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Sarah Olson
10/25/2013 07:47:48 am
Reading 2: The Industrial Revolution led not only to new developments in ways of production, but to new ideas of thinking. One was Eugenics, a science studying the hereditary qualities of people. The belief, developed by mathematician Francis Galton, was that he could better the human race by breeding people for "character, disposition, energy, intellect, or physical power". He claimed that the only way to enforce eugenics was to teach and accept it without question. But when he tried to test his theory, he found that those considered ill-bred, or the lesser of humanity, scored just as well on intelligence tests than the superior specimens. When his tests failed, he denied the faultiness of his "race improvement" theory and instead blamed the tests. It's shocking how indifferent and uncaring Galton is towards other races, which he deems to be lesser people.
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Chris Bargman
10/25/2013 09:43:18 am
Reading #2: English mathematician named Francis Galton, who believed in eugenics and that races can be bred amongst each other and make a genetically superior human. He believed this was important because the theory of Darwinism didn’t apply to humans in civilised society as opposed to animals in the wild because of other humans preventing it. Eugenics was the belief that if you combine two people with great traits (including personality) that they can yield offspring superior to all. His theory was disproved when two people scored the same on a test
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10/25/2013 11:18:59 am
Reading 2:
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Grady Gumner
10/25/2013 12:45:06 pm
Reading 2: To me, Francis Galton sounded like a racist person who linked certain characteristics to different races. The similarities between his ideals and Adolph Hitler's ideals were eerily similar. While Galton didn't believe in some of the extreme measures Hitler did, his idea of the perfect race mirrored Hitler's Aryan race. What was even more irritating was his denial in the test results. Even after his predictions had been proved to be false, he continued with his arrogant belief that intelligence was linked to social class.
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Meilani
10/25/2013 06:34:19 pm
Reading 2: Francis Galton proposed a solution to the 'threat they posed' by trying to implement eugenics, or 'breeding the best with the best'. By taking the best each class has, he presumed they would have intelligent children, and he seems callous as he theorizes, as though he were talking of cattle. Without data this idea would not be backed, though his fervent commitment to his ideas left him undeterred by evidence that debunked his theory. It would also have to be received well publicly, and though the poor may accept this more readily because their children would have a better chance with someone of a higher class, the higher classes may not agree with their children being tied to such poor people.
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Michelle
10/28/2013 02:04:57 pm
It is the poor people who would be against it because they are the ones who will ultimately sterilized, the rich and well born will be able to continue breeding. Does that make sense?
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Rilind
10/26/2013 04:01:36 am
reading 2: In the late 1800s a man named Francis Galton wanted to create a "perfect race". This really reminds me of Hitler, but this guy wasn't actually killing people. He was incredibly racist and was ashamed of blacks, native Americans, and other races that were in America during the industrial revolution. He demanded more upperclassman (because he thought you had to be very rich to be smart) and superior offspring.
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Mali M.
10/26/2013 05:20:33 am
Reading 2: In the late 1800's a scientist named Francis Galton, guided racist ides rather than scientific evidence, promoted the study of eugenics. Eugenics is a belief that humankind can be made more perfect through breeding the "best" people with each other only. I found it appalling he stated "we must leave morals as far possible out of the discussion." The very idea of eugenics brings up moral implications because humans are moral creatures. The quality of ourselves depends not just on intelligence. We are made up of our morals, characteristics, choices, actions, and a million other things. Finally, all these traits can't be compared. Every human has something important or special these should share with the world. There is no way to find out who is the "best" human because the best human doesn't exist.
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Michelle
10/28/2013 02:26:56 pm
Now this is what I call analysis! Well done Malia!
