
Since man first decided to travel to see the world in which he lives and subjugate other nations, he has felt the need to understand and explain the differences in development that distinguished the several human groups. However, the output of some allegedly scientific studies consisted of crude classifications, such as those stating that European whites were mentally superior because the temperate and mild climate they lived in favored the development of their brain, contrary to the case of Africans and Latin Americans living in the heat of the tropics. After centuries of struggles, these taxonomies further deepened the furrow separating rich and poor nations and formed the basis of the economic policy of rich countries, in their pursuit of the perpetuation of power.

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