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Scientists and sociologists for the most part have finally been able to discount the concept of race as having no scientific basis, though what is perhaps a more important and fundamental aspect of the race phenomenon is that it was able to happen at all. Indeed, race is a purely a social construct and explanations for it on a scientific level can not be provided, however one part of the peculiar concept is surely traceable to biological origins: the capacity of humans to discern and implement the idea. The ability to make categorizations, to separate and then classify people based on their skin color is an inherent human characteristic (other animals are not racist?) and so when discussing how racialization occurred and can occur, it should be noted that the imposition of stringent ideologies was and is not a new phenomenon; people have been capable of and have done it for centuries just not in the way race does by skin color. When race was introduced as a concept it was not hard......

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