Race:the power of an illusion: Differences between us

Race the power of an illusion: Differences between us is a movie about the biological factors of race. In the movie we see a group of students that are participating in an experiment to find out what makes one person like another person, genetically, in the different races. When the movie said the students were going to make predictions about who they felt they were going to be the most like, they all said that they were going to be the most like with someone who was of the same skin color as they were. I found this to be a little strange, but when the narrator said, lets see if this is true, I knew that they were going to find out that it did not matter what color your skin was, that did not have any effect on being genetically like someone else. Why is it that the students believe that they would be the same as someone who is the same races they are? I know that this is not true, but it makes me wonder if I thought this way when I was a little kid. i also thought it was interesting that years ago people would measure other's facial features and the size of their skulls to determine who was the same as someone else. I thought it was funny when the students were trying to find out what skin color they were based on the skin test. This was particularly funny because some of the colors were far from a lot of people's skin color. There was one that looked some what orange, I do not know of anyone who is orange, unless if they were to put the wrong shade of make up on. I also did not believe anyone was exactly one color on this skin test. I feel that the students skin were only close to one shade or another. Overall I thought this was a good movie because it shows how we believe just because we look similar to someone does not mean that we are like them, and the color of our skin does not have anything to do with how fast we run or what job we have, all it means is that we do not all look the same.