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Lance Shuler
10/26/2013 06:31:45 am
Reading 2: I find it interesting how Francis Galton tries to make the "perfect human." Though I do find his argument a bit racist, it is a bit of an interesting theory. It doesn't seem like he believes in the phrase "everyone is equal", so he tries to find a way to make everyone equal, and thus, make the perfect human race.This is done by controlling breeding to increase a "better" population. I do find this a bit of an odd suggestion to improve our race, but it could work. The only problem was finding out how, and if we are truly born unequal. The pea plant experiment, for example, shows that some are born great, some good, some bad, and some awful, and may theorize that humans are just like that. But is everyone born different, can we control breeding to produce the perfect race? Or is it truly impossible. That's what I find interesting about eugenics, is it's idea that it can solve this issue, and could possiby help us evolve to a better race
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Lance Shuler
10/26/2013 06:41:34 am
Reading 4: It seems that more and more scientists are becoming more and more aware of Eugenics. Though it's a good thing, I feel like they are taking it too far. Stating that unless we control every marriage, every breeding, human race will never evolve or improve. And if we were to do this, crime rate will drop. I can see how a lot of people could be offended by this, as we it theorizes to control everyones lives. This can also offend those who may or maynot have a sibling who has a disorder, since this could theorize that it could have been stopped if we did the "propper breeding". I do find this to be a very touchy subject, but I belive that it could possibly work, we would just have to find a way for it to not offend other races or familes, and do it slowly as tests, before we take full action on it.
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Michelle
10/28/2013 01:55:08 pm
Can you explain a little more about why you think Eugenics was a "good thing"? It is what Hitler believed in whole heartedly, though he got the idea from the American Eugenics movement, he took it to the next level. Now Eugenics is regarded as a pseudoscience, meaning "sham" science because it has not real scientific basis.
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Jackson Walker
10/26/2013 07:14:59 am
Reading One:
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Michelle
10/28/2013 02:31:37 pm
Wonderful analysis and word choice!
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Justin Walker
10/26/2013 11:05:08 am
Reading #2: The Industrial Revolution resulted in a thorough overhaul of how goods, services, and careers were formed. Larger quantities of individuals were fleeing the countryside and farm work in favor of industrial careers. During these times, an English Mathematician named Galton proposed a theory that those in the lower class were inferior human beings to the wealthy and higher class.His idea and method of thinking was referred to as "eugenics". He began to run tests and propose theories but to his dismay found that the poor were often as intelligent as the rich. Additionally, a recurring trend of wealthy people giving birth to less intelligent children was constantly recurring, along with there being little methodology towards breeding a hyper-intelligent subspecies of humans. It would seem that Galton's greater plot was to improve society as a whole, but his approach was far off-course. To truly rid society's woes and ills, one must not try to change humans but the system they perform under. It was not mankind which needed revision, but society!
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Tess Herzog
10/26/2013 12:29:53 pm
Reading 2: Francis Galton believed that a superior race could and should be created through the study of eugenics. He believed that one’s parents could determine how the child would turn out. Despite some of his tests showing that those in lower classes and upper classes have the same score on intelligence tests, he refused to believe that his theory was wrong. In his mind, only upper class people could be intelligent. This man was crazy in his thinking because facts disproved his theory, and he would have to get the general public on board with his ideas. It would be very hard to argue a point to a crowd if your tests do not all back up what you are supporting. However, in the past, unthinkable racist attacks have happened by one crazy person simply making the public think that it is “okay”. Somehow, the public can disregard all reason if this person can convince them that there is “rationality” behind the situation (making them feel that a certain race, religion or group of people is inferior).
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Michelle
10/28/2013 02:38:19 pm
Thank you for your honest and insightful analysis!
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Brianna Barboza
10/27/2013 08:08:39 am
Reading #2: Because of the Industrial Revolution, many careers and opportunities were available and offered. However, many people ran away from the country side in order start new, well paying jobs to support their families. But there was a scientist by the named of Galton. He had a rather interesting theory that lower classes were humans inferior to those who had wealth, no matter how hard they worked. The ideas he had consisted of "eugenics". The man ran tests and through his studies, he came up with many theories about the upper and lower classes. But most of his theories didn't seem to match the fact poor citizens could be just as smart and educated as those who were rich. Not to mention the rich were actually breeding children that only became less and less intelligent. I believe Galton's goal was improve the society of human beings by attempting to change them, but instead was misinterpreting everything. If someone wants to change society, attempting to change humans and their behavior won't do anything but frustrate people and himself.
