Myth of Race Agustin Fuentes analysis

Fuentes through the article succeeds in incorporating the easy understanding of genetics and evolution that specifically require individuals to be well able to dispose of the notions of both nature and nurture (Fuentes 12). In addition to this, the article looks at exploring a number of scientific evidence from complex and diverse fields, and this is inclusive of anthropology, psychology, and biology. The author appropriately creates a myth to break into different portions concerning the validity of the biological races. This further explores the realness of race and how it impacts all kinds of people. A race for one forms part of social categories, and it plays a significant role in individual’s lives, together with the histories and future (Fuentes 70). The explanation to this is that many individuals in today's world view this division of humans into races as being part of human nature, and other than that, this myth assumes explicitly that people can be able to define a specific set of traits that can be used in differentiating one race from the other through the limited overlap that exists between the diverse members (Fuentes 72).

One thing about this aspect is that it also assumes that the differences that come from some positions such as health, intelligence, leadership, innate behavior and aggression are what define the differences in races such as black race, white race or the Asian race. The fact about the people who mostly follow these set of beliefs is that they are much likely to accept these groups overlap in a variety of ways, and further from that, the first belief is also based on the fact that interbreeding between these groups in highly possible and might not necessarily be detrimental. According to Harrison who is a journalist, there are claims that most people irrespective of what might be held in the public agree to some degree on the aspect of natural reality of human races (Fuentes 72).

This reality as seen can further be tested scientifically, and what this does is that it buys on one of the myths that relate to race which in addition to that suggests of the suite of correlates. Despite the fact that race is not biological, it has the capabilities of affecting biology, and this goes especially with health, according to the article there is clear indication that the racial, social structures, range from the access to health care to an individual's racialized image, and can cause an impact on the different ways that both the body and the immune system develops (Fuentes 74). This further enhances the notion that states that despite race not being a biological unit, it can have significant biological effects that come from the implications of racism.

Through this aspect, there is an explicit representation of education, cognition, development, and health. Despite the fact that human beings mostly vary biologically as illustrated, it can be demonstrated that this variation does not group up and take racial positions (Fuentes 72). Many research materials including books, articles, and official statements have been explicit on this point. I wholeheartedly agree with Fuentes argument on this, and I profoundly believe that race can in no way be divided into biological units. Individuals are just made of the same species, the only difference in this comes with the difference in skin colors and also the different lives lived by individuals. All forms of races have differences in looks, culture, health, and way of living, but this does not prove to the acclaimed differences in the biological units.