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Beauty
By Ann Rincon and Marietta Hammond

We are working on an exhibit, which expresses that we are all beautiful. Most of the research on race, showed how race mostly serves to label people. We realized it was a social construct, which holds no scientific merit. There are too many variances in humans geographically, culturally as well as phenotype. We learned that by fitting people into nice categories has only caused more problems in our society. It has caused many problems and misunderstandings. Many people have different definitions of race. Not many people know the true meaning of this word. As humans we are 99% alike. Yet Anthropologist have not done enough to educate the public on these similarities and rather there is a focus on the differences. We felt that an exhibit on the similarities is the best way to remind us that it’s really about the human race.

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