RACE - The Power of an Illusion | PBS(2003)

Introduced by Li Zhang, an anthropology professor at our school, the author of the Strangers in the City

I actually think race is not socially constructed per se, it can be interpreted in a scientific way, like the gradational skin color; however, racial inferiority is a socially constructed idea.

Race is not about biology, because it is a social construction. “Race was never just a matter of how you look, it’s about how people assign meaning to how you look.”

种族在美国一直是非常有争议的话题。它是我们区分他人的标签，被社会赋予了不同含义。 殊不知那些社会强加的差异没有任何科学理论支持：不同人种的人具有极其相同的基因。很多社会调查显示种族歧视一直都存在：资源和机遇的分配是金字塔状的，白人永远在顶端。但在这个强调政治正确的时代。人们畏惧讨论它。但不正视问题永远不能解决问题，只会使特权掌握在少数派的手中，对有色人种的偏见和歧视不断积累。

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