Monday, October 18, 2010

Are You a Racist?

Many people of varying ethnicities probably wonder this about everyone they meet outside of their background. I have never felt biased against one ethnic group (consciously) because I come from four rather disparate Western European subpopulations whose descendants arrived in America at roughly the same time: The Scottish/Viking pirate clan of Gunn (which over several generations inter-bred with most of the rest of the clans), the English aristocracy, emigrants from the East-German town of Gera (fleeing Osterstein castle I would imagine and the demonic monster fashioned from corpses, rage, and my friend N. Oster), and the Irish, who were often very badly discriminated against by the other groups.


I grew up around many interacting ethnicities co-existing peacefully and I have also taken the “Unconscious Bias” psychological survey which has reported no significant bias (which might be wrong of course if the study itself were scientifically biased). Somewhat trivial differences exist between ethnicities in genetic expression of melanin, lactose processing, muscle fiber arrangements, and apparently which groups had women sleeping with Neanderthals back before recorded history according to one pretty shocking study that came out earlier this year, but mainly we all are the same.

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