PBS on Race: the power of an illusion

[theSoulfulMofo]

Just got this link from my aunt... if you're interested, check it out:

www.pbs.org/race

 

[theSoulfulMofo]

I checked it out... pretty interesting stuff...

the original notion of race as a cultural difference rather than physical difference

got stumped with some of those identification quiz... that was a mind-boggling.

 

[meegannie]

I only got six right on the quiz.

 

[80sU2isBest]

How did ya'll do on identify which picure went with which race? I didn't do good at all. Out of them all, I only got 7 right.

 

[anitram]

I got 9 right.

But those pictures are so tiny, half the time I didn't even know if the person was male or female, much less their ethnicity.

 

[theSoulfulMofo]

Uh... explore the whole website...

that was the purpose of the quiz... to show us how our preconceptions of race were wrong and distorted in the first place.

 

[80sU2isBest]

I did explore the whole website. I know what the purpose of the quiz was.

 

[deep]

this is on TV tonite on the west coast at 10pm

i will watch it.