You know how we just LOOOOVE to have these kinds of conversations around here

I like them because they always inspire lots of discussion, and also, as I’ve said before, I think we need to keep having these discussions, deconstructing social constructs, ripping them apart, smashing them into smithereens, instead of sweeping them aside as we tend to do, when it comes to matters of race and skin color.

Previous posts I’ve made have centered on the perceived disadvantages of being the so-called “other;” however, the below documentary tackles the matter from an opposing POV. The UK’s Channel 4 presents Geneticist Aarathi Prasad, who considers the theory that mixed-race humans are blessed with innate genetic advantages. So, we’re talking a more scientific approach to the matter than a social one, which makes this more interesting to watch.

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.

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 apparently 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?

Watch the 45-minute long documentary below: