Some great news for me! After two years at LCC and a lot of hard work I will be receiving my Associates' Degree and heading off to greener pastures in search of my Bachelors! LCC has been good to me and I will miss going to school there with my boy but I'm ready for the U of O!
But that isn't why I am writing.
I am taking an Anthropology class in World Archaeology this term which is a really fascinating subject. So far we've learned about the Mayan culture, the preserved remains at Pompeii, and how archaeologists study remains they have uncovered. While diving into chapter 5 I learned about previous human beings and their differences from modern human beings(us). The oldest human remains that have been discovered are about 400,000 years old. There has been "Premodern" "Transitional" and "Neandertal" humans along with anatomically modern humans discovered, this has all been determined by the remains and bones that have been left behind and carbon dated.
So what is so interesting about this?
Well apparently several of these different species of humans lived on the Earth at the same time and possibly interacted with one another. A French author wrote a novel about the presence of a "lesser" human Neandertal and the slavery and discrimination they could have been subjected to.
Think about it...
The humans that exist on Earth right now are all of the same species. While many of us may look different from one another and there will always be different people, we are all technically the same species. And yet we let the way we treat each other depend on skin pigment and personal views despite the fact that there is no pre-determind physical appearence that classifies us as different.
Imagine if we DID have different species of humans! The amount of discrimination that would then exist would be even higher than it is now!
Many people in the past and today think of human races as different trees planted in the same field when really we are just different branches of the same tree. Whether we are related or not, strangers or friends, family or...otherwise, we all belong together and depend on each other. Don't let appearence determine your views of a person because we are all people
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