SOC 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cognitive Dissonance, Ethnocentrism, Gordon Allport
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Strict asian parents & stressed, pressured youth - college process. We differ in terms of skin colour, hair type, eye shape, face shape, stature, etc. People believe that these outward features are linked to internal differences, like cognitive and language and creativity and athletic differences. But these internal characteristics are present in all racial groups. The notion of race is social not biological. Race changes across time and place: what counts as being black in the us doesn"t track what is black in australia, india or africa. Any two unrelated individuals share 99. 9% of their genomes. Vast majority of that 0. 1% difference is non-coding regions of the genome, which is not coded for any specific function. Dna variation within a given group/ race is greater than between groups or races. The variation within the group called white is greater than the variation within the group called black .
