I think what shocked me more about this chapter and mostly at the beginning when the topic of races shows up. I think Europeans took it to the extreme when they started to degrade certain races because the European race was superior. They started to compare the other races to animals and things/people who were below them. Not only that but they believed that race was everything as one of the man that was quoted in the book said. Whites became first and then anything else came below whites, this was the beginning of when racial issues became explicit, slavery was the foundation of it.
Even now people still act favorably towards people of lighter skin color just because of their appearance. I learned in my psychology course that if you put a Caucasian women, Caucasian man, and a colored female along with a colored male in a car dealer the Caucasian male would get the best deal. The woman of color would get the highest price that they could sell the car for and it's just prejudice and racial profiling.
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