Video Race 1

1) The thesis of this video was to show the viewers that genetically people from different races are not that different.

2) The author showed us a classroom that was doing an experiment and testing their DNA and comparing it to one another. During the experiment the students had to pick a person who they thought they would be most genetically alike, and most of the students picked people of their same race. The results from the experiment showed that all the students were all almost alike from each other. The author talked about how skin color does not define the race of a person because skin color is based on the geographical location of a person. He also talked about how people's cultures are based on what their skin looked like, for example the video mentioned Colin Powell about how everyone thought he was African American because of his skin color, and how people failed to realize that he was also Irish. The author also talked about how many different tests were run on African Americans to see how they were different than the whites. These tests looked at both body parts, and the health of the African Americans. Some of the tests were flawed however because the experimenters failed to look at other factors. The author was showing the viewers that even though tests were run, those tests may be wrong and cannot prove that people are different based on their races.

3) What types of tests could be run, with modern day technology, to see if there is a difference between the races?
Could it be possible that one race is actually better than the other, or is that always going to be based on the eye of the beholder?

4) I think that it is true that the different races are not different based on their skin color. The thing that causes the most difference in the different races is how they are raised compared to the other cultures. It is a matter of nurture versus nature. The races are different because of what they believe in and how they live compared. The color of a person's skin does not make them a certain type of person, their skin color makes them that color. Skin color cannot affect how a person acts, or how athletic a person may be. I believe that if genetics proves that we are not different from each other, then our assumption that we are different is based on what we see and what we think, and that as a society it is hard for us to believe that we can all be alike. Since we are a society that sees differences on the outside we will have trouble to get over the outside and see what is on the inside.