The Myth of Race | Sharad Paul | TEDxAuckland

Sharad argues that the modern perception of race is wrong and that science and the story of Vitamin D and Folic acid tell their own story about race and skin colour.
Dr. Sharad P. Paul is an academic specialising in skin cancer surgery, both in New Zealand and Australia. His Skin Surgery Clinic has one of the largest series of skin cancer patients worldwide, with over 100,000 consultations and 35,000 operations since the clinic was established in 1996.
Award winning Sharad has served on the National Commission of UNESCO, and teaches creative writing to disadvantaged children by personally visiting schools once a week, and by funding school libraries. These initiatives are supported through the model of social entrepreneurship created by projects such as The Baci Lounge, an award-winning bookstore, within his own Baci Foundation.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

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  • @TheOliveMistress
    @TheOliveMistress4 жыл бұрын

    I consider Dr. Sharad Paul one of God's greatest gifts to humanity and am proud to know him personally. I hope his kindness and care spread to all those who hear or meet him.

  • @skininyourgame

    @skininyourgame

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you. Very kind of you. Apologies for the delay in responding but I don't check social media or posts often.

  • @thealple
    @thealple2 жыл бұрын

    The myth of race has not served humanity well. Thank you Doctor for your science and your heart🙏🏾

  • @Eddie_Bear_702
    @Eddie_Bear_7023 жыл бұрын

    If we were all the same color all we would do is pick new things to cause division and discrimination.

  • @griffincontracting

    @griffincontracting

    3 жыл бұрын

    This is absolutely true. Humans love to put things into categories.

  • @Cityj0hn

    @Cityj0hn

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@griffincontracting It's not just humans, differentiation is the hallmark of intelligence, even machine intelligence or businesses. Whereever you have intelligence you will have increasingly higher resolutions of differentiation which aides the intelligence in making choices.

  • @looneygoon6514

    @looneygoon6514

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well if we were all the same colour to begin with there wouldn't be new things to discriminate about in the beginning

  • @strategic1710

    @strategic1710

    2 жыл бұрын

    I say this all the time too. Although it would be much more difficult as I think the reason we divide based on skin color is because it’s so glaring and obvious, whereas things like eye color are not.

  • @chrisbennett6260

    @chrisbennett6260

    Жыл бұрын

    @@strategic1710 its all excuses

  • @Tt-iu4vk
    @Tt-iu4vk2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the talk. Good to hear different voices on this subject. Great speaker.

  • @CBaule-wm2xv
    @CBaule-wm2xv2 жыл бұрын

    I really wonder why these types of videos tend to have very low views compared to others. This topic is very important.

  • @memphisakan4691

    @memphisakan4691

    Жыл бұрын

    Guilty complex probably or race science has not died

  • @russman3787

    @russman3787

    Ай бұрын

    Because they’re what we refer to as “inconvenient facts”.

  • @Pradeep_889
    @Pradeep_8893 жыл бұрын

    All those people who feel superior by their skin colour should watch this video.

  • @cyndimanka

    @cyndimanka

    2 жыл бұрын

    I’m white. 63. I’ve never felt superior. I wasn’t raised that way.

  • @Calamity8

    @Calamity8

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@cyndimanka your not white your European decedent

  • @adriancarlos9155

    @adriancarlos9155

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@cyndimanka Society raised you that way even if you had good parents who didn't fill your head up with rubbish of colour

  • @mikeaskme3530
    @mikeaskme35304 жыл бұрын

    I cant wait to read all the youtube graduates try to dispute what this man is saying.

  • @mynameudste

    @mynameudste

    4 жыл бұрын

    mike askme agreed

  • @dyloak6450

    @dyloak6450

    Жыл бұрын

    He only means the names and divisions are made up. The genetics are not. You can tell if someone has common ancestry based on genetics, which is what people refer to when saying race.

  • @infinitekaister

    @infinitekaister

    Жыл бұрын

    @@dyloak6450 "Race" is based on phenotypical traits. "Ancestry" is an entirely different thing. Therefore, by your word, "race" doesn't exist, which is entirely true. At most DNA can tell someone's common ancestry, but even then, it's very difficult to discern. Humans are virtually all the same.

  • @dyloak6450

    @dyloak6450

    Жыл бұрын

    @@infinitekaister Nope…. race is based on common ancestry not purely what you look like. You just aren’t used to mixed race people. For example, I’m polynesian, asian, and white. None of that has to do with what I look like. But, people can see them in my appearance once I tell them. It’s not purely based on how you look…. it’s about common ancestry. I have common ancestry with other filipino people, who have common phenotypes.

