Sunday, January 10, 2010

Results of Sorting People Quiz

As I had expected, I got many of these wrong. I had taken this quiz last year, but I could not remember how they were sorted. My total correct was 4, with 2 Asians, 1 Native American, and 1 Black correct. This quiz really shows us how we can not base some one's race on what they look like and that skin color is not a paired to other genes that appear to make up that race, including eye shape, hair color, or anything else.

3 comments:

  1. If race isn't based on skin color or any other combination of genetic traits, what is it based on?

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  2. If race was to be used to categorize people, then I think that it should be based more on a person's heritage rather than what they appear to look like.

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  3. Correct. But we can go further -- it's not a case of "it should be". It's a case of educated people understanding that it IS -- and that any other view is one grounded in ignorance.

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