Demonstrates how recent scientific discoveries have toppled the concept of biological race
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Product Description Everyone can tell a Nubian from a Norwegian, so why not divide people into races? That's the question taken up in "The Difference Between Us", the first episode in a three-part series titled "Race--the Power of Illusion". This segment demonstrates how recent scientific discoveries have toppled the concept of biological race. It follows a dozen students, including Black athletes and Asian American string players, who sequence and compare their own DNA. The results surprise them--and us--when they discover that their closest genetic matches are as likely to be with people of "other" races as their own. Much of the program is devoted to understanding why people of different "racial" groups are so similar genetically. Looking at skin color differences, disease, human evoluation, even genetic traits, we learn there's not one characteristic, one trait, even a single gene that distinguishes all members of one "race" from another. One by one, our myths about race--including "natural" superiority and inferiority--are taken apart.
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At the Forefront of Recent Research That Dispels Myths of Biological RacesMay 25, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Produced in 2003, this 56 minute VHS video is concerned with new scientific research that dispels the notion of genetic differences as the basis of differences among racial groups. High school students of different "races" map their DNA and are astonished to find that their DNA map is more similar to students of other "races" in their high school class than students of their own "race". The video then explores environmental factors that may have caused biological differences among "racial" groups to evolve over thousands of years. [...]