  • @dyloak6450

    @dyloak6450

    Жыл бұрын

    @@infinitekaister here’s the definition if you are wondering: “common ancestry of a group of humans who shared characteristics that had developed over time.” Biologically race is purely common ancestry represented through genetics. I should know, I’ve studyied genetics: “the scientific study of genes and heredity-of how certain qualities or traits are passed from parents to offspring as a result of changes in DNA sequence.”

  • @Ms-yv5li
    @Ms-yv5li4 жыл бұрын

    A STANDING OVATION THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

  • @guineabable08
    @guineabable083 жыл бұрын

    3:46 “The mitochondria, which are the...” *spits cereal out of my mouth* POWERHOUSES OF THE CELL

  • @MrSexysPizza1

    @MrSexysPizza1

    2 жыл бұрын

    I was like "Mother of god... he said it!"

  • @scottsoden
    @scottsoden4 жыл бұрын

    We ARE one human race! Great talk!

  • @mileslogan9790
    @mileslogan97905 жыл бұрын

    Finally a ted talk that takes you somewhere....

  • @springschoicewelcomeservic3758
    @springschoicewelcomeservic37582 жыл бұрын

    This made the need for sunlight, calcium, and vitamin D much easier to understand. Because of this I looked into vitamin D deficiencies, and it was quite an insight for me. The part about diet playing a big part could explain why there are random white colored groups in parts of the world you wouldn't expect.

  • @raphaelandrews3617
    @raphaelandrews36172 жыл бұрын

    What a great speaker and talk by Sharad Paul. He explains why people are all the same colour but it the lack of vitamin D that alters what colour they become.

  • @wilazo77
    @wilazo772 жыл бұрын

    All those who feel superior by their skin color, start watching this but are unable to concentrate for too long and end up talking about the superiority of Tom Brady and the Super Bowl😵‍💫

  • @simonsimon2888
    @simonsimon28882 жыл бұрын

    "One God, One Human Race...!"

  • @deusintus2440
    @deusintus24403 жыл бұрын

    I love this guy.

  • @hughdman
    @hughdman2 жыл бұрын

    Finally, a Ted Talk that broght me to tears while.making me smile. Thank You Sharad!

  • @nicolemills4795
    @nicolemills47952 жыл бұрын

    I've been waiting for this performance for a very long time.

  • @ryannewby8032
    @ryannewby80322 жыл бұрын

    I have always believed racism is simply ignorance. This man proves that point. Any intelligent person can see the foolishness in judging a person by their skin color.

  • @4TIMESAYEAR
    @4TIMESAYEAR4 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely correct, the myth of race has not served humanity well. But unfortunately, human nature is such, they'd find another reason to hate. Poverty also has nothing to do with it. Anyone can end up poor. Most people just a paycheck away from being homeless - or a freak accident away from becoming disabled.

  • @LilKing420s

    @LilKing420s

    3 жыл бұрын

    With all due respect, I suggest that human nature is no less a myth than race. We are all only the products of the environments in which we are raised. We are not born knowing hate or racism or even love. They are all learned from our parents and the others around us. Our various different cultures gives each of us morals and values of whatever culture we happen to be born into. Where you happen to plop out of the womb has a profound effect on the opportunities available to you as you begin life. Consider that today still, 2 of every 3 humans on Earth must live on less than $10 per day and I assure you that is not by choice. Poverty has everything to do with it, not nothing.

  • @freezingdutch8180
    @freezingdutch81805 жыл бұрын

    Your last quote got me good. Being I presume a well-taugt scientist, the ability to inspire people is with you. Thanks for the lecture.

  • @robinhampshire8923
    @robinhampshire89232 жыл бұрын

    Just beautiful

  • @andersonstevie904
    @andersonstevie9044 жыл бұрын

    I'm not color blind, I see all colors and I love them all. If you are color blind you should go see a eye specialist. Loved this video.

  • @Yor_gamma_ix_bae

    @Yor_gamma_ix_bae

    4 жыл бұрын

    needs more cones in the EYESSSS

  • @bertramdavis7120
    @bertramdavis71202 жыл бұрын

    If the world consider race as social construct and is a myth. Well, it sure has been a real pain to me and my ancestors

  • @lxMaDnEsSxl
    @lxMaDnEsSxl3 жыл бұрын

    beautiful ending

  • @neilifill4819
    @neilifill48192 жыл бұрын

    How interesting.

