
How is something a social construct when you can see it? We have very different outward differences like skin color and facial structure and features. So what makes you think these differences end on the inside?
@@cody4916 Skin color, hair texture, nose shape, etc. are all phenotypical differences which all just a matter of heritage and mixing, but beyond that there is no scientific evidence that we are biologically different. In fact, humans are 99.9% genetically similar, making us one of the most homogenous species on the planet. There is but one race: the human race.
Thanks for the mention guys!! Another great video, super cool to be mentioned in it. Keep Rockin it!
That's awesome!!! Your famous now. I love this channel.
Sorry, I'm too famous to talk to you now. *adjusting sunglasses* Hahah JK. I love this channel too, glad you like it!
I think it's difficult to completely eliminate discrimination from the world, but I think it's important to understand that humans originally have the same origin and eliminate stereotypes.
We are all cousins!! We all descend Mitochondrial Eve & Y Chromosome Adam. We are all kin. Racism needs to go.
Don't think most people know about that, so they'll just assume you're lying or making it up. But at least I know. Science surprises us sometimes.
Garrett Kwalism what??? 🤣
God made man in his image male and female and from that came the whole nation , man his going to learn their lesson the hard way when they stand before the judgement seat of God ,realizing that we are fighting and killing our own brothers and sisters. The white man and the black man are brothers and sisters by blood . Including every other nations . But particular the white and black. There is going to be a big surprise on judgement day but unfortunately its going to be too late for som people , because some of us are so hateful and ignorant.
@@christophernelson4824 preach it!
If we are all cousins I guess we are all insest as well!
Yes! I am from Malaysia and to be part of the Malay race, either you are born into it or you can apply to be one! To apply, you would have to prove that you adhere to the Malay culture. So race is not only something you are born into but a culture you choose to practice.
Semitic people (Jews and Arabs) do something similar. Race is like family. The biological members and the adopted members (people who assimilate and immerse into the culture after they integrated)
Absolutely! Great point. This is honestly how most of the world operated for a long time. In fact, in many places in 2021, it still operates this way. In the US...people don't really see each other as just Americans unfortunately. Instead of just saying "I'm American"...we are expected to say "I'm black". So...my skin tone becomes my main identifier instead of me being American. People from outside the US are not used to that. It's something somewhat unique to the US...and it's stupid. We don't see each other as the same even when we are all American. That's how race-focused the US is...and most of the population is still brainwashed from it.
Love how you make these concepts interesting and understandable! You are a good teacher! One negative aspect of race that I see, is people using it to justify bad behavior; as if they dont have a choice, its what they are destined to be doing (gang membership comes to mind). Or worse yet, as if its some right they are entitled to (the KKK comes to mind).
One thing I fail to understand, is how being of Hispanic origin, got to be its own category (ethnicity rather than race). Its all very confusing.
I think the fact that we come in so many colors is kinda awesome, and quite beautiful. Lumping people into categories is kinda useless when each person is unique.
Hmm
As I understand it Hispanics were classified as white for a while by the census bureau, then separated to their own category to limit immigration, then switched back to white in one of the world wars in order to increase the labor force. After that I lost track because it's all so damn arbitrary.
Teach CRT!
Also, “race” was invented for the explicit purpose of establishing a hierarchy for poor and working class whites. This was to prevent Blacks and non-property owning and poor whites from maintaining common cause with one another. Our species is genetically “programmed” to rank people; race gave poorer whites someone to feel superior to - by this, they could accept being poor, at least feeling that they were “superior” to a whole other group of people. This remains true to this day. You can hear it in the language. We hear of Black people that they should “know their place”, and not get “uppity”. Racism isn’t the problem. “Race” is just an easy way to force a wedge between natural political and economic allies. This division is what the Radical Right is all about. It’s what conservatives are most determined to “conserve.” It’s not really race…it’s status, caste, social hierarchies.
BINGO!
Her ability to present this without absolute biting sarcasm or some way to tear down these people considered historical "giants" is admirable. I couldn't do it.
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Europeans seriously thought that they were the only ones that had "history?"
