Have you ever stopped to think what Eugenics really is and how does it affect the world? Eugenics was the racist pseudoscience determined to wipe away all human beings deemed “unfit”, preserving only those who conformed to a Nordic stereotype. Elements of the philosophy were enshrined as national policy by forced sterilization and segregation laws, as well as marriage restrictions, enacted in twenty-seven states within the United States. With that being said, eugenics is not so much of a science as a social arrogance and form of “social control” (Black 77). It is scientific racism, defective, and yet, still very much of a concept in today’s world. Intelligence, also, thought out to be an inherited trait. The idea of making a master race led to the introduction of sterilization laws and prohibiting those of different social statuses to …show more content…
O.F. Cook states that “…improvements of plants and animals are of this nature, and represent higher degrees of uniformity, rather than more advanced stages of evolutionary progress.” (30) When breeders breed an animal or plant, they look for homogeneity. If breeding were applied to humans everyone would look the same, and who would want that? There will be no individual opinion, thought or creativity, a dull tasteless world. Lewis Terman promoted Galton’s idea that intelligence was inherited, a natural ability. Intelligence and one’s mental ability were defined with an IQ test. Things such as family size were also taken into consideration as J.M. Tanner