  • @bjrnn.2689
    @bjrnn.26892 жыл бұрын

    The concept of race are complicated and contains both outliers and deviants. Just like the colour "blue", no one defines it exactly the same and its probbalby impossible to do so. We still use the concept of blue. Haplogroup might be a better and more discribing term than race...

  • @AWayOfLiving84
    @AWayOfLiving84Ай бұрын

    This situation could get messy very quickly emotions are running high... I will say it's an intuitive😉intuition

  • @riva7061
    @riva70618 жыл бұрын

    Genius talk!

  • @jeh5176
    @jeh51766 жыл бұрын

    Well said.

  • @AWayOfLiving84
    @AWayOfLiving84Ай бұрын

    I will give my opinion on a video about race too. I hope it will help

  • @rogerstone3068
    @rogerstone30685 жыл бұрын

    This guy is wonderful! I'm only just keeping up with what he's saying.

  • @balu.92
    @balu.923 жыл бұрын

    The mitochondria are the powerhouses of the cells.

  • @adrianareixachgarcia
    @adrianareixachgarcia5 жыл бұрын

    absolutely marvellous!

  • @shannontaylor1849
    @shannontaylor18492 жыл бұрын

    Becoming a globular, connected species, isn't it inevitable that humans will become so 'mixed' as to leave the concept of 'race' behind? Well, I guess we'll still be able to fuss at each other over XX vs. XY?

  • @mariocasarez3896
    @mariocasarez38962 жыл бұрын

    Dr. Paul for President!!!

  • @handsofglory2729
    @handsofglory27294 жыл бұрын

    What about light skinned khoisan in southern africa?

  • @misstelly2821

    @misstelly2821

    4 жыл бұрын

    Less uvb in the area they are from I suspect

  • @mikeaskme3530

    @mikeaskme3530

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Hands of Glory the closest you get to either poles the lighter you get, that should explain the Khoisan.

  • @jessef9041
    @jessef904111 ай бұрын

    … so everyone can reach their full potential!!

  • @mamabear3217
    @mamabear32174 жыл бұрын

    That was good

  • @MrDMC11889
    @MrDMC118892 жыл бұрын

    What affected things like eye shape and hair texture ?

  • @zozifeliz

    @zozifeliz

    2 жыл бұрын

    Genes.

  • @PeteS_1994

    @PeteS_1994

    Жыл бұрын

    @@zozifeliz But what else, if diet as well as environment can affect skin colour.

  • @Tvyasa
    @Tvyasa4 жыл бұрын

    Don’t you get it? Pizza is just a n open calzone!!!!!

  • @dollylove3430
    @dollylove34302 жыл бұрын

    💕

  • @frankmill5172
    @frankmill51725 жыл бұрын

    this video been on KZread for almost 5 years and only has 9k views

  • @spinesauce2687

    @spinesauce2687

    5 жыл бұрын

    it hasn't been up for 3 years yet, and also probably people who believe in race will ignore it in order to protect their world view of whatever idea they belive

  • @andersonstevie904

    @andersonstevie904

    4 жыл бұрын

    That's at least 9k people that are smarter than they were before they watched it. Not to mention the people they may have told.

  • @calroach1

    @calroach1

    4 жыл бұрын

    Frank Mill it’s called truth.

  • @concernedkid3262
    @concernedkid32623 жыл бұрын

    nice talk, but the first creatures found (fossils) are actually extremelly complex

  • @l3ossTharatep

    @l3ossTharatep

    2 жыл бұрын

    The things is most of the first creatures could not store calcium well enough so when they died their remains would just be decomposed and disappeared. So, basically they could not be fossilised because most of the fossils we see are calcified remains.

  • @strategic1710
    @strategic17102 жыл бұрын

    The concept of race is from a prescientific age when we didn’t know a damn thing about evolutionary biology, anthropology, chemistry, or any other scientific discipline. It’ll take a while for it to go away, but it will eventually.

  • @infinitekaister

    @infinitekaister

    Жыл бұрын

    Actually, the myth of race was invented by Europeans as a way to explain their innate "superiority" over other people. Before them, there were no races. It was only "nationality". How can you group together an entire continent as one human "race", it doesn't make sense and isn't supported biologically.