No, they knew better. Some of the best scholarship on African people are in European countries. There is some good scholarship in American Universities also, but until recently it was in what they call “Special Collections” and you need special permission to enter the room. While I was working on my Masters AND Dissertation at a HBCU in the South I took a low paying job at a tier 1 Southern University just to have access to their “Special Collections”. They had everything: biographies, autobiographies, poems, drafts of original plays, lots of things written under the umbrella of the WPA, 78 records, original jazz records, original gospel records, artwork, etc. They had everything. Which is why I always say wypipo are not as clueless about our history as they pretend.
if in mediaeval ages then no, they knew about china, turkey, india, iran(that was persia), spain had a lot of arabs in south part and etc
and many historians of that time traveled to india or china to learn about culture so apparently they wrote books about X country history
There is only one race the human race .
Yes, in general most Europeans didn't travel to other places to know otherwise.
@@aaronenglish5929 they traveled and met others but still erroneously believed that they were some how "superior."
I have watched a few of your informative videos, and they have me wanting to finish the book "Lies my Teacher Told me". I am also so glad many of my primary school history/social studies teachers pulled information from college text books and taught the controversy of history in class (even if it was not part of test).
I've read the two that was put out? Great 📚 books!
Teach CRT!
My great great great ancestors use to roam free on the plains. No debt, no money, the land was plentiful. The government sent Indian children to boarding skills to be “civilized” they learned what race was and how to contribute to the capitalist system.
This is so sad on how our nation came to be - from the backs of Africans. Why are there so much wickedness?!
Gasp, you mean the “concept” of race evolved around the same time of European discovery and exploration? Who’d have thought!
Elaborate on "European discovery" - I don't remember them discovering anything? Exploration, yes.
Did you notice the Jesuit twist, inventing the Kazhar Hebrew caste and linking it to the whiteness group.!
This is a narrow minded half truth.
Did you know the ashanti tribe of Africa actually kidnapped and enslaved white Europeans decades before the same African tribe began selling black people to the Europeans as slaves. And contrary to her statement that many indentured servants were freed after a few years and became land owners. The truth is indentured servants were treated worse simple because they were not owned so the master had little regard for their wellbeing. While slaves were provided food and shelter. Indentured servants were made to pay for these necessities there by extending their length of servitude
It would take many indentured servants generations to become free. But the truth doesn't fit the false narratives they want you to believe. But I swear it's all true and little research shall enlighten you and the truth will finally set us all free at last
@@boatman352 Indentured vs enslaved, a battle of who had it worst. The person denied freedom vs the one who gained freedom but no independence. A history that once again repeated itself in a so called freed people, in the system of sharecropping . No doubt that there were systems developed to maintain a force of labour at no cost to an elite class but to waste time in comparing enslavement vs indentured servitude, for what purpose?
@@jessicabe3278 Well said my friend
Bravo 👏! Please keep it coming! Our nation needs to know how it has come a long and you do fabulous videos on how so! Bless you!
Teach CRT!
The only positive outcome over race that I was involved in, was that in high school I as a black student was selected for the Federal Educational Opportunity Program, which resulted from the efforts of Dr. Martin Luther King, which provided money for admission to the University of California. I went onward thereafter to obtain my MD degree! Dr. A. Terrace
Human beings are pretty close, physically, emotionally, and intellectually. It's about time we leave racism behind.