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Ryan
10/27/2013 09:17:51 am
Chapter 2: Galton's ideas of eugenics are obviously inhuman and immoral but when really looking at what he was trying to do, it seems almost like human nature. The urge to be the best and better oneself lie purely in our nature and Galton's efforts to better mankind was the same. Obviously, the way he proposed going about bettering the race was flawed though. One cant help but draw parallels to Hitler's Nazi Germany or even the subjugation of racial superiority. As a whole, Galton's ideas are supremely flawed as changing humans isn't the problem, more of changing the system that we function inside of. He himself proved this through his pea plant experiments. If those pea plants hadn't had the right sustenance, it is without a doubt that they would not have been as great as their parent plants.
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Michelle
10/28/2013 02:29:07 pm
Very clear analysis! Thank you!
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Karen
10/27/2013 11:35:15 am
Reading 2:
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Gage Gamboa
10/27/2013 12:06:04 pm
Chapter 2: Francis Galton’s ideas of a necessary improving of the human race were influenced by the blame of certain racial groups for many of society’s problems, as was mentioned in the beginning of the chapter. Galton (as many thinkers before him) became so passionate and enveloped in his ideas that striking evidence, that spoke to the falseness of his theory, failed to affect his confidence in said theory. The system that was creating the “lesser” racial groups that Galton wished to breed out of existence, was also creating delusional “intellectuals” that thought they had found the “key” to perfecting the human race, such as Galton.
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Jordan Garcia
10/27/2013 02:58:00 pm
2- African Americans & Natives Americans began to move away from the countryside in search for jobs in a large urban center society. Some thought of them as ones who were responsible for society's ills, someone to blame for the disturbing things in life. Galton believes that he can improve the human race based on traits they were born with such as intelligence, character, disposition, etc. He believed that intellect was a trait that was inherited which in his theory, meant the rich and wealthy
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Michelle
10/28/2013 02:09:26 pm
Jordan, I think you need to go back and read it a little more closely. He was saying that if you were poor, or if someone in your family was an alcoholic, or committed a crime, then those people didn't deserve to reproduce because he thought it meant that their children would automatically be those things. He thought only the wealthy and intelligent should be aloud to breed.
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John
10/27/2013 03:32:28 pm
Chapter 2: In this chapter it is about an english mathematician Francis Galton who proposes an idea. His idea is making a perfect race for the world by breeding with the superior races. His idea was based around that people are born with characteristics like character, disposition, energy, intellect, and physical power. In his findings he concludes that intelligence is the superior of the traits.
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Carly
10/28/2013 02:42:29 am
2:There was an English mathematician who named Francis Galton who proposed the idea of "eugenics" to better society. He believed that the upper class was the most intelligent, therefore should have the highest birth rate to breed a perfect race. Through research, he found that it was not the case that the upper class was most intelligent, and that his methods did not work in pea plants, nonetheless he still insisted on his "science"
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Crystal Delgado
10/28/2013 03:47:08 am
Reading #2: Francis Galton was an English mathematician who brought about "Eugenics" that was meant to better the human population. Eugenics was meant to raise the standrards of the human race and breed the best with the best. Galton beilieved that intelligence was an inherited trait and that the upper classes were more intelligent and accomplished because they were born with it. He tested the classes and it frustrated him when the results came back and showed the poor tested just as well on the test than the upper classes.
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Andrew Ledezma
10/28/2013 03:56:47 am
Reading 2: Francis Galton, cousin to Charles Darwin, claimed that he had a solution to the “miserably low standard of human life”. This was called eugenics, and it involved breeding “the best with the best” people for a better civic worth. Eugenics’ main goal was “race betterment” and sought to silently “improve the race”. Galton believed that intellegence was hereditary and the genius society was declining. He made two important discoveries that scientists would use to turn away from eugenics such as the parenthood of pea plants and the standardized intellegence test. Both of these refuted eugenics, but that didn’t stop Galton. Francis Galton died in 1911, and his theory was never realized.
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Katie Cooke
10/28/2013 04:50:39 am
Reading 2: The first reading covers the birth of eugenics. how it was thought of what it was based on, who created it. A man named francis Galton a cousin to Charles Darwin believed that he could breed a better more intelligent people from the richer stock. Of course his theory was proved mostly wrong when the poor showed almost the same results in an intelligence test as the rich. His theory was different and of course it was accepted by high society. But he soon discovered that the children of grey parents could turn out just as intelligent of much less, it was a gamble and his theory was harder to prove.
