The word “Eugenics” is derived from the Greek word which, literally, means “well born.” Is what given this name by Sir Galton (Anderson). The definition in Webster’s New World Dictionary says “eugenics: (n)… the movement devoted to improving the human species through the control of hereditary factors in mating.”

There are two forms of eugenics. The first form is known as positive eugenics. This is where nobody is hurt or killed, but those with “favorable” genes are encouraged to breed. Some countries have paid people to breed in an attempt to make their country the best in the world. The other kind of eugenics, the one that generally presents problems, is n

Negative eugenics, I feel, is absolutely horrible. Who is any one person, or group of people, to say that they are the supreme race in the world? Mankind is a warped entity which allows itself to say these things. Sometimes I think the intelligence we were given was a curse rather than a blessing with some of the things that we choose to do with it.

As far as the United States getting involved is concerned, I think that we, as a country, should worry more about out own issues. Don’t get me wrong, if there is a major problem, or we are asked to keep peace, or we are going to be directly impacted by a foreign country’s goings on, that is one thing. But if we are spending money that could be used for research to pay people to figure out what China is doing, when, in this example, the eugenics involved is not an extreme case, well, we should just be spending that money here. If China decides to start doing more and more eugenics in effort to become a superior country, that could lead to problems. But right now, all they seem to be doing is attempting to control their ever increasing overpopulation problem.

In the late 1910s, Dr. Harry J. Haiselden allowed six infants, who he said were “defects,” to be killed. He wanted to get everyone to see why he did it, so he sold articles and pictures of and about the babies and he also agreed to star in a motion picture about what he had done. The media blew the entire story up into this huge ordeal and an author of a book about this situation said that “this shows how efforts to improve human heredity (eugenics) became linked with mercy – killing, race, class, gender, and ethnic hatreds (Pernick).”

By the 1930s, 30 of the states in the US had approved the “Model Eugenical Sterilization Law” which said that those who were “feeble – minded, paupers, inebriates, criminals… deformed” were not allowed to breed (Soft on Facism).

And as it progressed, unbelievably to some, the United States became, and has been for a long time now, involved in eugenics. This involvement was sometimes conscious, sometimes not. Even before it was termed eugenics, when we first arrived before becoming the United States of America, our ancestors forced the Native Americans onto reservations that segregated them from our society. Blacks were always considered a lower class of people, policy until Abraham Lincoln made it not so. However, today, unfortunately, many people still think this is so. Eugenics became a more obvious decision for some around the turn of the century. The Ku Klux Klan came to become quite powerful, with over four and a half million members by the 1920s. The policy of this group was that any non white, non Christian, was a lower form of people and should not be allowed to have the rights of people. Also in the early 20th century, there is some evidenc

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