Not until they give us our land back, that's the only way they can show they sorry. Let me paint this Picasso for the slow minds EG. Your father is a theif, then steals all my father's wealth leave us hungry. Years later both our. Father's die, you are still rich from that stolen wealth, you see me in the streets, poor. You claim you not like your father yet enjoy the stolen riches but never give non back. to the me in the streets. This how sorry they are only verbally not really not literally. Peep game
@ZBop ain't no harm in saying "my ansestors F'd Up" or a least acknowledging it just like saying my daddy messed up if he did,. You will learn from their mistakes and grow. Don't cover up for them and say "We can't blame any one for their actions" or say "we can't blame them coz it was as long ago as the beginning of time" it wasn't that long ago even post slavery extreme racism was def not that long ago. We don't have the right to put blame on any one but karma will do the blaming, nature will do blaming, God will do the blaming however you wanna put it no one WILL do EVIL and remain unpanished. Remberthat
Other than the point I made above I agree with you a 100 percent, but also acknowledge that you are a rare Brid most white people at least the ones I come across don't have that in their minds at all they give zero fucks. Peace to you
What All people (all races) need to do is Relearn/remember to connect with nature and remember who they are we all come from Souce(orGod) this is a hologram reality Meaning (things seem to exist but dont because one moment cannot be graspt A COMPLETELY NEW moment is always born then old moment vanishes. so meaning time is an illusion future does not exist in real time only presence exist, it itself is undefinable)the same frabrick that makes the plants, animals, air, earth, darkness, light etc, is the same frabrick YOU are made of. This innerstanding Alone shifts the whole perspective of an imaginary "I" and other we then realize I am you and you are me, one is connected to even the plants to even the soil the plannet herself is actually a living being(Devine feminine) so there no question of hate or separation because, hating another simply means hating One's self that's the paradox of life. As people our Intellect cheats us And make us forget about the fundamental principles of existence .... Peace and blessings to you and your family, thank you for the mature conversation.
I find it interesting to think about today's ideas of race being tied to physical traits (amount of melanin in a person's skin etc.) Is an idea that was used by the white ruling class to unify and oppress non-white peoples. I've always been confused with modern views of racial identity and felt the urge to rebel from simple standard definitions of race. Most people would look at me and call me white/Caucasian but I like to think of myself as Ameican of largely European origin.
Danielle - I love the new format and everything about your delivery. Keep up the awesome work!
You're beautiful, Mary! I love you!
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Race is a fact. As Ms. Bainbridge said it started as a marker of kinship. We are all born into a specific social group and it is completely natural for people to protect said social group and try to perpetuate it. Today, we live in a different world than we did 100 years ago, even different than the world we lived in 30 years ago and the reason is technology. In my childhood I would play with my neighbors, my relatives and my classmates and some of them fell into the 3 categories. If I traveled abroad, I could play with a foreign child for a couple days and never know of him further in life. In my late teens and twenties I traveled and met great women my age with whom I many times dreamt of building a life together. Their beauty was unprecedented to me and yet they were ordinary girls in their country. Unless I had a ton of money at my disposal it was incredibly hard to keep in touch, harder even to get to know each other. I ended up marrying a foreigner from the other side of the world, but most of my close people married among the same group of people so it turns out that we pretty much know everyone in our circle, or within our race. Within this circle not everyone is white, nor black, nor Asian, nor middle eastern, nor any other specific ethnicity, that’s not what constitutes the race as a kinship marker, we were just all educated more or less the same by parents and grandparents that also had a similar background and the easy thing to do is stay within the comfort zone. We miss so much from this world because we don’t want to see further, we might be right in most things within our group which doesn’t mean other groups are wrong. Technology allows the average person to develop relationships with people from anywhere in the world. My best friend with who I speak several times a week and we love each other dearly lives 5,000 miles away from me, we met later in life and the last time we saw each other in person was two years ago and for a few languages. Our native languages are different, our religious background is also different, yet I can say without a doubt that we’re very much closer than I am with my brother and sister. Sometimes we might not be compatible at all with other cultures and that’s ok as well, but to know that there re billions of people that can be part of your life and limit yourself to a few thousand is a waste. I’ve been to weddings where I know more than half of the people attending both from the bride’s and the groom’s side! And neither of them is my relative, but some relatives of mine attending those weddings are related to the groom and the wife by marriage and we pretty much all know each other from somewhere and have acquaintances in common.
I could understand many centuries ago people don’t wanting to get married outside their circle which is the same as to say with another race for fear of some genetic problem on the offspring, which without today’s scientific knowledge makes sense, ironically, marrying and reproducing within one’s close circle tends to have marriages between relatives whose offspring DO HAVE genetic problems and deficiencies. I wonder if that’s why lately members of royal families have been marrying non royals, because the circle was too small and they all were somehow related.
Beauty is relative, just look at paintings from different centuries and pictures from various decades of last century and this century and it’s evident that beauty is a trend, at some point being fat was appealing and it meant wealth because the person was well fed and then some time periods people consider beauty having a visible ribcage!