  • @meanscene914
    @meanscene9143 жыл бұрын

    "The skin started to lighten again". I didn't understand that part.

  • @joshuataylor3550

    @joshuataylor3550

    2 жыл бұрын

    Can you give a timestamp?

  • @DanielJeffcoat-tt8wn
    @DanielJeffcoat-tt8wn4 жыл бұрын

    I love this presentation, because I know that racism is base of false construct.

  • @memphisakan4691
    @memphisakan4691 Жыл бұрын

    Atheistic scientists propounded this idea of race

  • @AWayOfLiving84
    @AWayOfLiving84Ай бұрын

    Why do races work together in your opinion? You don't have to give me your opinion. But I would love to hear it. Then I will give you mind

  • @josealvarez-perez7420
    @josealvarez-perez7420 Жыл бұрын

    had to scroll a little longer to find it...

  • @infini_ryu9461
    @infini_ryu94612 жыл бұрын

    Race is more than skin deep, though. Albinism doesn't make an African look European.

  • @joshuataylor3550

    @joshuataylor3550

    2 жыл бұрын

    Obviously different features benefited survival differently across the world. e.g. wider noses allow more heat loss etc. etc. what;s your point?

  • @michaelpond813
    @michaelpond8132 жыл бұрын

    There is only one. Race. The bhuman. Race. God made us to be exactly what we are. His devine creation.

  • @bjrnn.2689

    @bjrnn.2689

    2 жыл бұрын

    Like kids with blood cancer ?

  • @frankb3467

    @frankb3467

    Жыл бұрын

    @@bjrnn.2689 God gave the world to Satan in Eden garden to show all mankind that they cannot rule the world and live without God. Kids with blood cancer isn’t big deal for God. Everything is a matter of time.

  • @mortenrobinson5421
    @mortenrobinson54212 жыл бұрын

    It's not a myth. It's a beautiful and observable phenomenon, and it is not observable in an indirect or difficult way, it is easily observable for everybody. The debate on expelling the word 'race' from our vocabulary is not based in science and empirical evidence, it is based in feelings and emotions about the word, the unspeakable word. And race is not limited to the colour of your skin!

  • @joshuataylor3550

    @joshuataylor3550

    2 жыл бұрын

    It's been invented by humans though, humans do not neatly fit into 5 or 6 separate races, the actual biology shows we're all on a spectrum. We'd do just fine without this concept, this is not an emotional point.

  • @infinitekaister

    @infinitekaister

    Жыл бұрын

    Actually, the myth of race was invented by Europeans as a way to explain their innate "superiority" over other people. Before them, there were no races. It was only "nationality". How can you group together an entire continent as one human "race", it doesn't make sense and isn't supported biologically. You base "race" off of hair texture, hair color, skin color, eye size, and what else? How do those features make a "race", those are just inherited phenotypical traits? What you're saying is illogical and isn't rooted in science.

  • @abdulgafarmuhiadinmohamed9177
    @abdulgafarmuhiadinmohamed91773 жыл бұрын

    sorry Ethiopia was not colonized

  • @sholaspeaks6672

    @sholaspeaks6672

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks to the Nigerian/West African soldiers who drove the Italians out of Addis Ababa

  • @allenchilekw5698
    @allenchilekw5698 Жыл бұрын

    Colour blindness

  • @samsammssoula6510
    @samsammssoula65105 жыл бұрын

    Humans SMH

  • @markward3981
    @markward39812 жыл бұрын

    This is a great talk. I applaud him but one point sometimes science does have bias.

  • @jamiespurway9624

    @jamiespurway9624

    2 жыл бұрын

    That was my reaction too!

  • @okaro6595
    @okaro65954 жыл бұрын

    Race is not about skin color. Skin color may be the visual indicator for race.

  • @mataafa1

    @mataafa1

    2 жыл бұрын

    Agreed .. the color is a small part of the issue

  • @frankb3467

    @frankb3467

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mataafa1 The bigger part of the issue are Brits😂

  • @mataafa1

    @mataafa1

    Жыл бұрын

    @@frankb3467 😂😂

  • @scubabrick3459
    @scubabrick34592 жыл бұрын

    I’m not getting what he’s saying about dark skinned people and vitamin D. During Covid I’ve read that blacks and Latino’s don’t have enough vitamin D and is one reason they have suffered most in fighting Covid in the USA . But he says polar bears and the Inuit have more than enough Vitamin D. Or I miss heard him. Did hear him say D is a hormone, not a vitamin.

