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Thursday, September 2, 2010
Race: The Power of Illusion
What are your thoughts on this film? Did the film change or challenge any of your assumptions on race? Did anything in the film surprise you? Why?
38 comments:
2Extra Crispy
said...
This film is a very eye-opening experience. It was interesting and surprising to see how there was a classroom filled with different people that thought they were similar to only those who were of the same skin color and appearance yet they were most similar, genetically, to people that didn't look anything like them. This really puts race into perspective in the fact that it is something that we assign to other people on the way they fit a certain appearance and traits. However, the movie showed us that race has nothing to do with biology, but is in fact the way we perceive someone.
the movie was very interesting. it fit perfectly into the class and the idea that we are in fact much more similar than we think. there really is no differecne geneticly between differect races. everyone is really the same, and should all be treated the same.
I think that this film was pretty annoying. I hate stereotyping and feel as if sometimes the things just happen to be true, it has nothing to do with race,skin tone, nor nationalities. You could be mixed with a ton of things, and yet people would still believe that your dominant race is the reasoning behind you being better than others at certain things. It's either natural, or hard work that's paying off..It has absolutely nothing to do with where you came from or how well your race typically performs in that specific area or talent. However, the film did not shape my opinions of others in any way shape or form.
This film not only showed how different people can be, but also described race in a different light. I agree with "Extra Crispy" in that we as humans establish how people should act or look based on their race. This movie surprised me in that people of the same race could act and look totally different. I truly believe that race is just a means of background and people should not stereotype based on that factor.
my thoughts on this flim are that it is a very good flim to show to prove to kids and students that becuase someone looks different doesnt make them that much diffent than you or me at all. the flim didnt really change my assumptions on race but i did clarify some things i never knew. the main thing from the film that suprised me was when the students were using the skin charts and alot of the kids were in a very close range on the darkness scale.
The film to me brought everything that was stereotyped about to the light, they basically proved that everything that was said is wrong. Like all blacks can dance, not true, im half black and i can't dance :) but the film actually didnt suprise me to be honest.
My thoughts on this film are that it is a great eye-opening experience to show to students. Although, the fact that I am an African American that has to sometimes face these stereotypes and racial issues, seeing this film was just another new flash to me on how ignorant people can be when it comes to your physical features, culture, athletic abilities, and etc. Like Agnus, I also hate stereotyping. Just because my skin color happens to be brown does not mean my lips are supposed to be as big as Jay Z. Not all blacks have big lips, I know this because I sure do not and neither do a lot of other black people that I know or seen. The funny thing is that it can just be possible that a caucasian, asian, or any other nationality has big lips too. Just like the stereotype that Jewish people have big noses,that is also not true, and if you assume that when you see a person with a big nose that there Jewish not only are you stereotyping that person before you actually meet them. Does it ever stumble upon you that what if that person turns out to be christian or catholic how stupid would you feel? I think you would probably feel pretty stupid. Lastly, I truly believe that race is a term that people assign to others on there physical attributes, without truly understanding the word race, because race has absolutely nothing to do with your biology makeup. You might just figure out that someone of a different nationality might be more like you then a person that is the same nationality as you.
I thought the movie put a lot of things into perspective. It's almost strange to think about how alike humans are compared to many other species, yet somehow we're the species that is most critical of each other based on appearance. It's crazy to think that fruit flies have a more different DNA than humans do. For me, this movie opened my eyes to the obscenity of how people criticize and judge one another based on appearance. We are all so similar that no biologist or doctor can pick any human apart and try to come up with a major difference in our genes that would make one race so superior to another. It's almost as if race is just a perception of someone, because there are no concrete differences internally to separate one race from another. Although it's not always easy to see how alike we all are, there is no need to stereotype someone based on looks, race, or skin color.
This vedio was interesting to me, because it showed me how people think about themselfs and it allowed me to think how I thought about myself and my friends, if I only hung with the black kids or the white kids or any oter ethnic group in the school. because of this I feel that the kids in our school are very accepting even though sometimes all the black kids sit at one table. in the movie they explained the way people thought about the blacks in the olympics and how they thought that, the african amaericans were closer to the animal than the human and were geneticaly better built for sports. they also said that in the class that was being monitered that the kids found out that a white kid had more incommon with a latino because of blood type or something more geneticaly or phisicaly advanced. i see that in this movie they mentioned Hitler's Airean race who he believed was better than the rest.
and i ment to finish by saying even though we are all catagorized by skin color and parents and ethninticity that we are all diffrent but when it comes down to it we are all the same we are and will be all the same, what makes us diffrent is who we are personaly not judge by what others think we are.
