Genetics and Eugenics
Genetics is scientific study of heredity in general and genes in particular while eugenics is a term used to refer to the study or belief in there being a possibility to improve the qualities of human species by discouraging people with genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable characteristics (negative eugenics) to reproduce or encouraging reproduction by people presumed to posses inheritable desirable characteristics (positive eugenics). It was the racist pseudoscience hell bent to wipe away all people deemed "unfit," Local eugenics groups and societies sprang up across the United States after World War I, with such names as the Race Betterment Foundation. The aftermath of the war left many Americans with a great fear of foreigners and to the US was still in the rise. The American Eugenics was founded in 1923 and swiftly grew to twenty nine chapters across the country. At exhibitions and fairs, word was spread by eugenicists and hosted and “better ...