eugenics: the legacy by: andrew cedrone, katerina pappas, sharrise vittus, caroline dixon, and...
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Eugenics: The Legacy
By: Andrew Cedrone, Katerina Pappas, Sharrise Vittus,
Caroline Dixon, and Ellliot Holden
How does race affect people's lives?
• Superiority between races
• Privileges for some
• Unfair Education
• Economic opportunities
• Poverty
Poverty Rate: 1972 to 2007
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What are the moral questions around genetics that are still questioned today?
• Designer babies • Creating life
• Stem-cell research
• Cloning
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Did kids in the suburbs do better on the IQ tests? Why?
• Evidence that IQ can be lowered depending on test taking environment.
• City schools have lower expectations for students, teachers get paid less.
• Few scientists today believe that intelligence is static
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How has the attitude towards immigrants changed?
• Get worse working
conditions and education (lowest class level)
• Favored immigrants from West Europe but cut off immigrants from Asia and Africa
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How did abortion go from being accepted to becoming such a controversial issue?
• Because America went from having the highest birthrates to the lowest, many eugenicists discouraged woman from having abortions.
How do eugenicists and religion shape people's values and beliefs?
• All in all, directs science in what is "right" and "wrong"
morally.
How do we as members of a society decide which differences matter and which do not?
• We as a society set a standard (a "model Citizen") for people to match. Anyone above or below this standard is seen as different.
• We also tend to set ourselves as the standard and compare everyone to our self.
How do these decisions shape our ideas about what it means to be a human being in the 21st
century?
• We believe anyone different from a "model citizen" is different.
• A "model citizen" blends into society in both the way they look and the way they act.
What are the positive and negative aspects of abortion?
• Can't Afford to support child
• Mother physically incapable of giving birth (age, medical conditions, etc.)
• Rape
• Severe physiological effects including depression, anxiety, and suicide.
• Selective abortion (eugenics)
• A human life is being eliminated
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