I thought that the film was very interesting and had many similar ideas that i used to agree with. The example was when the students had to guess who they were most similar too, I would of choose the same people they did. Another example would be about how black runners are faster, I used to agree and make up random excuses as to why. One thing that suprised me was how they compared the african american athlete to animals. I was suprised because all races could be compared to an animal and they compared a black to a animal which I thought was not cool. I believe that all athletes have the same chance and whoever puts in more effort is the one who will finish on top. Race and skin color in my opinion have no effect on who is better at a sport or anything.
I thought the movie was very interesting. What surprised me was when the students in the classroom had to match their skin color and they were different races. Also, I thought that it was interesting when they talked about countries that were closer to the equator. As they went from Africa to Norway, the skin tones went from dark to light gradually. This video made me think about how race isnt associated with biology.
I felt that the film was very interesting. Over the course of time there have been so many myths and false stereotypes that it is overwhelming. All of these theories have been proven untrue numerous times. The film did not change my assumptions on race. Everybody is almost completely the same genetically. The only true differences between people of different races is just their outside appearances. One thing that surprised me in this film was the thought that since African Americans running track tend to win a lot that they have an extra muscle in their legs. Winning or losing a race has nothing to do with race. If a person wins a race then they win it based on talent. The winner, of whatever race, wins because of their ability and not the outside appearance of a person.
i thought this was a very well thought out and eye opening film. i had my assumptions that races were not so different anyway, but i was interested in what people have thought over the years. the film didnt really answer the questions about why certain "races" did better in certain things, such as the stereotypes of Asians being smart and African Americans being athletic, it was very interesting in the scientific methods that disproved the theories about races being biologically different.
I thought that this film was very interesting. This film did not challenge any of my assumptions about race because I, like most people, understand that race is only skin deep and does not change anything about a person on the inside. Something that really surprised me in the film was that in the 30's all the basketball stars were Jewish. This surprised me because of how professional basketball has changed since then, and now there are almost no Jews in the NBA.
I found the film interesting. For me the areas where it was stated that ability has nothing to do with outward appearance was common sense. Like 2 Quanell I believe the dispersion of skill is not skewed in any specific race's favor. So it just seems silly to think that because some black people seem to dominate sports to assume that all African Americans must be good at sports. I also find it funny that people assume that just because some Asians are smart, all of them must be smart. The thing that surprised me was that the Caucasian males were all just as similar to each other as the Asian girl was to them. Yet when I thought more about how I didn't know their origins I found that it does make sense that people of different race and gender could be just as similar if not more similar to each other as people of the same race and gender.
I agree with Ignacio and what Orange said. I felt this movie was different and very interesting to watch. I already knew that race is only skin color and that everyone in the world is actually the same. We might have came from different areas of the world and have different cultures, religions, and beliefs which make us all different in our own unique ways. I was shocked to hear that Jews were the basketball star players back in the day because now you rarely see Jews in the NBA. i knew that African Americans are no different than Whites and that they are built exactly the same as everyone else. It really is crazy to think that they have an extra bone or muscle in them which makes them faster than us but i can see how people would assume and think that. No, the film did not change any of my assumptions on race. However the Jews playing basketball part suprised me.
This film surprised me because I didn't know there was so much research that went into biological differences between races, nor did I know that falsified facts about these differences assisted the growth of biggotry. I thought there would be some genetic tendancies between races and I did not know that genetics between different races could be so similar. It just goes to show how ignorant portrayals of racial differences can lead to skewed perceptions.
I found the film interesting because of the lack of biological proof that there is such thing as race. However, I found it silly that the film didn't present any sort of explanation for race, like culture. Obviously, not all asians are good at playing string instruments and not all blacks are great at basketball, but when being compared to people that appear physically equal to themselves, people will naturally compete against those around them. Of course it takes hard work and skill, but its completely believable that more than one black person excells at basketball because they are inspired by their counterparts.