One of the many ironies of human beings!
I could watch you teach this content all day! You’re a great educator. Thank you
Damn! This was incredible! I've been hoping that you would cover this topic for some time and I was not disappointed! I hope that if you do more videos about this in the future i.e. dig further into it that you'll continue to do so as unflinchingly as you did this. Please, please, please keep up the good work!
Also, I recently read Nell Painter's "The History of White People" and was honestly blown away by how absurd some of the early in/out group designations were (as opposed to the completely sane and rational ones we use now??) and how the negative 'othering' of those from out groups has never changed.
I am a women in my sixties and I don't recall when, where and how and who weighed in the term Black being changed to African American. I also do not recall any of us being asked what we thought or how we (other Black people) could have a chance to elaborate on it. All I know is all of a sudden it was on applications, the Census, etc. Look, I don't denounce that that I am a descendent of Africa and proud of that fact but being Black in America also means that I am a descendent from other people, one example of many is Native American, so why just pick one name whom I am associated with, hence, African American, exactly why Black for me covers the whole gambit. I would also like to mention, the way that I see it, doesn't race apply to being from the human race?
There is only one race the human race
I hear you. My 23andme revealed I have African, European, Asian, and Native American ancestry, but I’m called black. Not mixed, nothing that acknowledges my other DNA because it’s not even known how I got the DNA.
I am what the woke community calls " pre civil war mullato, meaning I have mixed heritage that happened prior to the civil war. My phenotype is "mixed" because my ancestry is 10+ generations of mixed people marrying mixed people because of race laws. So because my mixing happened long ago I'm not mixed by their standards....but not black enough because of my appearance, the irony.
I love videos like this. It goes to show we as people regardless of “race” need to think for ourselves and develop our minds. Let other people tell it and/or think for you they can/will lead you astray into nonsense.
My mom’s paternal grandparents were married the day after her grandma’s 21st birthday; the family story is that her parents didn't approve because he was not 100% Swedish (he was 50% German, 25% Scots-Irish & 25% Pennsylvania Dutch).
What?!
The term “Race” was never mentioned any of my anthropology classes. The term “Cultural ethnicity “ was the term used in describing a group of people. The word “Race” should be explained as only a word used by the Colonial/ empire
Please dont try to find a explanation Mr Gergen, Colonial Empire you say ....then name them !!!! How do you become a Empire ??? well its easy you conquer...you invade territories...true the History of this Planet how many Empire have been created ......plenty my friend , plenty.
Eugene Kendrick : you are correct, but I did not see Belgium, Norway, Finland and those countries that had one or three colonies as empires.
It’s just an American thing. If America didn’t exist the term white people wouldnt exist
@@joseph-ignaceguillotin2523 This is a strawman, race is a manmade concept, not a biological one. Based on actual facts, I can also argue that race is african, based on ancient human DNA or migrations. All the arrows point out of africa.
Because universitiys ARE TRASH contaminated with leftie propaganda
The origin of the word "caucasian" as a synonym for "white" is itself insightful. Johann Blumenbach first applied "caucasian" to Europeans in 1795, and part of his reasoning is that, to him, the people of the Caucasus Mountains were "the most beautiful race of men." That is to say, he was prejudiced to think of Europeans as beautiful by default. But again, so were his contemporaries, which is why the term stuck.
I've known a few people who lived in that part of the world, and none of them have appreciated the comparison. Small sample, I know, but not surprising all the same.
Blumenbach was the primary scientist of the time that came up with the term and theory of race, 5 of them, based on skull shapes. But since the advent, discovery and eventual complete mapping of the human genome, we know all of what he thought to be true was complete untrue. There is no scientific, biological basis for race.
Yeah, but people in Caucasus aren’t European, so that makes no sense. Why to name Europeans that if you think actual Caucasians are somehow inferior to them? In Russia hating people of Caucasus is the most popular kind of racism after anti Semitism. Russians think people fro. Caucasus are somehow “black”.
Margarita M. Wait.. so blacks are Africans and the actual Caucasians now..?
