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- RACISM - “When we look at modern man we have to face the fact that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast to his scientific and technological abundance, we’ve learned to fly like birds, we’ve learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven’t learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, 1964 The cataclysmic events …

…racism. As experts in comparing different societies and identifying the core cultural reasons behind certain behaviours, they can help us understand the need for education, for policies reversing socio-economic conditions and for a culture of tolerance in which we appreciate the richness of different subcultures. Above all, anthropologists must lead the charge in our recognizing that we are one species, and no evolutionary evidence exists to demonstrate that one culture or ethnic group is supreme.