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Anthony Williams
10/28/2013 05:04:20 am
Reading 2: In this section, it talks about a man by the name of Francis Galton. He was cousin to Charles Darwin. He believed that natural selection does not work within societies the same way it does as in nature, and that the fittest do not always survive within societies. He believed in a theory, that could be regarded as selective breeding, called eugenics. He had believed that “inferior” races should not breed with “higher” races, and that talent was passed through genetics, rather than from individual experience. He had discovered two things that would normally be evidence enough to abandon eugenics, one of them being an intelligence test, which proved that the “lower” races scored the same as the “higher” races. His second discovery was through the use of pea plants, which he had discovered that no matter how high quality the parent peas were, the children were never better, only on par with the parents or lower. Regardless of these two discoveries, Francis Galton believed in eugenics until the day that he died in 1911
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Jessica Boensch
10/28/2013 06:19:05 am
Reading Two: During the Industrial Revolution poor workers flocked to Urban Cities to find jobs. With an incredibly high population it is easy to blame others for what is wrong with the conditions in which the majority is living. In the case of the Industrial Revolution, this outlet for blame was the African Americans, Immigrants, and Indians. Francis Galton decided the best way to deal with the problem of these 'inferior' races screwing up society was to breed only the best men and women together. He uses the word "eugenics" to describe his strive towards a better race. Galton was particularly focused on the lack of intelligence and education at the time because he believed it was a trait of the wealthy. He did experiments on pea plants and found that no matter how perfect the mother and father were, the child was still somewhat inferior. This finding did not stop him however and he worked on his theory until death.
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Rachel Maristela
10/28/2013 06:22:05 am
Reading 2: Francis Galton was a English mathematician and also the cousin of Charles Darwin, who comes up with a solution to fix a mixed society with a low life, a "threat." He came up with a word that can "improve the race" called eugenics. Galton believed that intelligence is a inherited trait, but realizes that the wealthy had more intelligence than the poor. To be equal, he explained that eugenics can be used by representing each class by each race and contribute to the next generation. Galton still wasn't sure how changes would work with eugenics and how intelligence will be inherited to future generations.
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Trevin Kraus
10/28/2013 06:29:23 am
Reading 2: Since the beginning of time man has strived to make/improve the lives of those around us. In the late 1800 a mathematician by the name of Francis Galton believed he had discovered a way to breed healthier, richer and smarter children using a process called "Eugenics." The belief is that by having two healthy, rich, smart parents that the child will share the same characteristics. However, after completing many tests Galton instead of realizing that his race improvement theory was wrong he instead blamed the tests themselves for being faulty.
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Meranda Knowles
10/28/2013 08:38:50 am
Reading #2: Francis Galton believed in breeding to get the best race. He didn't think other races were as good as the white race in America. He made the word, eugenics, to describe his plan of making the race better. You could relate it to Harry Potter, and how purebloods would only breed with each other to keep their magical blood pure. Galton wanted only the upper class to create children because he thought they were the most intelligent. But he was alarmed that the poor had a higher birth rate. He thought that he could solve this problem with eugenics, the science that improves a race.
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Paris Gramann
10/28/2013 08:43:43 am
2: Francis Galton, Charles Darwin's cousin, had an interesting and frightening idea called eugenics. He believed that the wealthy white humans were the "better" race and that they should be the main providers for the future generations. He believed that survival of the fittest could not happen with humans because we tampered with the process. But instead of tampering with it, we should encourage and purposefully create it. He had it well thought out in that you would first have to convince the world that this was the right way and incorporate it as a religion. This would definitely make things stick in a more effective way. However, he even found faults in his theory with testing. Galton disregarded all of these findings though and continued on in his work until hies death in 1911. This section sounded very similar to the beginning of Mein Kampf. Scary!
