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Q Review the American Anthropological Association’s Statement on Race (Links to an external site.) (See also: Anthropology textbook pp.96-97) or on the association’s website. What are the main arguments described in the statement? Why do you think there was such a public statement necessary by this professional organization? Was this statement surprising to you? Does it challenge or support your views of race and the problem of racial categorization?

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This organization has thrown a penetrative light on the basic components of race. It has emphatically argued that race is how people assign meaning on someone’s body color or someone’s look. Additionally, the sole purpose of RACE project as per this website is to explain the difference and diversities among people. With change of human origin, characteristics and features of human beings also changes. American Anthropological Association seeks to address these differences and diversities for the sake of applying the understanding in order to resolve the most pressing problem of America, race problem. I personally believe that this kind of public address is of extreme importance from a public organization,