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Comment on: Re: Is race blood?

Bigthink — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:22:37 +0100

Last I heard, if anything this kind of research shows that our actual origins are very mixed, and as Rozen said, do not lead to support of any ideas of 'race.' I know of at least one Scandinavian (very blond hair, very blue eyes) who turned up to have a genetic heritage including both Africans and Asians.

Comment on: Re: Is race blood?

Bigthink — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:35:39 +0100

I do have to say DNA testing have gotten a lot of brothers out of jail!

Comment on: Re: Is race blood?

Bigthink — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:03:22 +0100

Genetics so far have disproven the idea of race.

However, I understand your caution because Americans do live in a highly racialized society, and when you bring that together with snippets of genetic knowledge it can be easy for people to distort the factual information when it is coupled with the racial myths that dominate their thinking.