The movie was kinda interesting to me. To hear some of the ideas people have about the advantages of some races really shocked me. I dont personally agree with the ideas but I was still taken back by some of them. The video's take on my race did not shock me. Overall I thought that the movie was very informational when it came to understanding how people feel about the ideas of other races. I also thought it gave great background on how all the racial slurs began. Overall I got something out of watching that movie.
I felt that the film did a fine job of exploiting the different stereotypes that are present with race and culture in our society now and in the past. The film did a great job of showing how closer to the equator, the darker skin tone gets on the people around the world. As far as challenging my assumptions on race, it didn't because I know that we are all human beings and no race has an advantage over the other. The most surprising part of the film in my opinion was that when there was no african americans in the basketball league, it was dominated Jewish people.
I thought the film we watched in class today was very interesting. The film really did not challenge any of my assumptions of race because genetically everyone is born the same and their are no advantages or disadvantages between different races. What surprised me in the film was when they said african americans were naturally better at sports. Personally, i believe that is not true, a great athlete is somebody who puts in all of the hard work and effort to become great at what he/she does, not because of your skin color.
I thought this film was interesting because it questioned the stereotypes that exist in today's society. It did not really challenge any of my assumptions on race, because I believe that everyone is different and there is more to a person than their race. I was surprised that fruit flies have more similar DNA than human beings, because humans have such varying appearances and fruit flies do not.
I thought the film was an eye opener. Although the film did not personally change me, I was shocked to find out what so many other people believe in. The film brought up several interesting point, such as African American's natural ability to excel at sports. What surprised me the most from the movie was when they were describing how similar the human race is. Even though we may look alike, the human race's genes are more closely related than the genes of a fruit fly. This fact surprised me the most from the movie because fruit flies look so similar, while the human race look very different.
I thought the film brought up a lot of controversial topics. It didn't necessarily change any of my opinions or assumptions on race but it shed a light on some topics I didn't know about. For instance, I thought that the idea that everyone has basically the same DNA except for maybe one or two different alleles was a very intriguing topic. I also thought that when they brought up that as you move across the world there is no specific boundary where races changes. Instead of there being a specific boundary, the race is mixed and the skin tone gradually changes. I thought that the most surprising fact was that all the students of different races thought that their traits would be dramatically different from another race when it wasn't was pretty interesting.
I thought the film that we watched really opened our eyes to an issue that has been going on for years. The issue that race does not matter and that we should all be treated respectfully the same. Like Sydney said, I also found it interesting how even though we may not look alike, human's genes are more closely related than those genes of fruit flies, which to humans, look exactly alike. I learned a lot about how our skin color doesn't matter, and that people have a lot more in common than they may think. It is definitely important to understand that we are all people and that the color of our skin or the way we look, talk, or feel should not change how we see others and how we see ourselves.
I found this film very interesting. I was suprised at how much science is put into figuring out whether one race is more superior than another. I found it ridiculous that people even care. I also thought their theory about the equator having to do with skin color. The film didnt change any of my assumptions on race.
I found it interesting that the film was focused on the unknown similarities among the human race in general. It used the basis of science, which I found unusual, to illustrate our genetic and physiological commonalities. I liked how there were relatable teenagers narrating the film because it showed how current society is becoming more knowledgable and aware of the vanishing race barriers within human culture.
Personally, I agree with crispy. I mean just to see how different we are from eachother not by race but by genetics is truly amazing. We can all look at eachother and see some differences but to be shown the differences in our DNA is unbelievable. Science has brought a long way from racism and discrimination because it has proven so many stereotypes wrong, allowing groups to be broken down.
The thoughts I have on this film are very strong and sort of emotional. I feel that this is very ridiculous for people to think that blacks have an “extra muscle in” their bodies to make them faster. I think that blacks work just as hard as any other race to be the best at what ever is at task. This film did not change my opinion on race at because this isn’t the first time I have heard things like this said before. No the film did not surprise me at all. People talk like this about Negros all the time and did not surprise that they would in the film also.
I think the film explored almost every aspect of race. I liked how the film purposely put two of the same race in the experiment and when their genes were tested the two people of the same race genes were similiar. The film didn't challenge anything I thought about race, it actually was in agreement with a lot things that I think is true about race. It kind of surprised me how some believe that African Americans have an extra muscle in their leg. I feel like that is true still though, because blacks are most of the time better than whites and maybe it is a biological thing.
