this really is a serious question.?

Question

so i was watching Law and Order SVU a while ago and since we are learning about race and ethnicity it made me think of it.

there is a boy sitting next to the detective.

The boy is part of a white supremicist group and the detective is african american.

so the boy says something like well at least i didn't draw the short end of the genetic stick and the detective says its been proven there is no genetic difference in races. your heads been filled with crap since you were born.

so was the boy right? its there a difference in genetics? or was the detective right? is there not?

no judging on what was said i just want an answer to the question.

I don't care what else genes decide just if they determine skin color or if the color of your skin is only skin deep.

Answer 1

The detective was right.

There are no sub-species of humans. The idea of race implies that these differences (which are actually a result of enviromental adaptations) are somehow genetically different species. That isn't true. You won't find a credible study saying otherwise.

Added: Sickle cell is a mutation in blood cells that came about in Africans as their body's way to protect them from malaria. It is seen in descendants of Africans because that mutation was adapted and passed down. In Africa, malaria was an epidemic and that was the body's way of responding. Like I said, environmental...

On a side note: shows like Law and Order SVU usually try to get everything down to a sceintific T, so you should have known that the detective was right. LOL.

Answer 2

There's no real way to tell, as Eugenics/Racial Genetics pretty much went out the window after Hitler fell. Supposedly they did a study a long time ago that proved no difference existed, but they haven't allowed any credible research since, and they shut up anyone who might have any evidence otherwise. I mean come on, does anyone really believe that Dr. Watson had a senile lapse like he tried to claim when he backpedalled?

Until people stop trying to use science as a "feel good" mechanism, they have no right to say that there's no difference between the races. We simply don't have enough evidence to know as of yet, as racial equality simply became a social doctrine, and people are determined to automatically throw out any new possible research.

Answer 3

Don't take anything you see/hear on television to class with you. They have a agenda to push. Nothing even close to reality in a television show.
Are there differences in races you ask, While researching for a cure for AIDS they stumbled across the fact that those with less bred out northern European DNA were nearly immune to AIDS/HIV. Difference there.
Only one race can contact Sickle Cell Anemia. Difference there.
Between African descendants and European descendants you will find different muscle structure, Most notably in the legs. Difference there.
Yes Virginia, There IS a difference. I can't go into all of them here or this account would be deleted because no one likes to hear the truth.

Answer 4

I think there are genetic differences present.

Genes play a large role in height, health, etc.

For instance, the Mayan Indians in the Yucatan are considerably shorter than other habitants of Mexico and Belize. In some parts of Africa, the Pygmys are much shorter that the Ethopians of that same continent.

As Ashkenazi Jews and Africans are more prone to Sickle Cell Anemia, White and Asian women are more at risk for Osteoperosis.

People have confused the meaning of genetics to mean intelligence, mental capability, etc. It is merely the "features" or inheritance. The physically and physiological things that create a human being.

These features are race based as kinky hair is to blacks or black hair or almond shaped eyes are to Asians. The mixture of races could create a morphed result (ie. wavy hair, tan skin, hazel eyes, you name it!)

Answer 5

People are different genetically speaking. For example look at the distinct variations in DNA, and different colored hair, features etc. All genetic. But being a hateful, narrow minded bigot?? You have to have that bred into you. How many babies, 2 year olds etc. hate people because of race, religion etc.? My answer would be none. That doesn't take place until the hateful people who raise the children instill their views. And like laughter and happiness breed the same so does hate.

Answer 6

I think that's the most time anyone has said or typed some form of the word serious in a paragraph. I seriously think you deserve an award.

Answer 7

The detective was right. There is no difference in genetics. We are who we are.

Answer 8

I think it goes back to that IQ debate. However, mine is 135. I think it is because of the school my parents sent me too. There is no research at this time that has been able to definitively prove the IQ theory - not one has been able to fully account for social/nurture environment differences. It is horse poo.

Answer 9

The detective was correct.

As I've said before-

Race is a valid social concept. But, as a scientific classification, it only applies to other species. To suggest otherwise is to be of the opinion that the Homo-sapien species can be divided into sub-species, which it cannot. The false logic of race as a taxonomic concept was introduced for the sole purpose of division- to create hatred (i.e. so called "racism") between people who actually differ more from those within their own imaginary biological races than they do from those of others.

Translation- We can divide ourselves according to culture, nationality, etc... and group these differences together according to "race". This is a logical concept. In other words, it's within the nature of logic to refer to different cultures, nationalities, etc... as different races.

However, biologically speaking, to group people together according to race is the same as saying that there are sub-species of humans. (But there aren't enough biological differences between the so-called races to consider them separate and readily distinguishable races. If the opposite was true then there would, in fact, exist sub-species of the Homo-sapien. NOTICE that I said, "...aren't ENOUGH differences." Only an idiot would claim that there aren't ANY differences between people. However, as I said, there aren't ENOUGH differences to determine that there are sub-species of humans. There are genetic differences between Calico and Tabby cats, for example; but that doesn't change the fact that Calicoes and Tabbies are NOT sub-species of the Felis-catus. Understand my point?)

The idea of biological races was introduced for the purpose of division. I don't know how else to word that other than to say that people wanted us to embrace the idea of biological race so that we would buy into the fallacy of racial superiority and inferiority.

Answer 10

No one really believes that blacks are genetically inferior to anybody. That's what I think. Deep down inside people realize that racist propaganda (& atheism) and greed is behind most of the anti-black clap trap about "genetic inferiority".