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71 SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE “I have a dream that one day men will rise up and come to see that they’re made to live together as brothers…” Martin Luther King Racism, one of the most distressing intellectual evils of our time, tends to develop constantly. What kind of pretext does it find in pseudoscientific theories? Organize a “scientific conference” on the problem of racism. Choose 2 conductors; other students from both groups may act as biologists, historians, doctors and anthropologists presenting their theories for and against racism. Some of the following questions may be put on the agenda: - Is there any biological meaning of the word “race”? - What can serve as a basis for hierarchy between individuals or population groups? - The factors used to compare different population groups; two individuals. - Can the results of a psychological test and the intelligence quotient be used to promote social ostracism and racial discrimination? - The role of culture and environment, and others. In opposing the pseudoscientific theories you may use material from biology and history articles, as well as the discoveries, made by the anthropologist Richard Leakey in Tanzania which make the origin of man several million years older than had been thought and point to a specific origin for the whole human adventure. Action by the United Nations Through the UN, nations have agreed: - That all human beings should have equal dignity and rights - That national governments should condemn racial discrimination and undertake to pursue by all appropriate means a policy of eliminating racial discrimination in all its forms and of promoting understanding among the races. - That the UN and governments should keep track of how well these agreements are being carried out At the end of the “conference” get ready to present a project (a picture, a poem, a song, an article, a scene or any of the kind) to show your attitude to the problem of r...