I found the video we watched in class interesting. I was surprised how much input science had on the topic at all. The scientist would spend time comparing African Americans to other races. For example they tested different types of DNA. They also looked at sizes of different body parts like forehead, hands, nose, and even joints. I thought some of the comments made by the students/athletes were funny because of some of their beliefs such as one runner thought that Africans Americans had an extra mus cal in their leg and another thought the thicker your skull was the smarter you were. This video really did not change any of my assumption on race.
I honestly didn’t like the film to much. But they did have some interesting points and views about different types of people. I found it interesting how the kids in the science class used that paper with the different skin color to try and match theirs but couldn’t really find the exact skin color. I also thought it was interesting how we as humans have more genies in common with monkeys than one fly from another. But those where the only parts in the film that I thought where interesting and worth watching.
The film was nice. It was very informative. There some things that I learned for example I always thought that there was some genetic differance between the races but the movie said there wasnt. I have learned that we have a lot more in common than we think we do. For there is only one race: the human race.
The film i thought was great. My thoughts on the film is that it may be true that black people have a better chance at sports than the other ethniticities, it really explained the stereotypes and races and how they are. It didnt really challenge my assumptions on my own race. The film didnt suprise me because ive been hearing it for so long that it doesnt effect me anymore.
This video to me seems like the main race that they are focused on are the African American race. I have learned the background of what people really thought about African Americans. They truly believed that blacks had a certain bone in their body that made them better in sports, and this is a main reason why they even considered treating them like they were apart of society because they were good in sports. people also used to compare black African Americans to beastly like animals for example chimps, and gorillas. back in the older times the white race was considered as the superior race, and they were above all the one thing they hated the most was a mixed child. ( child with different races). They felt as if they weren’t worthy enough to be classified as white and they weren’t accepted in any race. This video really had gotten to me because it shows how much each race has came up individually.
The film was very interesting. It shows me how people see other people, and how they feel about themselves. I've always looked past race and judged people not by their skin color but by their personalities and attitudes towards other people. Which is why I think the word "race" doesn't correspond with culture or ethnicity, but more of race of dominance over others.
i liked the film alot. The film didn't change any of my assumptions although there were a few stereotypes that surprised me like the one regarding the "extra muscle" that blacks so called have in in there legs. This surprised me because i really don't think it has anything to do with how our body's are made up i just think your athletic ability is determined by how hard you train and also how long and how much effort you put into things.
38 comments:
This film is a very eye-opening experience. It was interesting and surprising to see how there was a classroom filled with different people that thought they were similar to only those who were of the same skin color and appearance yet they were most similar, genetically, to people that didn't look anything like them. This really puts race into perspective in the fact that it is something that we assign to other people on the way they fit a certain appearance and traits. However, the movie showed us that race has nothing to do with biology, but is in fact the way we perceive someone.
the movie was very interesting. it fit perfectly into the class and the idea that we are in fact much more similar than we think. there really is no differecne geneticly between differect races. everyone is really the same, and should all be treated the same.
I think that this film was pretty annoying. I hate stereotyping and feel as if sometimes the things just happen to be true, it has nothing to do with race,skin tone, nor nationalities. You could be mixed with a ton of things, and yet people would still believe that your dominant race is the reasoning behind you being better than others at certain things. It's either natural, or hard work that's paying off..It has absolutely nothing to do with where you came from or how well your race typically performs in that specific area or talent. However, the film did not shape my opinions of others in any way shape or form.
This film not only showed how different people can be, but also described race in a different light. I agree with "Extra Crispy" in that we as humans establish how people should act or look based on their race. This movie surprised me in that people of the same race could act and look totally different. I truly believe that race is just a means of background and people should not stereotype based on that factor.
my thoughts on this flim are that it is a very good flim to show to prove to kids and students that becuase someone looks different doesnt make them that much diffent than you or me at all. the flim didnt really change my assumptions on race but i did clarify some things i never knew. the main thing from the film that suprised me was when the students were using the skin charts and alot of the kids were in a very close range on the darkness scale.
The film to me brought everything that was stereotyped about to the light, they basically proved that everything that was said is wrong. Like all blacks can dance, not true, im half black and i can't dance :) but the film actually didnt suprise me to be honest.