@@margaritam.9118 you're absolutely right, I've seen it myself (I'm "black" tho) in the white genealogy forums of reddit. They call them sand-n-words and believe the caucasians are moors just like some black nationalists believe caucasians are moors. I can't confirm it, but I think it has something to do with an Etruria/Rome and Eritrea/Ethiopia connection with some egyptian politics sprinkled on top. Who knows.
@@snakepliskin23 rather, the europeans that trace themselves to Egypt, prefer to claim caucasian (just think romanians/gypsies and sicilians/iberians for example) than to claim "black" which I'm sure they feel black is more relative to the nubian Egyptian stock. It's all complicated, I still don't quite have a grasp on it.
In Mexico, the word "race" is still used to described kinship or groups of people. We refer to ourselves (the Mexicans) as "La Raza" or "The Race".
Excellent video! I also enjoyed reading and teaching "White by Law" by Ian Haney-Lopez to my students. It goes over many of the points you talk about but it looks closely at the legal cases that served to construct whiteness in the United States as a legal and social category.
There is only one race the human race.diffent cultures. One race only. Pass it on please please please
The sooner humankind reaches that “Star Trek” universe (no racism, no poverty, no need for want) the better off we will be. Because all these problems and barriers are human made and can all be corrected by humans. Hopefully we as a species will reach that point in the future some day.
I am sorry to see that PBS has decided not to continue their partnership with you. The content of the series is just what most Americans need right now. We need a good education on topics that will help us understand the mistakes that have been made so we stop making them.
An often overlooked aspect when discussing race is what to do with mixed people. Starting from enlightenment reasoning we can quickly observe the faulty foundation of biological determinism by observing how the hierarchy incorporates mixed race people. In the US this led to the laughable one drop rule which meant no matter how white you looked or acted, if you had even a drop of colored blood you could be considered colored (white supremacists beware). In other places like South America they used words like mulattos for biracial kids, then quadroon for quarter mixed, quindroon, etc. both of these systems break down into arbitrary fractional races with no discernible reason when taken to their LOGICAL ends. Once we deconstruct our enlightenment conceptions of race many great conversations can be had about the existential experience of race, something I hope y’all discuss in the future!
In Mexico and other Spain-dominated colonies there were like +25 racial categories, each with their own rights, with "white born in spain" as the highest one, followed by criollos (white people born in the colony), and that includes mestizos (european+native), mulato (native+ black) (i think) and all the possible combinations of all of those, cause we had a bit more interbreeding here than in the US, resulting in that mess that seems impossible to classify
I am from Brazil. In Brazil we have ppl from all colors and different ethnic backgrounds. My mother is half Portuguese half Italian and my father is half native half black. I am mixed and nobody had any problem with that but in the US some people try to force me to identify as black. But just because my father is half black I have to deny all my other origins? That’s racist! Why not embrace them all and love me for who I am? A mix of all these beautiful ethnic backgrounds!
A. T. : Yeah it's a mess! It's so sad now darker Latinos are bleaching their skin to appear lighter! It's a complete mess! So sad!😢
The people we consider as black people in the United States like African-Americans and people who are afro-latino and people who are afro Caribbean, all of them have European and Native admixture. All of those people are mixed race people so what do we do with them. Those are the people we consider black when they aren't 100% African
@@sumimaind I think you missed the point of what they may have been trying to tell you.
The "hispanic" ethnic/racial group was invented in the 1970s.
And the concept of race is different when you go to countries like Brazil
Humans are so Funny right. 😊
I wish people would stop obsessing over race.
no they shouldn't,I have a quick look at the comments and i knew I was right never been more right
@@messianic_scam What?
@@FactStorm
race is real and genetic idiot
@@messianic_scam Busted, coward. Little butt-hurt snowflake lmao
Truly SOLID WORK on these videos. Good stuff!!
I truly wish some "well intentioned" celebrities would promote such material instead of just appealing to the immediacy of human impulses & desires.
People are different.
The causes of these differences are partly genetic.
The categories we use to talk about the differences are social constructs.
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Thank you for bringing you for bringing up the fact that they once categorized whit people differently. I am of slavic heritage. When my family immigrated here in the early 1900's there was a lot of racism against them. There are even stories of my family just narrowly avoiding the KKK because my family were not Angl-Saxon or Protestant.
