Try to explain why there is so much variation in our society.\n\nHow does this compare to 100 years ago?
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Some Dude gave a great answer-I would add, just for interest, that the human race has exceedingly little genetic variation compared to other animals.  A recent study showed that an average-sized chimpanzee colony has more genetic variation that the entire human race.  This is presumably because at some point in the recent past (150-200,000 years) our common ancestors existed, and evidently our race must have been very close to going extinct, leaving a very small pool of humans with which to populate the Earth.
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It's not something so provocative as "being different". It's tradition. Our fathers and grandfathers grew up learning and using the customary system and we were taught the same units. So we learned to measure distances in miles and lengths in feet and inches. As a result, units like liters and meters, while easier to interconvert and scientifically acceptable, have not caught on here.
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We are too similiar to each other to be considered different subspecies.  Things like skin color are literally skin deep (as genetics have proven so in the last decade).  As for intellect, we don't know if it is genetic or environmental.\n\nTo answer your question, evolution is a very slow process.  Like you yourself said, it will take a few millenia.  In order for humans to evolve into two differene subspecies we have to stay seperate, for example, two different groups and they should not intermate.  If it is a matter of migration, they should NOT migrate and stay in one place.  But the problem is that humans are very dynamic AND very impatient.  We cannot stay in one place for long and evolution based on third world or the developed world would not be possible unless all the developed world countries close their doors and allow NO ONE to immigrate or emigrate for a few thousand years.
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We have evolved through these ages ourselves, with no help from some fairy tale. Humanity allows itself to be repressed by foolish stories of gods.
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there are so many things which have changed even in the short life I have lived. can remember not locking the doors at night ( even in town ), walking late at night without fear, neighbors helping each other without expecting anything in return. getting in trouble at school meant trouble when arriving home. calling people older than you Mr. and Mrs. or Mr. and Miss. never by their first name. liking others and respecting police officers, firefighters, veterans, etc. because they have, are and will continue to preserve this nation.
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Language is not static and it evolves according to the social circumstances in which it is spoken. So English 300 years from now will be as different as Elizabethan English is now. Jules. Australia.
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There are obvious cultural differences that exist between peoples, such as language, dress and traditions, there are also significant variations in the way societies organise themselves, in their shared conception of morality, and in the ways they interact with their environment. It is debatable whether these differences are merely incidental artefacts arising from patterns of human migration or whether they represent an evolutionary trait that is key to our success as a species. By analogy with biodiversity, which is thought to be essential to the long-term survival of life on earth, it can be argued that cultural diversity may be vital for the long-term survival of humanity; and that the conservation of indigenous cultures may be as important to humankind as the conservation of species and ecosystems is to life in general.
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The last I read, it is not like back in the day. Keep it tight, as close to the page content as possible, no copy tricks and short. That is a short summary of 4 pages I read on the topic.\nGood Luck\n\ncannot recall the exact source or I would give you a link.\n\nDon't forget to vote for best answer for whomever
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Well you are demonstrating it with the horrible spelling and syntax you used in your question unless that was intentional.\n\nI overall disagree with your premise. I don't think we have become more stupid. There is a significantly greater amount of information required of a person today than there was 200 years ago. Further formal education hardly existed in the country prior to the 1860's. If you are looking at a test from that period it most likely was from a private academy where then, as now, students were put up to more vigorous standards.\n\nAdditionally, most young people completed their education by the age of 14 and were moved into apprentice programs to learn a trade. The number of young men, remember most young ladies were excluded from formal schooling, who actually attended college were minute when compared to today's world.\n\nMost people in this country never received a formal education and the level of illiteracy was in excess of 50%. As opposed to today when the level is less than 20% for adults.
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This page has links involving behavior and attire expected from people in the Victorian era.  You can find at least 5 things on here.\n\nhttp://www.victoriaspast.com/VictorianGentlemen/dadsdesk.html
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It is from my past knowledge and literature review to tell you that Im not completly sure. However I do have a educated answer considering my college background and many years of knowlege in the academic field. \n  One thing that you have to realize is that the events that are happening now are just different versions of what has happened in the past, with the exception of global warming which I will explain later. This meaning that you have to look back at thousands of years of history to see that bad things, just as they are happening now, happened then just different in forms. For exsample the "Black Death" that occured in the 1300's that struck with such lethal force and killed more people in Europe than both world wars combined!!! Nothing of that magnitude has happened since. And exsamples like this are evident throughout history. Realize how contemporary out lives are; and that things are maybe the worse they have ever been , but they are really the worse they have ever beeen in our lifetime. As for the global warming thing, that is a problem but the rising temperatures and sea levels are also due the the obital patterns our earth is going through. Don't get me wrong global warming is greatly our fault, but sometimes we need to sit back and realize that this earth has been here for millions of years and every generation before us as thought the same thing you have. What happens, will happen but maybe you can rest easier knowing we are not the only civilization who has thought this.
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Evrything is individual, and we are all different persons, with different beliefs, personal values, emotions, and genetics. Don't expect people to be similar to each other. Accept differences.
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Society is evolving, some generations are getting better, some worse.\n\nOver time natural selection will take over, the people who do "better"  will continue, those who do not will fade away.
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personally. women of yesterday are greater than us now. they had more strict standards to live by and they probably had a lot more pressure and expectations from men.
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Each step in evolution, even cultural evolution, has to be an improvement over the one before, or it won't last.\n\nI think that the evolution of culture shows that when people cooperate, they all do better.\n\nI think it was Desmond Morris who wrote that the huge amount of learning that human children have to do to live in a culture was made possible by their extremely slow rate of growth before sexual maturity (about 12-18 years), compared to other primates.  And often our culture stretches this out even further, causing a lot of tension between the generations.\n\nIn highly complex cultures like ours, children are often 20 years old or older before they have finished their education and are ready to be fully responsible adults.  In less complex societies, you might see that a child of 12 or 13 has learned enough to become a member of adult society.
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Nice answer...but the question says 1800s and your answer says 1900s?
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Remember in Social Studies like 80 million years ago, when we learned about the barter system?\nI've often thought that society would be so much better if we acted like people did in the old days.\nBack when everybody was a farmer or had something to do with farming.....well, it WAS the life, after all.  People had to WORK, and therefore, children learned values and morals.  You couldn't have a roof over your head if you didn't build one, you couldn't have food on the table if you didn't grow it or kill it.\nPeople didn't get fat and lazy, because....well, if you're lazy, you die (based on the aforementioned actions of survival).  People didn't rip people off, because everybody had something somebody else might need, so why not work for each other and trade with each other....\nI prefer a simple life, myself.  I don't need much more space than you'd find in a single-car garage.  Plumbing is nice, but anybody who's ever been camping knows how to squat.  Food is far less expensive if you buy the ingredients in bulk and make it yourself, not to mention the nutritional value of ingesting foods not "processed"....  \nYou see where I'm going with this?