Reaction to Gould

The Geometer of race written by jay Gould deals with how to classify human being into a well-organized order. In 17th century when Linnaeus classified humans into four category by geographical distance, Blumenbach made use of that classification and put one new race, the Malay on it. Although most scientists missed this minor change, Gould regards the change as  a theoretical change because it changes a mere geographical human order into a hierarchical human order based on beauty.

In page 8, Gould says that Blumenbach were discussing an objective property, not subject to doubt or disagreement, but ,in my opinion, this classification of humans based on how beautiful they are is rather subjective. This is just because beauty varies from person to person. Just as large part of text of the World History in Japan accounts for the history of Europe or America because people in those areas are relatively winners in history and are able to choose events that are deeply related to them and exclude the unfit events, how beautiful Caucasian is deeply influenced by social background at that time.