So which ones are the anglo saxons because Im confused. Please don't be mad but i thought all European people were considered Anglo Saxon. Blame it on the U.S. educational system
@@tsutt8390 hey! The anglo saxons are the people that speaks English as their native language, that is primarily people from the UK, Ireland and their descendants.
Me, for example, as I am from Spain, i am Hispanic because that is my native language. Wrongly people consider hispanic to be a race or an ethnicity but that doesn't make sense to me because a lot of different people of different races can be hispanic. That could be considered the same with the anglo saxons, but yeah that is how wrong is the race system in the US
I would like to know what group of people have benefited the most from the creation of the concept of race and how did they benefit?
Great question. That's the money question right there.
I liked the fact that this video opened up with the statement "Race was not always considered a biological or genetic category", identifying the evolving change of what Race is, which now is a discredited concept in human biology. An uneducated person who labels another person's race by what they look are usually inaccurate. The color or physical traits one carries belongs to their ethnicity, which stems from a smaller group that has branched off from or evolved from a larger group that may have similar physical appearances. Race and ethnicity are used to categorize certain sections of the population. Race describes physical traits, and ethnicity refers to cultural identification.
Wow, the school system really has done a disservice by not sharing such information. I would of loved to learn this on black history month or any day of the year, for that matter back when I was in school.
I don't care. Pay reparations.
UA-cam algorithms has done it again
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They promote lies again
@@khadim_almasih because they’re pretending race doesn’t exist
@@khadim_almasih how is saying a video is promoting lies racism?
The Pale 👨 did this to the world who is he ..WTF..
yup more anti-white propaganda for the low iq masses
Oh my goodness. .
You are so awesome!!
If You aren't a teacher already hun -
You most definitely should be!! 💯
I enjoyed the information and I will be back to hear more ...
You are so informative..
Listening to you is so easy to do...
You have a very beautiful Smile..
I see a gleem in your eyes as you smile when (I feel) you feel that you may be reaching those that have no idea of all this and You may be helping the uninformed be better educated and hopefully with better knowledge and understanding people may at look others in a more caring light...
Also that things may not have to be like they were for those that have been mistreated. Perhaps maybe with more knowledge and car for others and their past experiences we all can understand one another better..
So they are not to continue down these wrong paths as those did before then....
That's what is see in your face while you speak..
You are proud with amazing knowledge.. it shows darlin'!!✌️
WE ALL ARE FAMILY IN MY BOOK...
I LOVE LIFE ...
I LOVE ANIMALS AND BABIES BECAUSE THEY ARE SO PURE/ UNTOUCHED AUTHENTIC AND REAL AND LOVING...
THEIR INSTINCTS GUIDE THEM NOT HATE OR TWISTED GAINS.. INNOCENT AND PURE NATURAL AND HONEST IS HOW PEOPLE NEED TO BE...
BUT! PEOPLE ARE SO HATEFUL NASTY PERVERTED AND TWISTED.. PEOPLE ARE TOO SELF SERVING / SELFISH AND EVIL.. THE OLE DIRTY DOLLAR IS ALL THEY CARE ABOUT& WILL DO ANYTHING TO ANYONE AND ANYTIME TO GET IT WITHOUT ANY 2ND THOUGHT!! I hate that!!
MAKES ME SICK...
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I NEVER PLAN TO HURT ANYONE . .BUT I DO HAVE THE DEVINE ANIMAL INSTINCTS TO PROTECT MY LIFE AND THAT OF MY OFFSPRING ...
GOD PROTECT ANY AND ALL THAT ATTEMPT TO MAKE THE STUPID MISTAKE OF TRYING TO INCLUDE ME AND MINE IN THEIR TWISTED DEEDS..
ME AND MINE ARE PRICELESS...
CAN'T BE BROUGHT OR SOLD ...
NEVER CORRUPTED...
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EXCEPT HUMAN!!🙄
A HUMAN SHOULD BE CONSIDERED LOWEST ON THE FOOD CHAIN...
THEY ARE NOT THE TOP!!
