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Subject: Re: [huml-comment] Article On Race
- From: Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>
- To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>,'Rex Brooks' <rexb@starbourne.com>, humanmarkup-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
- Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 05:50:27 -0800
Title: Re: [huml-comment] Article On
Race
I thought I would reply to this today since I can't really allow
myself to get into my next project in depth with our meeting today
scheduled for a mere 3.5 hours away. Once I get started it is rarely
less than 5 and usually more than 6 hours before I come up for
air.
So I will start with a relevant quote from the article that sums
up the gist for me:
'"There is wide agreement among anthropologists and human
geneticists that, from a biological standpoint, human races do not
exist," Sergio Pena and colleagues at the Universidade Federal de
Minas Gerais in Brazil and the University of Porto in Portugal wrote
in their report, published this week in the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences.
"Yet races do exist as social constructs," they
said.'
Here here! If I were a cultural anthropologist, I would be
chomping at the bit to get involved in making a language to sort
through the legacy of misinformation and miscommunication amongst the
extended clan groups which have grown into odd collection of
communities which identify themselves as races. The current political
snafoobar of the inestimable Southern Anachronism Trent Lott would
certainly provide a wealth of samples from which to draw. Isn't
appropriate that perhaps his strongest supporters are those who would
keep him right where he is, while they sharpen their knives for the
feast of '04?
The Human species itself is not as well differentiated
genetically from our primate and mammallian cousins as our forebearers
wanted to think.
I think HumanML has great potential as a area where growth
opportunities will abound in our near future, just is disentangling
the race myth alone. Translation services ought to be pretty
marketable.
At 12:44 PM -0600 12/17/02, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/12/17/genes.race.reut/index.html
Our conclusions match those of this research.
Race is a social construct, therefore,
the term if used, would be declared in a secondary
which derives properties from
the primary categories.
len
Ciao,
Rex
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Rex Brooks
Starbourne Communications Design
1361-A Addison, Berkeley, CA 94702 *510-849-2309
http://www.starbourne.com * rexb@starbourne.com
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