The history of Jim Crow and slavery enter the body in utero.
It’s sad that this is occurring, how to fix?
You can’t fix it in infants. The bias comes from a fundamental fear of the unknown, different races are more unknown than your own (mostly). As a child grows, other races become less unknown and that “branch” of bias falls off.
With my kids the branch fell off at ~2.5 yrs old.
Um, no.
The title of the relevant paper discussed in your link is “Older but not younger infants associate own-race faces with happy music and other-race faces with sad music” [emphasis mine]
If it were an ‘in utero’ phenomenon, the reverse would be expected–younger, but not older, infants would make the association. (Or, there would be no effect of infant age).
I’ve changed my mind, this has to be a clumsy troll job. Nobody earnestly posts that many articles in support of their arguments that they clearly haven’t read and that directly undermine the claim they’re making. It’s impossible.
Watch as I copy and paste articles I haven’t read about links between epigenetics and racism/slavery. Oh the concrete conclusions there are!!!
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Just bring your hot sister… 
Yeah…shes 16. Nah
Well we always need reserves in case of lion… But I won’t mess with a man’s sister. I know better than that.
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I just like to travel, see new places, meet new people, learn new cultures, eat weird food (as long as it’s not insects).
It’s a stupid fun hike. Beautiful. Depends on the time you’re there but you can catch glimpses of monkeys at the base during the first portion.
Not cool man. They’re people! Just like you and me!
^^^ This I don’t find funny
Yeah, I dont find that funny either. It was a surprised reaction for sure.
Lets not drop levels
Epigenetics is pretty cool stuff. It focuses on what can actually be changed from my understanding
Well now I’m kinda embarrassed. After the pot currency and take the blacks with us line I thought you were making the joke… That’s mb
Edit: not the line from you, just in general
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It’s all cool. I think this thread is making everyone batty actually. I was actually serious about the hike, I was never able to get any good pictures but I saw primates swinging in the trees on the first day before we cleared the primary forest area.
Can you elaborate on how brains differ by race?
So… being a slave stresses you out? Multiply that times a few generations and the epigenetics select for stressed out unhealthy people (sickle cell for example).
Go figure.
The interesting thing about sickle cell is it evolved as a mechanism to
prevent Malaria. You only need one sickle cell gene to be malaria
resistant, but two causes the disease, likely because of the host of other
issues that come with it. Malaria is so prevalent in Africa, it’s not
surprising.
On the other hand, predisposition to hypertension, cardiovascular disease
and diabetes, to me, signals a possible oversecretion/high receptor
affinity for stress hormones that lead to high blood pressure and
hyperglycemia. If you were a slave, like you said, that makes plenty of
sense. Seeing as my great-great grandparents had the potential to be
slaves, we’re not that far removed from those possible epigenetic changes.
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