Anthropologist Alan Goodman says that “to understand why the idea of race is a biological myth requires a major paradigm shift.”

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Anthropologist Alan Goodman says that “to understand why the idea of race is a biological myth requires a major paradigm shift.”

What does he mean by this? Did the film present anything that shifted your thinking in a major way? If so, what? Is it difficult to make this shift? Why?
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Crank · Answer 1 · 2022-09-17T09:09:49+03:00

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Race, for a long time, was a concept that was accepted, not only by the scientific community, but also, by society at large.

With time, the concept of human race was found to be a biological myth, a social construct, and while this kind of thinking is true in the scientific community, in society, many people still believe that human races are real.

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