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Racism now and then

...... Racism is a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among human races determine cultural or individual achievement, superiority and inferiority. Race, racism and white supremacy have been viewed as ideas and attitudes developing out of the material conditions of society, which invented them (Brooke Heagerty and Nelson Peery as qtd in Institute for the Study of the Science of Society 2003). These ideas and attitudes grew out of the capitalist system, which dominated economic and social conditions and relations through the centuries and later spread worldwide through an expansion of imperialism. Race and racism are now very glaring realities, which characterize todays world. Findings of a research on the DNA of global human populations, however, showed that, genetically speaking, race does not exist in humans (Templeton 2006). It was a paper, entitled, Human Races: a Genetic and Evolutionary Perspective. It said that, although there are genetic variations among human being, most of these are individual variations at 85% and do not establish or support sub-lineages of humanity. It established, instead, that notion of race only as a real cultural, political and economic concept in society, not as a biological concept. Traits spread out of Africa to all of