Racism and adoption

For me racism is the worst form of prejudice.We are all individuals which belong to the same species or sub-species, so individuality should not be recognised by racial profiles. No one should be categorised into a race despite the temptation to do so. All of us have different coloured eyes, skin or different shaped heads despite the fact that the genetic make up of each one of us is so close that we are almost clones of one another. Racial prejudice is the result of either malice or ignorance or both. The ignorance can be fought with education . To eliminate the malice will be more difficult.

We should make a start, to eliminate racialism, by treating every individual the same despite their skin colour. Of course,we should take cultural background into account in out dealings with one another. But, we should also recognise that if a "white skinned" child is adopted at birth by a Japanese family, living in Japan, then that child will end up being culturally Japanese despite its physical appearance. Following on from this dark skinned parents should not be not prevented from adopting light skinned children. Culture is not inherited via the genes, it is acquired because nature has genetically given us the ability as a child, or even an adult, to acquire any culture and learn any language. Culture and genetic inheritance should not be linked in any other way. There are many parent less children in the UK, and there are far too many for adoption to be impeded by "racial" and cultural profiling. A white skinned child is far better being brought up by loving parents of any skin colour rather than an institution. The same principle applies to all other children and their potential adoptive parents. Skin colour should not enter the equation.

It is disingenuous for scientists to make claims that any individual can be superior or inferior intellectually or otherwise on the basis of skin colour as this flies in the face of all the evidence. Any scientist that proposes this should know better. There is no real basis for "racial" profiling to be included in any decision making about how we treat one another.

It is time to eliminate racial prejudice wherever it exists and allow everyone to live up to their full potential rather than holding them back on the basis of skin colour.