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Is it better to be mixed race?

by Dr Aarathi Prasad
This documentary from the Race: Science's Last Taboo season asks is it a biological advantage to have parents of different ethnic backgrounds? [47m]
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Before 1967, it was illegal in 16 American states for a black person and white person to marry. Right wing groups on both sides of the Atlantic continue to espouse that the mixing of races is destructive and against some kind of natural order.

Aarathi Prasad, a geneticist and mother of a mixed race child, sets out to challenge the ideas of racial purity and examines provocative claims that there are in fact biological advantages to being mixed race.

It's a controversial subject that has aroused much opposition from both ends of the political spectrum, but does greater genetic diversity confer advantages in humans, as seen in the breeding of plants and animals, or are lifestyle and environment the primary influences?

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/is-it-better-to-be-mixed-race/episode-guide/series-1/episode-1
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america,at least has no use for ''mixed'' african multi races. black cops dont recognize you as ''black'' and whites certainly dont want anything to do with you. but they single you out of a crowd for abuse. even non white cops. america is nazism and no one cares.that judge proves mix people arent acknowledged. even though most african american are from an original mix of raxces,blacks and black cops particularly ,work to keep multi race africans downpressed. but the mix person really can see the proper way to behave, its no accident that bob marley and jimi hendrix are quoted. they are multi race people of asiatic native american white and african, they dont see polarity and can talk race without loaded emotions. thats what whites cannot do. talk withouit emotionally charged energy. a mix person can see how to behave. but there are many mixed who are trained to be quiet not speak up. i
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