IB_sucks Posted March 21, 2009 Report Share Posted March 21, 2009 My group and I have formulated a topic for our TOK presentation and it is "Does Race exist?" I thought of this topic because my 8th grade history teacher was the one to first bring it up in a class and i was really interested in it. Is this topic too cliche or not creative enough etc. Can anyone give me feedback on this. Thanks in advance. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panserborne Posted March 21, 2009 Report Share Posted March 21, 2009 [quote name='IB_sucks' post='41262' date='Mar 21 2009, 01:18 PM']My group and I have formulated a topic for our TOK presentation and it is "Does Race exist?" I thought of this topic because my 8th grade history teacher was the one to first bring it up in a class and i was really interested in it. Is this topic too cliche or not creative enough etc. Can anyone give me feedback on this. Thanks in advance.[/quote] I don't think it's too cliched. If you were doing euthanasia or abortion or stem cells, well they've been done to death, but your topic sounds interesting to me. I imagine you'll have interesting discussions... with those trying to defend the notion of actually scientifically splitting humans into different "races", it should be easy to counter, by challenging them with the gradual nature of evolution, and just how you can put up this random boundary of "race" at certain biological phenotypes. (For what it's worth, I think most people, when they talk about "race" and different "races", just mean something along the lines of ethnicity, or common traits, not what, at least I think of as race. But I could be wrong.) Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IB_sucks Posted March 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2009 thanks panserborne, can more peope give me advice, i do see 15 views but only one post. plz Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandwich Posted March 22, 2009 Report Share Posted March 22, 2009 You should be sure to use isolated rural communities to show how race can exist in certain places. 'Race', genetically speaking, is a load of people who're very genetically close. Not so many people like that nowadays, but in some very rural locations, it can happen Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahuta ♥ Posted March 22, 2009 Report Share Posted March 22, 2009 I think you should make your title more focused. It's too broad and unless you can talk about all aspects in the given time, your title wouldn't be suitable for your content. Good topic though. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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