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Trey Lewis
10/28/2013 09:09:57 am
Reading #2: During the late 1800's disease and poverty were quite common in America. Because people were coming from all over the world, one they didn't have any money to start a life, and two they brought disease and things that were different to the American environment. People didn't know who or what to believe in. Scientists, Francis Galton being the first, thought of an idea that would revolutionize America. Some would say this was for the good, others would say for the bad. Galton's idea would be to find out which race is superior to the others and from there create more of that specific race. He thought this would increase the chance of human survival.
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Tyler Felix
10/28/2013 10:30:11 am
Reading 2: Industrial Revolution changed how goods were manufactured, and the location of where they were made. Francis Galton's theories were based off of how individuals are born with a "define endowment". Galton was concerned with the decline of geniuses in society. He believed that the upper class had more intelligence than others, so when he discovered that the poor had a higher birth rate. Eugenics is the science that deals with all influences that improve and develop the inborn qualities of a race. Galton spent years studying heredity up to when he passed away in 1911. In his researched he made two discoveries that would spark an interest by other scientists. His first discovery was when he got the result of a test, where the poor did just as good as the rich. The second discovery resulted from trying to find successive generations of pea plants. No matter how high the quality of the parent peas, the new ones were all different.
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Ysabella Dawson
10/28/2013 11:10:35 am
Reading 2:
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Michelle
10/28/2013 02:34:50 pm
Very insightful commentary and questions!
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Sabrina
10/28/2013 11:40:09 am
Reading 2:
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Alex Demos
10/28/2013 11:59:33 am
Reading #2: During the late 1800's, Francis Galton, Charles Darwin's cousin, developed the term eugenics. Galton believed that intelligence is an inherited trait and that those of a higher class scale consist of the dominance of intelligent and accomplished people. He then defines eugenics as a solution to deal with all influences that improve and develop race inequality. Within his statement he concludes that there are three different stages that needed to be worked through in order for eugenics to be widely practiced. He found out, however, that two of his discoveries within testing had proven his eugenics plan wrong, the first through an intelligence testing, and the second through his results of tracking successive generations of pea plants. Even through these multiple proofs that went against his beliefs, he continued to insist that intelligence was based off of social hierarchy.
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Sophia C.
10/28/2013 12:21:53 pm
Reading Two: This reading talked about a scientist named Galton who was actually Darwin's cousin. Galton came up with a theory he called eugenics which said that the upper class was better in every way, intelligence, beauty, "socialness", than the poor. He believed that these things had to do with your genetics and lineage. He eventually wanted to "breed" the best with the best to create a perfect society. I find his entire theory horrific and a bit disgusting. That he was so convinced he was better than the poor and ignored certain findings because of this steadfast belief is repulsive. I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I'm glad he died before he really went and ruined things forever.
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Michelle
10/28/2013 02:06:46 pm
I agree with your disgust and I too, wish it has ended with Galton's death but it continued even after his death and led the sterilization of thousands of people. Not to mention the ideas that it gave Hitler.
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Rachel Deaton
10/28/2013 01:29:13 pm
Reading #2: Francis Galton to me was very arrogant with his beliefs. Eugenics He believed in reproducing to create the perfect race. He thought that the higher class should have more children because they are superior. He connected certain traits to certain races. Which I found was basically the definition of racism itself. He thinks that intelligence was connected to the place people were in. But his research shows that the higher class was not the most intelligent. Yet he still believed in his idea with tests and science.
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Erik Salazar
10/28/2013 01:36:46 pm
Reading 2:
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Preston Royal
10/28/2013 01:37:14 pm
Reading 2: A man known by the name of Francis Galton, an English mathematician and cousin of Charles Darwin, came up with the rather perposterous ice, of what he calls, eugenics. "Eugenics is the science which deals with all influences that improve and develop the inborn qualities of a race", according to Francis Galton. This was an idea of one race and class being more intelligent and better than another. This was really a terrible thing because it mace it seem like if you were born into a non-intelligent family and class, that you could never change that and you would always be the same. For someone to say that the fittest parents make the best children in absolutely ridiculous.