BUT AGAIN... THIS IS MY OPINION!!
I'M NOT LIKE OTHER PEOPLE..
I AM GRATEFUL FOR MY ANIMAL'S AND MY LOVE FOR ALL OF GOD'S CREATURES FOR THAT..
I'D TRUST AN ANIMAL BEFORE ANY HUMAN ANY DAY!!
I SAY THAT WITH A SMILE AND A WINK!!
WHEN PEOPLE LEARN TO STOP BEING SO DAMN EVIL AND CORRUPT FOR PROFIT AND OTHER ( SHIT .. most humans act like THEY WANT TO PERCEIVE animals TI BE LIKE) when people just STOP...
MAYBE I CAN RE ASSESS THE WAY I LOOK AT MOST OF THEM.. TIL THEN I'M SAFER AND HAPPIER AROUND THOSE I LOVE AND TRUST...
ALL ANIMALS..
I SADLY SAY - ALTHOUGH I TOTALLY ENJOY THE KNOWLEDGE YOU SHARE AND BRING TO PEOPLE -
THE MOST OF THEM REFUSE TO CARE OR DO DIFFERENT SO THAT WE ALL CAN BE HAPPY...
BUT I WILL BE BACK TO LISTEN AND LEARN!
I APPRECIATE YOU !!
THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR STUDYING ON THIS TO GAIN HAVE AND SHARE WITH OTHERS SO THEY TOI CAN BE BETTER ENLIGHTENED!!
AND BETTER EDUCATED ON WHAT SHOULDA NEVER BE DONE... 💯
BIG HUG 🤗
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So, does "race" even mean anything? Scientific cataloging of physiological attributes is relevant, but what we colloquially refer to as "race" seems do be so subjective that it ends up having very little meaning. Plus, for our daily lives, is it even a valuable concept? I don't think I can conceive a situation where defining someone's race could be of value to me, or anyone for that matter (again, outside of a scientific study environment)
It's important to distinguish between colloquial use and scientific/academic use. There's some value to colloquial use (for the sake of communication) because it does have meaning to people.
From a biological standpoint? There are no firm barriers where (pre-Columbian) populations show great differences between one group and their neighbors, though the Pacific Ocean comes closest. Moreover, most genetic variation is found _within_ groups, not _between_ them.
From a sociological standpoint? Race is an important part of how people see other people. It shouldn't be, but it is. Race and how people react to it affects everyone, both those who perpetuate racism and those who suffer from it (and those aren't necessarily separate groups).
Social science is still science.
TheTechnicalNirl "Cataloging physiological attributes" is NOT scientific or relevant. As the video explained, it's pseudo-science like the flat earth theory.
Biologically, "race" is much more similar to the original meaning of the word: a group of people connected by common ancestry. Other than that, most other ideas attached to race are just social construct.
0:46 a fun game where you try to get to the finish line before your opponents.
It started with two black Africans falling in love and fast forward thousands of years later here we all are today
hmmm new evidence points towards the north in Greece
Make sure that your children are learning in their classes. Ask them about their day. Look through their books and check their papers.
Thank you so much for providing us real history. What you are doing is so important for generations to come.
fake anti-white history to support black supremacy.
Thank you for the clarification
I specifically searched for races in US and I found this video and in the first 30 seconds I am in love with your voice and accent
First- I did learn about these things in school, but I’ll say I learned about them most in depth in college. But thinking about it, in elementary school you have social studies and not just history, so you learn geography and a little bit of social sciences in addition to some history. So the history isn’t that in depth, but you’re also 10yo or younger in elementary school. In middle school you do social studies also which I know they start learning about ancient cultures and world religions, etc and then in 8th grade you take American history. I don’t know what you guys took, but in high school i had 3 years of world history, one year of government and one year of economics. In college, I took African American literature, and that is where I learned a ton of American history because you have to understand the history before you can understand how it relates to the writing. So really, when I see people talking at what they didn’t learn in school, I am usually surprised, but when you look at it, if you took classes like I did, you really don’t get much time literally learning American history. Makes sense. It bothers me so much when people say they didn’t learn anything useful in school- what are the odds that for 13 years literally all of your teachers did nothing and wasted your time... and the other 30 kids in the class, too... and their own... all i can think of is Jake Paul’s stupid ass diss track to teachers when I see people saying that stuff online.