My thoughts on this film are that it is a great eye-opening experience to show to students. Although, the fact that I am an African American that has to sometimes face these stereotypes and racial issues, seeing this film was just another new flash to me on how ignorant people can be when it comes to your physical features, culture, athletic abilities, and etc. Like Agnus, I also hate stereotyping. Just because my skin color happens to be brown does not mean my lips are supposed to be as big as Jay Z. Not all blacks have big lips, I know this because I sure do not and neither do a lot of other black people that I know or seen. The funny thing is that it can just be possible that a caucasian, asian, or any other nationality has big lips too. Just like the stereotype that Jewish people have big noses,that is also not true, and if you assume that when you see a person with a big nose that there Jewish not only are you stereotyping that person before you actually meet them. Does it ever stumble upon you that what if that person turns out to be christian or catholic how stupid would you feel? I think you would probably feel pretty stupid. Lastly, I truly believe that race is a term that people assign to others on there physical attributes, without truly understanding the word race, because race has absolutely nothing to do with your biology makeup. You might just figure out that someone of a different nationality might be more like you then a person that is the same nationality as you.
I thought the movie put a lot of things into perspective. It's almost strange to think about how alike humans are compared to many other species, yet somehow we're the species that is most critical of each other based on appearance. It's crazy to think that fruit flies have a more different DNA than humans do. For me, this movie opened my eyes to the obscenity of how people criticize and judge one another based on appearance. We are all so similar that no biologist or doctor can pick any human apart and try to come up with a major difference in our genes that would make one race so superior to another. It's almost as if race is just a perception of someone, because there are no concrete differences internally to separate one race from another. Although it's not always easy to see how alike we all are, there is no need to stereotype someone based on looks, race, or skin color.
This vedio was interesting to me, because it showed me how people think about themselfs and it allowed me to think how I thought about myself and my friends, if I only hung with the black kids or the white kids or any oter ethnic group in the school. because of this I feel that the kids in our school are very accepting even though sometimes all the black kids sit at one table. in the movie they explained the way people thought about the blacks in the olympics and how they thought that, the african amaericans were closer to the animal than the human and were geneticaly better built for sports. they also said that in the class that was being monitered that the kids found out that a white kid had more incommon with a latino because of blood type or something more geneticaly or phisicaly advanced. i see that in this movie they mentioned Hitler's Airean race who he believed was better than the rest.
and i ment to finish by saying even though we are all catagorized by skin color and parents and ethninticity that we are all diffrent but when it comes down to it we are all the same we are and will be all the same, what makes us diffrent is who we are personaly not judge by what others think we are.
I thought that the film was very interesting and had many similar ideas that i used to agree with. The example was when the students had to guess who they were most similar too, I would of choose the same people they did. Another example would be about how black runners are faster, I used to agree and make up random excuses as to why. One thing that suprised me was how they compared the african american athlete to animals. I was suprised because all races could be compared to an animal and they compared a black to a animal which I thought was not cool. I believe that all athletes have the same chance and whoever puts in more effort is the one who will finish on top. Race and skin color in my opinion have no effect on who is better at a sport or anything.
I thought the movie was very interesting. What surprised me was when the students in the classroom had to match their skin color and they were different races. Also, I thought that it was interesting when they talked about countries that were closer to the equator. As they went from Africa to Norway, the skin tones went from dark to light gradually. This video made me think about how race isnt associated with biology.
I felt that the film was very interesting. Over the course of time there have been so many myths and false stereotypes that it is overwhelming. All of these theories have been proven untrue numerous times. The film did not change my assumptions on race. Everybody is almost completely the same genetically. The only true differences between people of different races is just their outside appearances. One thing that surprised me in this film was the thought that since African Americans running track tend to win a lot that they have an extra muscle in their legs. Winning or losing a race has nothing to do with race. If a person wins a race then they win it based on talent. The winner, of whatever race, wins because of their ability and not the outside appearance of a person.
i thought this was a very well thought out and eye opening film. i had my assumptions that races were not so different anyway, but i was interested in what people have thought over the years. the film didnt really answer the questions about why certain "races" did better in certain things, such as the stereotypes of Asians being smart and African Americans being athletic, it was very interesting in the scientific methods that disproved the theories about races being biologically different.
I thought that this film was very interesting. This film did not challenge any of my assumptions about race because I, like most people, understand that race is only skin deep and does not change anything about a person on the inside. Something that really surprised me in the film was that in the 30's all the basketball stars were Jewish. This surprised me because of how professional basketball has changed since then, and now there are almost no Jews in the NBA.
