"No argument has ever been advanced by any reasonable man against the fact of differences among men. The whole argument is about what differences exist and how they are to be gauged (Mulnar 1)." (Jacques Barzun, 1965).
What are the differences that exist among men and what should mankind do about the problems that are derived from these differences? These arguments over the perception of human differences have been going on since humankind first came into contact with one another. Many things have been derived since the time humans first came in contact with new and different humans. Humans have classified, combined, and degraded each other. They also have traded afar with one another. My wise teacher, Mr. Randolph Severinsen, once told me that when humans trade goods they also trade ideas. Ideas exchanged in trade bring new inventions and discoveries, which enables humans to advance in the new technologies of today. With new technologies humans have realized that they are not very different. The more man researches human variation as a process through time, the more likely it is to make accurate predictions of human variation in the future. Some people today ignore the studies of human variation and they feel the need to discriminate. Groups, such as the Neo-Nazis, Black Power organizations, and the overly popular and publicized Ku Klux Klan, have been known for extreme violence, hatred and even murders of people of "inferior races." .
According to the bible, all humans on earth are descendents of Noah and his wife, and before that Adam and Eve. After thousands of years of offspring separating and spreading, as Gods command to "fill the earth (WherdtHum 1; Genesis 9:1, 11:4)," humans have many different groups that they like to call races. A race is a group of people with distinctive combinations of physical traits that set them off from other groups. Race maybe used to describe biologically similar groups or it maybe used to describe groups that are similar in physical appearances (Robson 1).
