- Joined
- Jun 27, 2003
I was reading an article in People Magazine where an adopted girl from China had some rare blood disease and needed a marrow donor.
Then they started getting into the whole thing about how it was hard for her to find a match because there are far fewer Asian donors than there are white/hispanic/african-american
but when we were talking about race vs genetics in sociology this past semester it was said that genetically there's little to no difference and that race was a socially created existence...
so why is it that the girl would have a better match in an Asian donor than any other kind????
I'm not trying to get into a racism dicussion, I just was confused... (which is easy to do, I know lol)
Then they started getting into the whole thing about how it was hard for her to find a match because there are far fewer Asian donors than there are white/hispanic/african-american
but when we were talking about race vs genetics in sociology this past semester it was said that genetically there's little to no difference and that race was a socially created existence...
so why is it that the girl would have a better match in an Asian donor than any other kind????
I'm not trying to get into a racism dicussion, I just was confused... (which is easy to do, I know lol)