Speaker A argues that modern race concepts emerged from European colonizers categorizing peoples by appearance and culture to justify resource competition. Dr. Claude Anderson's work traces this back to scarcity in northern Europe driving expansion and conquest.
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So we live in a competitive society, right? And that's the term race is competitive. Uh, Dr. Claude Anderson, uh, defined it asā and it made most sense to meā as this race of Europeans to conquer the world. This colonization race became what, what we find as race today, because when they found out, okay, well, we can look a certain way and identify another people as looking a certain way, and there's a difference in these cultures, now we can create this sort of race, racism construct. And in that, we come from a very competitive culture because we have a scarcity of resources in the northern region, in that European region. So that means we have to go elsewhere to get the resources from the planet that our bodies need. And in doing so, weā when you have a scarcity