THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
EUGENICS AND NATIVISM
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Certain behaviors & personality traits were genetic and you could not overcome your DNA
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People might have certain genes, but their DNA was not their destiny
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The aim of eugenics is to represent each class or sect by its best specimens, causing them to contribute more than their proportion to the next generation; that done, to leave them to work out their common civilisation in their own way.
Detailed explanation-2: -Advocates of eugenics as social improvement argued that this science would, within a few generations, transform human populations, much like agricultural breeders had created new productivity and utility out of the germplasm of domesticated animals and plants.
Detailed explanation-3: -It was Francis Galton, a cousin of Darwin, who coined the term “eugenics” in 1883 while advocating that society should promote the marriage of what he felt were the fittest individuals by providing monetary incentives.