Ah, yes - the Four Races:
Black
Mongolian
Irish
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Vaporwave should've won WW2 don't @ me
Ape man Commeth Just STFU talking crap.
lol what a troll
Scots and,sadly,welsh are Gaelic/Celtic too.
I disagree, about the brain, Im black and a straight A student with scholarships yet, the majority of my white classmates dropped out of school
This woman is a true rock star!
no her writers are she and everyone else working for pbs is reading from a script well maybe not john green
I find it incredibly interesting to look at racial classifications and how they changed over time, because it shows just how arbitrary the different racial categories are. My favourite example of this is the Finns who for a long time were classified as 'Mongoloids', or Asians, and when Finnish immigrants first settled in the United States in the late 19th - early 20th century a common term they were called was 'China Swedes', and arguing that they were not European and should be included under the Asian Exclusion Act.
Yes The Sami indigenous people of Finland.Some people ignorantly believe that only Asians have monolids,when in reality Africans and Europeans also can have monofolds.
I am Aboriginal Indigenous First Nations Native American. HUALAPAI, KIKAPU & YAQUI TRIBES.
Most of the native ppl died becuse of exposure to new diseases
@WethePeople Historians?
Yeah brought by white people ,look it up.
Well, I connect everything to the Bible , some may say it's not real, well guess what? Can anybody tell me how we were made, and how we have all the cute little animals, beautiful trees, or the flowers that grow and make everything look so colorful? We sometimes have to go into our history to get ready for our future. If you don't know the spiritual war you are fighting, then how can you fight it. We were all lied to.
Lol and guns
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This isn't part of the origin of race in the Americas, but a lot of what you were speaking about reminded me of the way that Nazis spoke about Jews during the 1930s-40s. There is extensive documentation of charts of eye color, hair color, etc. that were supposed indicators of being Jewish (along with, of course, the stereotype of nose size). For example, one reason that my great grandmother was able to get out of Austria during this period was because she was a redhead; her forged papers were less suspect because she didn't "look Jewish".
alpo 702 shut up!
alpo 702 I'm from Germany and they didn't, if would talk like that over here you would go to jail!
@@chilln2009 just for talking yikes
alpo 702 if that’s all you know about Africa then you’re not helping your case.
@alpo 702 What good did they do? Besides a temporary economic sugar rush
Great episode! You could have mentioned the impact of Charles Darwin teaching. Great job, very informative.
As a Native American the importance is not the people of ancient America rather the ancient spirituality of ancient America😮
Would love to know why Darwin - who was profoundly racist in what he taught - gets so much attention in our education system and government run museums.
Davina, where did you get the idea that Darwin was "profoundly racist?" He actually followed the evidence of the common descent of humanity and was an abolitionist. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/charles-darwin-the-abolitionist
Davina, here's an article that hopefully will clear your misunderstanding: www.newscientist.com/article/dn16503-hatred-of-slavery-drove-darwin-to-emancipate-all-life/
Because he created the evolution theory?
Becuase he created the evolution theory. Everyone was racist back then it doesn't make it right but he was brainwashed
Darvina, Darwin was a top intellectual from an advanced culture which had created internal combustion engines, massive ships of war, complex scientific equipment --- a culture light years beyond the grass hut cultures of some of the natives he observed. He made the same evaluation of their position in his evolutionary theory that any educated 19th century man would have made. You're looking through the distorting lense of our current age.
People tend to compartmentalizations for everything. Especially when they use financial roots to justify the distinctions. Including dehumanizing an entire group of persons and adding or subtracting natural traits found in a given part of the world.
Teach CRT!
Now we need to get this education for everyone in schools raw unedited truth and Facts💯🔥
Why? None of it is true
@ John Smith I totally agree
@Stephanie race is a biological reality, it’s like saying different breeds of birds are social constructs
Excellent. THis should be a requirement for all school age children to watch. It provides explanation of race in simple terms and provides better understanding on how Americans view of race came to be....