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Salina
10/28/2013 01:42:48 pm
Reading 1: Francis Galton was an English mathematician and cousin to Charles Darwin, Galton brought about the topic of "Eugenics" which was meant to better the human race/population. Eugenics was meant for the population to only breed the best of the best. Galton believed that intelligence and talent was inherit acted by trait and that the upper classes were born with more intelligence and skills. Galton created an intelligence test, to his dismay however it proved his theory wrong when the lower class did just as well as the upper class.
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Quentin Jackson
10/28/2013 02:19:06 pm
Reading 1:
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Shannon Carlson
10/28/2013 02:25:53 pm
Reading 2:
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Vivian Mason
10/28/2013 02:26:41 pm
Reading 2: Set in the 1800's, this reading focuses on Francis Galton's theoretical ideas of "Eugenics". "Eugenics" is described by Galton as "(human)race betterment". He attempts to do this by breeding what he believes are the leading humans of his era with one another. These leaders in the human race were usually upperclass, smart, well spoken, and athletic. Galton believed that if he breed these people together there good traits would continue down to there offspring, then that offsprings - offspring, until he had produced the perfect race. To do so he created a sort of test that he believed would prove that the upper class were the best. To Galton's dismay, his test failed, because the lower class and african americans did just as well as the upper class.
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Adrian Schnepp
10/28/2013 02:39:43 pm
Reading 2: Francis Galton preyed on (or was more like a victim of) the popular belief that the Anglo-Saxon race was infinitely superior to all the other uncouth foreign types that were pouring into the country at the time, as was the brains behind the first idea of eugenics, that is, bettering the human race through selective breeding processes. Imagine it like natural selection, except the processes is engineered by and for humans. Galton ran into a major problem though, that being that his testing and research didn't support his original hypothesis. And then, in the spirit of scientific malpractice, he concluded that his tests must be wrong, for how could the wonderful Anglo-Saxon race be on the same footing as those dirty immigrants?
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Cole Sargent
10/28/2013 03:08:20 pm
Reading #1: The Industrial Revolution (in the late 1800s) pushed people from rural areas to more urban ones, creating a system where it is easy to blame the minority for all that is “new and disturbing in life.” A man named Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, proposed a new and exciting idea: eugenics, the process of “race betterment” through selective breeding or making it unlawful for certain people to breed. Eugenics is a sickening ideology, and one that goes against everything we know as human beings; it calls for the discrimination and separation of people into groups, and calls for the destruction of love, an act that would surely destroy any nation were they to accept eugenics with open arms--it would stab them in the back.
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Cole Sargent
10/28/2013 03:08:55 pm
Meant to say readings #2 and #4...
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Sophia Kormanik
10/28/2013 03:09:40 pm
Reading 2: It talks about the 1800 Industrial Revolution but what really stood out to me is Galton the “Scientist”. Galton thinks intelligence is an inherited trait and that upper class had the more intelligent and accomplished people, he just judged on his own belief. He was really into eugenics the science which deals with all influences that improve and develop the inborn qualities of a race. Even until he died he didn’t know how traits are passed down from parent to child.
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Julz Valencia
10/28/2013 03:32:56 pm
Reading 2: Galton thought that intelligence was genetically inherited. He believed that he could create a superior "race" with only the most intelligent of people. Galton strongly thought that the parents genes combine with the others genes determined how how smart the child would be. Galton thought that the smartest of people were in the upper class and that the lower class of people weren't as intelligent. Even though, when a test was given to both the upper and lower class, the results came back the same and did not show any superiority to the upper class, Galton did not choose to believe his ideas were wrong, essentially he discarded the information provided by the intelligence tests. This was absurd! how can one think and believe something to be so true, yet there is clear evidence against it. This man had no proof in his favor and the only evidence he had went against what he was saying.
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Xochitl Aguinaga
10/28/2013 04:04:39 pm
Reading # 2
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John Laine
10/28/2013 04:34:31 pm
Reading 2: This reading stared off with a very nazi style of thinking for its time were the "best should only breed with the best" type of thinking. Then never really tried to make its self more appealing to the styles of the newly freed people in America. This reading also saying that it was their job to raise the standards of the people. making it better was really not going to make a good splash to most of the newer citizens in America.