  • @joshuataylor3550

    @joshuataylor3550

    2 жыл бұрын

    Darker skinned people don't get enough vit D when they move to environments with less UV radiation, e.g. the US (particularly the north). UV is involved in vit D production, light skin allows more 'in'. Skin became lighter over millenia as people migrated north bc it benefitted survival. Inuit though had huge vit D dietary intake so therefore less survival benefit of lighter skin.

  • @Journeybacktoself
    @Journeybacktoself5 жыл бұрын

    Colorblindness? I beg to disagree!

  • @AWayOfLiving84
    @AWayOfLiving84Ай бұрын

    You know when you talk too much people can get lost

  • @frederickburke9944
    @frederickburke99445 жыл бұрын

    Should have been titled The Strawman of Race

  • @dennisrichards4722
    @dennisrichards47224 жыл бұрын

    When a highly-respected and eloquent scientist takes the time to present us with an extraordinary idea, and all we can do is aim thumbs up or down, find some microdata to refute him, or damn him with "uhh, OK then." What does any of this have to do with what Sharad Paul said. Nothing. But isn't it nice for all of us wankers to get in cyberspace?

  • @wilburmcbride8096

    @wilburmcbride8096

    4 жыл бұрын

    People are entitled to there opinion. I definitely didn't hear anything that changes my opinion from years of teaching on races and cultures in school. I think there's an agenda behind this and it far greater than science.

  • @dennisrichards4722

    @dennisrichards4722

    4 жыл бұрын

    i have no argument with people's right to their own opinions. your teaching experiences and Sharad's theories are equally valid points of view. As to him having an agenda which invalidates his science and makes his opinion less valid than yours suggests a problem, Wilbur. Maybe you have an agenda too. Most of us who have a working, critical faculty have opinions, points of view, agendas, or whatever you want to call them. But a working, critical faculty is impossible unless it is capable of suspending prejudice long enough to just enjoy someone else's mind. Relax. Enjoy all the sometimes dissonant music @@wilburmcbride8096

  • @wilburmcbride8096

    @wilburmcbride8096

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@dennisrichards4722 Also, I study a lot of other scientists works and some I agree with and some I don't. But, I give people the benefit of doubt. Also, I don't understand why people get so offended by this argument. Do you believe everything the doctor tells you, or do you have your own mind? If you sit down and look at all of the information that these scientists researched. You will find many different hypothesis. Many of them overlap each other, but they still have to make a scientific conclusion.

  • @MisterWessells
    @MisterWessells4 жыл бұрын

    u can live without touch .. what about some one in a wheel chair

  • @andersonstevie904

    @andersonstevie904

    4 жыл бұрын

    What?

  • @slo-poke1044
    @slo-poke10442 жыл бұрын

    Humans didn't farm 100k years ago. This talk doesn't seem unbiased

  • @shirleymorton6774
    @shirleymorton67743 жыл бұрын

    What a clever buggar he is !

  • @AWayOfLiving84
    @AWayOfLiving84Ай бұрын

    You bout to get double for ur trouble it's alot going on behind the scenes...

  • @mogbaba
    @mogbaba4 жыл бұрын

    I don't encourage you to religion. In fact, science is the base of my world view but be aware! Do not look at science as you looked at religion. The core of scientific thinking is critical thinking. All this, just to say that racism and the idea of whites being the superior race was entirely based on science. Thanks for the video.

  • @SageVaughn

    @SageVaughn

    3 жыл бұрын

    Actually...it was based on pseudo-science

  • @mogbaba

    @mogbaba

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@SageVaughn At it's time, It was science. You may, by today's standards, call that pseudo-science.

  • @arrangingatomsthewaygoddid8904
    @arrangingatomsthewaygoddid89042 жыл бұрын

    There are different people of different skin colors, facial features so what's wrong with this No nobody knows why it is so

  • @sanju200100
    @sanju2001004 жыл бұрын

    He is hard to understand

  • @elainegoad2111

    @elainegoad2111

    3 жыл бұрын

    It may help if people whose primary language is not "English" would make an effort to speak a littler slower, we could understand everything they say. Most Intelligent people would welcome a little constructive "critique".

  • @Fuegocontoelmundo69
    @Fuegocontoelmundo692 жыл бұрын

    Lots of rubbish and half truths .

