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In this video i think the authors thesis is that race is something that is created by society, and not necessarly biological. It talks about many different situations where race has played a part in history, a couple are racism among african americans and white americans and Hitlers Arian race. In the video race is defined as "divisions among people that are deep that are essential that are somehow biological and unchanging." A person is able to identify another person by simply looking at their physical features including skin color, eye color, and hair color just to name a few. The video claims that scientists cannot find a gene that is in everybody of one particular race and no one of another. There was a experiment conducted in the video of a group of college kids all of a different ethnicity. What they discovered was a shock to them, they were most similar with someone completely different than themselves. For instance, an african american was most similar to a white student, and an Asian was most similar to an african american, males we most similar with females. In this video they also brought up stereotypes of athletes, speciffically African Americans in running track. The stereotype is that they are naturally faster than any other races, some people thought it to be an extra muscle in their legs, or something else biologically. However this is only a stereotype, and for the most part not true,
I thought this video was extremely well done. I enjoyed watching it and actually learned a lot about different ethnicities and how similar people really are even though they look completely different on the outside. I think everything is well researched. Overall i was really excited to watch the video and learned a great deal amount of information from stereotypes to biology.