Shreeve's "Terms of Estrangement"

Shreeve mainly discuss how people use race and how people consider the idea of race. He shows it by giving some examples of the actual use in police and in medical research moreover he cites several experts’ views both approval and disapproval. However, he does not clearly show his own opinion or tendency to which ideas he agrees. At the end of his argument he shares an idea from Smouse. According to Smouse, he complains that though there are genetic differences between groups of people, classification is just a matter of perspective and the result of dividing can be changed easily by the criteria of the question.

In some part, I agree with the idea of Smouse that the classification of race is nonsense. However, the practical use of race such as medical research is still important. For example, the shape of the body is so much different from each race and that difference affects the possibility of being sick. Also the dose of medicine that one takes would be different according to the average size of its race one is belonging to.