  • @phxfish3051
    @phxfish30516 жыл бұрын

    Just stop lol

  • @sriramanjali2119

    @sriramanjali2119

    5 жыл бұрын

    God poojas

  • @unapologeticallymelanated8023
    @unapologeticallymelanated80234 жыл бұрын

    👎🏾

  • @warchief6733
    @warchief67332 жыл бұрын

    See that map? There is no one in North and South America. It supports the idea that indigenous people migrated through the Bering Strait, a myth presented by The Catholic Church that Indigenous are son's of Shem, Mongoloid's. That no one was here is a myth intending to erase the original people from history so that colonization can occur. To debate the humanity of the original people by the Church and Empires only facilitated colonization and colonialism. That is the origin of race as decreed by Papal Bull 1493, Alexander VI. This guy may need to revisit his research because his talk perpetuates the myth of race. The whole talk has lost all credibility.

  • @AngryCanadian1971
    @AngryCanadian19713 жыл бұрын

    This man made so many false claims. WWOOWW

  • @curtisthomas2670

    @curtisthomas2670

    3 жыл бұрын

    Please counter with sources

  • @agonleed3841

    @agonleed3841

    2 жыл бұрын

    personally, dont even need to give me sources. I just want to hear the counters. I can do my own research. I just hope you can do research also, that doesnt JUST fit into YOUR wishes

  • @PeteS_1994

    @PeteS_1994

    Жыл бұрын

    Reference your sources

  • @brandoncooney9047
    @brandoncooney90476 жыл бұрын

    This is what cultural Marxism is.

  • @deebo7201

    @deebo7201

    6 жыл бұрын

    Being brainwashed by right-extremists is going very well in social media, sadly.

  • @3506Dodge

    @3506Dodge

    6 жыл бұрын

    You are what racism is.

  • @andrewwardell2265

    @andrewwardell2265

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@3506Dodge You are what 105 IQ pleb is

  • @dinguscollective1872

    @dinguscollective1872

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@andrewwardell2265 NOT AN ARGUMENT

  • @ndeyefaye8125

    @ndeyefaye8125

    5 жыл бұрын

    No, it's what a scientific consensus based on data is

  • @pablobedoya5903
    @pablobedoya59035 жыл бұрын

    And who said race is defined only by the skin colour?? I'm sick of hearing people race is not real in humans. This is against logic.

  • @subhiawad8501

    @subhiawad8501

    5 жыл бұрын

    unless u can actually understand the logic... we r all a mix

  • @pablobedoya5903

    @pablobedoya5903

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@subhiawad8501 thanks to the globalization most people arw mixed. Not all people though. There are still groups where the race is more or less pure. Even if we got all mixed in certain point that doesn't mean race didn't existed in the past. Tell me why race exists for dogs or any other animal but not for humans??

  • @nikibronson133

    @nikibronson133

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@frankmill5172 good points. If you really had all these subspecies wouldn't be able to have blood transfusions or bone marrow transfers or literally change our organs

  • @g.lowenklee2268

    @g.lowenklee2268

    4 жыл бұрын

    ​@@pablobedoya5903 Here's some logic: Races don't exist for dogs either, not biologically ...all canis lupus familiaris, no sub-sub taxonomic distinctions for Great Danes or Poodles, all the same biologically and taxonomically:p As with dogs, humans are simply not biologically diverse enough for us to be different races regardless of how superficially different we may appear to be. With humans everyone is related to someone else a bit farther away until you find that humanity exists on a gradient, not sharply distinguished categories of race. It's always been this way.

  • @001islandprincess

    @001islandprincess

    4 жыл бұрын

    G. Lowenklee Excellent answer. The people who still believe in this worldview do so for political and social meaning. Race has always been a socio political term masquerading as something inherent.

  • @straighttalking2090
    @straighttalking20904 жыл бұрын

    Stopped watching when the guy said "our one human race'. I take it that TED doesn't vet these story tellers before they permit them; or it doesn't care about it's own image as a quality source of information.

  • @ricoaztec1

    @ricoaztec1

    4 жыл бұрын

    So, saying "human race" upset you... we all know what side of the swastika you stand on.🤣🤣🤣

  • @kayluvsexy

    @kayluvsexy

    4 жыл бұрын

    So you can carry on believing your fairy tale of multiple race when he clearly speaks the truth of one race.

