We’ve written that adoptive parents?and grandparents? care more. Now it turns out that Biracial parents, compared to their monoracial counterparts, are more likely to go the extra mile in the amount of time and money they spend on their young children.
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Chicago sociologist Walter Benn Michaels thinks the racial divide is REALLY based on money?who has it, and who doesn’t. He says, “We love race?we love identity?because we don’t love class. We love thinking that the differences that divide us are not the differences between those of us who have money and those who don’t but are instead the differences between those of us who are black and those who are white or Asian or Latino or whatever.”
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Despite the fact that many sociologists say there is no such thing as race, many people are looking for their roots. An Indian tribe in California just got some amazing DNA evidence about where they came from. Medical researchers think that there are different races, and that the group you belong to could determine what genetic diseases could affect you.
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Two million people in the US have taken a test that issupposed to reveal whether or not you are prejudiced againstpeople of other races. It’s a five-minute test that you takeover the internet. To take this test,clickhere.
Lucy Wilkins writes in bbcnews.com that the test is beingpromoted in the UK as part of the publicity campaign for theplay “A Patch of Blue,” based on the Sydney Poitier film ofthe same name, in which a blind white woman falls in lovewith a black man.
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