I found the film interesting. For me the areas where it was stated that ability has nothing to do with outward appearance was common sense. Like 2 Quanell I believe the dispersion of skill is not skewed in any specific race's favor. So it just seems silly to think that because some black people seem to dominate sports to assume that all African Americans must be good at sports. I also find it funny that people assume that just because some Asians are smart, all of them must be smart. The thing that surprised me was that the Caucasian males were all just as similar to each other as the Asian girl was to them. Yet when I thought more about how I didn't know their origins I found that it does make sense that people of different race and gender could be just as similar if not more similar to each other as people of the same race and gender.
I agree with Ignacio and what Orange said. I felt this movie was different and very interesting to watch. I already knew that race is only skin color and that everyone in the world is actually the same. We might have came from different areas of the world and have different cultures, religions, and beliefs which make us all different in our own unique ways. I was shocked to hear that Jews were the basketball star players back in the day because now you rarely see Jews in the NBA. i knew that African Americans are no different than Whites and that they are built exactly the same as everyone else. It really is crazy to think that they have an extra bone or muscle in them which makes them faster than us but i can see how people would assume and think that. No, the film did not change any of my assumptions on race. However the Jews playing basketball part suprised me.
This film surprised me because I didn't know there was so much research that went into biological differences between races, nor did I know that falsified facts about these differences assisted the growth of biggotry. I thought there would be some genetic tendancies between races and I did not know that genetics between different races could be so similar. It just goes to show how ignorant portrayals of racial differences can lead to skewed perceptions.
I found the film interesting because of the lack of biological proof that there is such thing as race. However, I found it silly that the film didn't present any sort of explanation for race, like culture. Obviously, not all asians are good at playing string instruments and not all blacks are great at basketball, but when being compared to people that appear physically equal to themselves, people will naturally compete against those around them. Of course it takes hard work and skill, but its completely believable that more than one black person excells at basketball because they are inspired by their counterparts.
The movie was kinda interesting to me. To hear some of the ideas people have about the advantages of some races really shocked me. I dont personally agree with the ideas but I was still taken back by some of them. The video's take on my race did not shock me. Overall I thought that the movie was very informational when it came to understanding how people feel about the ideas of other races. I also thought it gave great background on how all the racial slurs began. Overall I got something out of watching that movie.
I felt that the film did a fine job of exploiting the different stereotypes that are present with race and culture in our society now and in the past. The film did a great job of showing how closer to the equator, the darker skin tone gets on the people around the world. As far as challenging my assumptions on race, it didn't because I know that we are all human beings and no race has an advantage over the other. The most surprising part of the film in my opinion was that when there was no african americans in the basketball league, it was dominated Jewish people.
I thought the film we watched in class today was very interesting. The film really did not challenge any of my assumptions of race because genetically everyone is born the same and their are no advantages or disadvantages between different races. What surprised me in the film was when they said african americans were naturally better at sports. Personally, i believe that is not true, a great athlete is somebody who puts in all of the hard work and effort to become great at what he/she does, not because of your skin color.
I thought this film was interesting because it questioned the stereotypes that exist in today's society. It did not really challenge any of my assumptions on race, because I believe that everyone is different and there is more to a person than their race. I was surprised that fruit flies have more similar DNA than human beings, because humans have such varying appearances and fruit flies do not.
I thought the film was an eye opener. Although the film did not personally change me, I was shocked to find out what so many other people believe in. The film brought up several interesting point, such as African American's natural ability to excel at sports. What surprised me the most from the movie was when they were describing how similar the human race is. Even though we may look alike, the human race's genes are more closely related than the genes of a fruit fly. This fact surprised me the most from the movie because fruit flies look so similar, while the human race look very different.
I thought the film brought up a lot of controversial topics. It didn't necessarily change any of my opinions or assumptions on race but it shed a light on some topics I didn't know about. For instance, I thought that the idea that everyone has basically the same DNA except for maybe one or two different alleles was a very intriguing topic. I also thought that when they brought up that as you move across the world there is no specific boundary where races changes. Instead of there being a specific boundary, the race is mixed and the skin tone gradually changes. I thought that the most surprising fact was that all the students of different races thought that their traits would be dramatically different from another race when it wasn't was pretty interesting.
