Eugenics was a hybrid of science and a social movement aimed at improving the quality of the human race for future generations.

According to its theory, people with good bloodlines should have more children, while people with poor bloodlines should have fewer (or even no) children.

In 1883, the British polymath Francis Galton first proposed the term "eugenics" in Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development.

By the early twentieth century, the eugenics movement was gaining momentum in Europe and North America.

Whether in today's popular culture circles or academia, people regard eugenics as an old thing, believing that it quickly perished along with the Nazi regime due to the extreme eugenics measures implemented by fascist Germany after 1945.

The Nazis' enthusiasm for eugenics led them to commit numerous atrocities: Jewish concentration camps, involuntary euthanasia, genocide... After people all over the world learned about the atrocities of the Nazis, there was no market for eugenics.

Eugenics is no longer a social movement backed by state power, nor is it a scientific concept that is recognized by the public and can guide social policy.

In fact, eugenics is not far away from us.

In 1972, the new provincial government officials came to power and quickly repealed the Sterilization Act.

Today, most of the victims of this act have passed away, but a few are still alive and joining the fight.

Current sterilization policies are far from flashbacks to the history of eugenics. They are evidence of ongoing and increasingly new eugenic practices in the world.

Eugenics has never disappeared, it has always been with us.