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I found Friday's discussion

Submitted by Jen on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 1:38am.
I found Friday's discussion to be particularly stimulating, though it left me with a lot of questions: does race really exist? Does defining race really matter? How significant are the genetic differences between race, and what percentage of the population of a race (assuming you could define a set of people as belonging to a certain race) actually exhibit those qualities?

To me, differences between races are born out of our environments; if someone in a poor, urban city environment is less intelligent than someone from a rich neighborhood, it's more likely to be an issue of nurture than nature. We learn from our parents how to learn. Of course I can't back myself up with a specific article, but I do remember my father telling me that there is a direct correlation between the amount of schooling/how well a parent peformed in school and that parent's child's intelligence level.

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