Reaction to Shreeve

Shreeve’s main point of the text “Terms of Estrangement” is that whether there is “race” which is objectively and scientifically proved. He cites many opinions of different experts such as anthropologists and medical researchers. Some of them believe the existence of race, but others do not. Shreeve’s point of view is not shown clearly. As a final comment, he quotes Smouse’s words which mention that it is clear that people are genetically different between each group, however, the difference which can be called race are depending on perspectives.

In my opinion, there are some physical characteristics created by geography and inheritance, so it is possible to create typical models of humans. They can be applied to people in medical situation. However, there is no human who applies to one of these models, so the opposite approach, categorizing humans into these models called race, is impossible.