It was the Europeans' cultural arrogance, combined with their materialistic view of the land and its animal and plant beings, that the Indians found repellent. ... And third, a racist targets an unchangeable characteristic about a culture or race. Let's begin with the notion of race as an unchangeable characteristic. ... The main part of any liberal culture is respect for these characteristics. ... Unchangeable characteristics are only one part of human nature. ...

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Some meanings are far more technical, when for example a "biologist talks about different races of a particular species of plant or animal" (MacEachern 34). ... "We study the biological characteristics of different human populations, our relations with our relatives-the apes and monkeys, and the evolutionary history of our species" (MacEachern 34). ... " The characteristics of people from different parts of the world that we have come to know, we have mostly gained through the media, such as what we see on television, magazines, and newspapers. ... It is discrimination...

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• Grade Level: High School

The falseness of the pipe's exterior also alludes to the Optic White paint in the Liberty Paints plant in chapter 10. A black base is the essential ingredient, the foundation required for a glowing white luster, a color that so many white members of the plant are proud of, such as Mr. ... The description of the "cast iron bank" that IM finally notices in the corner is rich in providing evidence of the physical characteristics of the bank: "black, red-lipped Negro, whose white eyes stared at me, with an enormous grin.... He develops an extreme hatred for it and becomes offen...

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While modern science has disproved this illogical theory of innate superiority through the use of electrophoresis and other such studies, the idea had somehow planted itself in the soil of America and taken root. ... Instead of attributing the Indians with human characteristics, the scientists totally ignored the fact that the "savages" may have created the art, so the question of who the mound builders were occupied the attention of professional archaeologists and other scholars for years. ... Basically, human nature planted the seed and human nature fertilized the idea. ...

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Parents" characteristics are passed along to offspring in the form of biochemical units called genes. ... Children do not always have the same characteristics as their parents because they inherited some genes that did not show up in their parent's body, but the genes had to have showed up some time in one of the child's ancestors. All plants and animals resemble their parents in some way, shape, or form (Hussain 1). ...

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• Grade Level: High School