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If you went into a thing that was called at the time, we still call it today a natural history museum.

You know, you would go into rooms that might have some dinosaur bones or a stuffed polar bear.

And then you'd make your way into rooms that showed you so-called primitive people.

And it was appropriate to house displays about human beings alongside displays of bison and grizzly bears.

Because of course, those people were closer to animals.

And so in the United States and Western Europe, you were surrounded by these ideas.

Hey, I'm Ramteen Arableui.

I'm Randab de Fateh.

And on this episode of Thurlain from mpr, the invention of race.

So back when I was an undergrad in college, I majored in cultural anthropology.

And honestly, most of the time when I told people that, their eyes would glaze over.

By the way, there's no great translation for it in Arabic.

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