I thought the film that we watched really opened our eyes to an issue that has been going on for years. The issue that race does not matter and that we should all be treated respectfully the same. Like Sydney said, I also found it interesting how even though we may not look alike, human's genes are more closely related than those genes of fruit flies, which to humans, look exactly alike. I learned a lot about how our skin color doesn't matter, and that people have a lot more in common than they may think. It is definitely important to understand that we are all people and that the color of our skin or the way we look, talk, or feel should not change how we see others and how we see ourselves.
I found this film very interesting. I was suprised at how much science is put into figuring out whether one race is more superior than another. I found it ridiculous that people even care. I also thought their theory about the equator having to do with skin color. The film didnt change any of my assumptions on race.
I found it interesting that the film was focused on the unknown similarities among the human race in general. It used the basis of science, which I found unusual, to illustrate our genetic and physiological commonalities. I liked how there were relatable teenagers narrating the film because it showed how current society is becoming more knowledgable and aware of the vanishing race barriers within human culture.
Personally, I agree with crispy. I mean just to see how different we are from eachother not by race but by genetics is truly amazing. We can all look at eachother and see some differences but to be shown the differences in our DNA is unbelievable. Science has brought a long way from racism and discrimination because it has proven so many stereotypes wrong, allowing groups to be broken down.
The thoughts I have on this film are very strong and sort of emotional. I feel that this is very ridiculous for people to think that blacks have an “extra muscle in” their bodies to make them faster. I think that blacks work just as hard as any other race to be the best at what ever is at task. This film did not change my opinion on race at because this isn’t the first time I have heard things like this said before. No the film did not surprise me at all. People talk like this about Negros all the time and did not surprise that they would in the film also.
I think the film explored almost every aspect of race. I liked how the film purposely put two of the same race in the experiment and when their genes were tested the two people of the same race genes were similiar. The film didn't challenge anything I thought about race, it actually was in agreement with a lot things that I think is true about race. It kind of surprised me how some believe that African Americans have an extra muscle in their leg. I feel like that is true still though, because blacks are most of the time better than whites and maybe it is a biological thing.
I found the video we watched in class interesting. I was surprised how much input science had on the topic at all. The scientist would spend time comparing African Americans to other races. For example they tested different types of DNA. They also looked at sizes of different body parts like forehead, hands, nose, and even joints. I thought some of the comments made by the students/athletes were funny because of some of their beliefs such as one runner thought that Africans Americans had an extra mus cal in their leg and another thought the thicker your skull was the smarter you were. This video really did not change any of my assumption on race.
I honestly didn’t like the film to much. But they did have some interesting points and views about different types of people. I found it interesting how the kids in the science class used that paper with the different skin color to try and match theirs but couldn’t really find the exact skin color. I also thought it was interesting how we as humans have more genies in common with monkeys than one fly from another. But those where the only parts in the film that I thought where interesting and worth watching.
The film was nice. It was very informative. There some things that I learned for example I always thought that there was some genetic differance between the races but the movie said there wasnt. I have learned that we have a lot more in common than we think we do. For there is only one race: the human race.
The film i thought was great. My thoughts on the film is that it may be true that black people have a better chance at sports than the other ethniticities, it really explained the stereotypes and races and how they are. It didnt really challenge my assumptions on my own race. The film didnt suprise me because ive been hearing it for so long that it doesnt effect me anymore.
This video to me seems like the main race that they are focused on are the African American race. I have learned the background of what people really thought about African Americans. They truly believed that blacks had a certain bone in their body that made them better in sports, and this is a main reason why they even considered treating them like they were apart of society because they were good in sports. people also used to compare black African Americans to beastly like animals for example chimps, and gorillas. back in the older times the white race was considered as the superior race, and they were above all the one thing they hated the most was a mixed child. ( child with different races). They felt as if they weren’t worthy enough to be classified as white and they weren’t accepted in any race. This video really had gotten to me because it shows how much each race has came up individually.
The film was very interesting. It shows me how people see other people, and how they feel about themselves. I've always looked past race and judged people not by their skin color but by their personalities and attitudes towards other people. Which is why I think the word "race" doesn't correspond with culture or ethnicity, but more of race of dominance over others.
i liked the film alot. The film didn't change any of my assumptions although there were a few stereotypes that surprised me like the one regarding the "extra muscle" that blacks so called have in in there legs. This surprised me because i really don't think it has anything to do with how our body's are made up i just think your athletic ability is determined by how hard you train and also how long and how much effort you put into things.
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