Please please I need someone to help me with this assignment. 1- According to th

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Please please I need someone to help me with this assignment.

1- According to the science of race, how many races are there?

- 1,740 specific races

- 4 major races

- 30 races

- Since race is a socially constructed category, there is not a scientifically specific answer that is correct

2- The name of the movement that notoriously argued for genetic improvements to the human population through scientific manipulation is:

- eugenics

- social Darwinism

- phrenology

- the Human Genome Project

3- _________________ refers to the belief that racial differences were the result of evolutionary differences among the races.

- Cultural heritage

- Ethnocentrism

- Racial hypothesis

- Social Darwinism

4- __________ is when many different cultural groups coexist in a society without any of the groups losing their unique qualities.

- pluralism

- assimilation

- segregation

- utopia

5- The lines between racial and ethnic groups are:

- separated by nature and nurture

- very obvious

- vague and unclear

- historically defined

-6- John is very proud of his Italian and French background. Therefore, it can be said that John is very proud of his ___________________.

- racial background

- interpersonal background

- ethnicity

- social heritage

7- When a minority group is defined as a race and then negative characteristics are attributed to that group, it is called:

- ethnocentric

- racialism

- racism

- 1,740 specific races

- 4 major races

- 30 races

- Since race is a socially constructed category, there is not a scientifically specific answer that is correct

Explanation / Answer

Answer 1 - 4 major races.

There are 4 major races in the world - caucasian, mongoloid or asian, negroid or black and australoid. These are fruther divided into 30 subgroups.

Answer 2 - eugenics.

Eugenics deals with discovery of genes responsible for diseases and traits, and focuses on invention of techniques to manipulate the human genome.

Answer 3 - Social Darwinism.

Social Darwinism extends the concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest int the context of society and explained the differences of races based on hypothesis related to evolution.

Answer 4 - Utopia.

Utopia is the word given for 'perfect place' without any social, economic, political, religious, scientific or feminist problems.

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