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Jessica Pollock
10/28/2013 04:46:07 pm
Reading 1: The Industrial Revolution was the start of families moving out of the small countryside to the large urban cities looking for jobs. These people coming in to these cities were immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, Native Americans, and anyone else who looked, spoke, or acted differently than the people already living there. An English mathematician by the name of, Francis Galton, came up with the theory of eugenics. This theory stated a way to make human race better by "breeding the best with the best". He states that by taking the best of the social classes and breeding them with each other then we will have a brighter future with overall better children.
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Abby Thompson
10/28/2013 05:11:41 pm
2: People from all over the world, from Africa, Europe, and Asia, were traveling to America in search of jobs, and these people were strangers to the people who had always lived in America and were discriminated against for being different. Francis Galton, an English mathematician, thought that these people were lesser because they were different, and believed that the higher classes were the ones who had the most intelligence and accomplishment and that the "fittest races" were the ones that were superior. Galton created a test to see how intelligent one was but was dismayed to see that the poorer people had the same scores as the wealthier people. "The fittest parents produce superior offspring."
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Chelsea
10/28/2013 05:41:33 pm
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Chris dang
10/28/2013 09:52:58 pm
Chapter 2 - During the industrial revolution, people were leaving the countryside and started living in cities. There was such a large crowd of strangers that if something went wrong,it was very easy to blame "them." "Them referred to anyone who wasn't white at the time. "They" became a problem and the whites didn't know how to solve it. Then a man named Francis Galton came by and said that he could solve the problem! All he had to do was start breeding "superior humans" (more white people actually). But he found that breeding was very hard to do because 1 - He found that most cases, the offspring is a tiny bit worse than the parent. And 2 - "their" (non-white) test score were just about the same as "Our" (white) score.
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Halee Robinson
10/29/2013 12:11:15 am
(Reading 1) The industrial revolution, producing new and more efficient production methods, drastically set apart the working class from the middle and upper class. With this separating came different views such as that of Francis Galton, an English mathematician, who believed in 'eugenics.' This is a term he used to describe efforts to improve the human race by "breeding the best with the best," meaning intelligent upper class citizens with other intelligent upper class citizens. He spent his life trying to prove in some way that people in the upper class were naturally more intelligent, or genetically superior in some way.
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Lisa Valtierra
10/29/2013 03:02:14 am
Reading 2: The reading was about the late 1800's during the Industrial Revolution. It posed this idea that Francis Galton (who was English mathematician) and his cousin Charles Darwin, thought that they had to raise everyone in the human race to be at the best "breeding" for the future. It posed the idea that was very similar to Hitler, during the Nazi time, because like Hitler, they thought that only the rich, white, and educated people should breed, so that the future could have white children that could lead our future down the positive road. He used the word eugenics to describe efforts for the "race betterment". I thought it was interesting that he thought that he thought that he need to breed to have a future, it was kind of horrible in a way because there had been Nazi's before and it ended horribly and I don't see why these cousins were in favor of this.
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Max Klein
10/29/2013 05:00:54 am
Reading 2: Eugenics is the process of creating a superior race by selective breeding. There are many reasons why this is not natural and wrong. One of the reasons being if a "perfect race" is created, eventually people will become so similar, that individuality will become no existent. There will be no diversity in the world and traveling would serve no purpose. Cultural differences are extremely interesting and through eugenics, there would be no differences.
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Alexus Seymour
10/29/2013 05:54:19 am
READING 2
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Hayes Sherr
10/29/2013 06:14:04 am
In the 2 reading Francis Galton's theories were based on the idea that individuals are born with a definite endowment of qualities like character, disposition, energy, intellect, or physical power. In his point of view he wanted to change the race by using eugenics. If eugenics were to be done somehow, people would all be the same because he was trying to make only one race. In my opinion this is probably impossible because every human has a different type of life style and race. Galton wanted everyone to be "normal". well what is normal? No one can tell or show what normal is because everyone is different in there own way. When hitler came into play, he wanted everyone to have blonde hair blue eyes and fair skin. If this were to happen most races would get screwed up because everyones hair, eyes, and skin is all different, so this wouldn't be able to work. He thought by making the perfect race, it would also make a better society.
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Karye
10/29/2013 01:15:56 pm
Reading 2:
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