  • @straighttalking2090

    @straighttalking2090

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@kayluvsexy "Fairy tale". Don't make me laugh. It's called rationality. Don't tell me you couldn't pick out a Swede on a plane full of Chinese. If you can't you are blind; and if you can then tell me how you can if there is only one race.

  • @kayluvsexy

    @kayluvsexy

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@straighttalking2090 do you understand what ethnic diversity is? Do you understand what the concept of race was? How come that concept race Never existed until after trans Atlantic slavery? When you answer those questions, then you will understand what it means to have a social divide. Biology doesn't have any difference in our species. Ok? Human beings are one species not multiple species' hence no different race. I hope that is clear.

  • @straighttalking2090

    @straighttalking2090

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@kayluvsexy The only clear thing in your comment is your confusion. Do you actually know the biological definitions of species and subspecies and races? What makes you think there was no concept of race before trans-Atlantic slavery? Do you think the Romans and Greeks had no concept of 'race'? Do you think gravity was not real before some human had a 'conception' of gravity? So if biology has "no difference in our species" how could you spot a Swede on a plane full of Chinese? I note that you didn't answer that question - too hard for you? You have not thought this through for yourself. Scientists have no problem defining numerous races in hundreds of thousands of species but you seem to think that humans are somehow removed from the process of evolution while all other species are subject to it. Is that what you think? That humans haven't evolved? That we aren't evolving?

  • @bonsummers2657
    @bonsummers26576 жыл бұрын

    Race is as real in humans as with any other living thing,… and it relates to geographical morphological history, genetic clustering, and how genes express themselves in peoples. Your mention of skin color, Darwin, sociological problems, hate, love,…. show's your on the wrong track of thought,… you're on a sociological agenda of denying differences of human history as it shows in historical population genetic morphologies, which are distinctly different from other populations.

  • @Olivia-W

    @Olivia-W

    6 жыл бұрын

    Bon Summers Exactly.

  • @ChrisPPotatoIDC

    @ChrisPPotatoIDC

    6 жыл бұрын

    No race is a problem and ethnicity, your culture is all that matters.

  • @jeh5176

    @jeh5176

    6 жыл бұрын

    Bon Summers are you some kind of scientist who has irrefutable evidence of what you're saying? Or just some nut job who can't accept the truth?

  • @samsammssoula6510

    @samsammssoula6510

    5 жыл бұрын

    The Concept of Race Has MindFukD Humanity is the Point! Any Logical Thinker can See That Fact!

  • @TheTricky411

    @TheTricky411

    5 жыл бұрын

    If race were real in humans we could not be able to produce fertile offspring, crossing breading races.

  • @celtiberian07
    @celtiberian076 жыл бұрын

    Race is very real

  • @deebo7201

    @deebo7201

    6 жыл бұрын

    Eric Last No Eric, it isn't.

  • @mateo61323

    @mateo61323

    6 жыл бұрын

    well all you have to do is find the gene that defines race and prove everyone wrong

  • @mateo61323

    @mateo61323

    6 жыл бұрын

    "many genes" lol you must know something the biological and genetic science community doesn't know

  • @maverick9708

    @maverick9708

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@mateo61323 yeah I guess the scientific Community forgot about that Sickle Cell Anemia Gene, you know the one that only affected an isolated race of people until it spread through the population with gene flow, yeah I have an idea of which position is based on science

  • @carlencharleston8576

    @carlencharleston8576

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@maverick9708 The sickle cell trait was not isolated to a "race" of people but is geographically defined to areas where Malaria is present. The sickle-cell trait is believed to be protective against malaria. Thus, sickle-cell disease is at its highest frequency in West Africans and people of West African descent. But this trait is not common in other regions of Africa, where malaria is not as prevalent. Therefore, it is not an “African” disease. Sickle cell also appears in other regions of the globe, in other human populations, including populations in the Mediterranean Basin, the Arabian Peninsula, and on the Indian subcontinent, where these populations also saw this adaptation to resist malaria.

  • @gtxpc1728
    @gtxpc17286 жыл бұрын

    what absolute dribble

  • @mooncookie0829
    @mooncookie08294 жыл бұрын

    African skin did not darken over time. God made us this way. This doc is crazy.

  • @straighttalking2090

    @straighttalking2090

    4 жыл бұрын

    Oh yeah? Who made God then?

  • @SamGucci9919

    @SamGucci9919

    2 жыл бұрын

    God was made by brown jews with dark skin in middle east