Reaction for Gould

(I could not understand what exactly Gould wanted to say, but…)

Scientists may give very big impacts on society even though they are totally unconscious of it. In Blumenbach’s case, he was never a racist. What he did was just classified people into five groups followed Linnaeus’s system of classifying. He just added “Malay” and make orders of this classification by his subjective view of beauty. However, people and society used his classification to justify the racism. They disrespected blacks and Asians only because they don’t look like whites.

I think people should have been more critical. They just swallowed what scientists said and translated it at the convenience of themselves. This situation may occur every time, even today. So we have to be more critical and what we should believe and how we should translate these information.