Summary: Listening To Scientist

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I would explain race to someone else as someone’s ethnic background, culture or color of their skin. Listening to scientist give lectures on how we are all the same and we all came from one person out of Africa maybe true, but everyone is not exactly alike. In the video clip students had to tell who they thought they were most similar and different to. Students of a certain race thought they were most similar to a person in the class if they both identified their selves with the same ethnicity. For example in the clip a Caucasian male identified being similar to two other males because they were both white and male and a African American male identified himself as being most similar to one other females because she was African American as well.

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