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Is It Better To Be Mixed Race? (2009)
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to ChannelAdded November 4, 2009Video Info
| By: | Kontraband |
| Category: | Television |
| Length: | 47:50 |
| Resolution: | 512 x 368 |
| Filesize: | 235 MB |
| Language: | English |
| Viewed: | 2729 times |
Fifth Documentary in the Race: Sciences Last Taboo Series
Is It Better To Be Mixed Race?
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...Fifth Documentary in the Race: Sciences Last Taboo Series
Is It Better To Be Mixed Race?
This documentary from the Race: Science's Last Taboo season asks is it a biological advantage to have parents of different ethnic backgrounds?
Before 1967, it was illegal in 16 American states for a black person and white person to marry. Right wing groups on both sides of the Atlantic continue to espouse that the mixing of races is destructive and against some kind of natural order.
Aarathi Prasad, a geneticist and mother of a mixed race child, sets out to challenge the ideas of racial purity and examines provocative claims that there are in fact biological advantages to being mixed race.
It's a controversial subject that has aroused much opposition from both ends of the political spectrum, but does greater genetic diversity confer advantages in humans, as seen in the breeding of plants and animals, or are lifestyle and environment the primary influences?
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Yes technically we are all mixed, but mixing with people similar to you is completely different than mixing with people different that you. If I mix spring water with distilled water its still water, however if I mix water with certain leaves you get TEA.
Its also proven that hybrid organism tend to inherit favorable traits versus organism that are from a smaller (similar) gene pool, That's why the Royalty in England have so many genetic diseases such as hemophilia.
One thing overlooked is in regards to Africans and their descendants. People of African decent tend to dominate athletics. The fact is that Africans are as diverse as two other people from different races. During the slave trade the different Africans mixed with each other. This "hybrid Vigor" theory could explain African American athleticism also.