WGS250H5 Chapter : Race culture- Dikotter.docx
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dikotter describes how the concept of race gained power through scientific theory of eugenics. eugenics: science concerned with improving the genetic traits of the human race. dikotter argues that population control in the poorer parts of the world today is still based on ideas similar to nazi ideology. eugenics widely seen to be a morally acceptable and scientifically practical way of improving human heredity. disgust at nazi practices while restating their belief in a humane and. Scientific way of genetically improving the human race expressed by liberal intellectuals like aldous huxley and hermann miller. in china, eugenics has become official policy. politicians with mutually mismatched beliefs and scientists with opposed interests could all selectively appropriate eugenics to portray society as an organic body that had to be guided by biological laws.
