{"id":117,"date":"2015-09-30T06:34:14","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T06:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/?p=117"},"modified":"2015-10-03T22:47:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T22:47:50","slug":"bill-nye-race-is-a-human-construct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/2015\/09\/30\/bill-nye-race-is-a-human-construct\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Bill Nye &#8211; Race is a Human Construct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/assets2.bigthink.com\/system\/idea_thumbnails\/57527\/primary\/Bill_Nye_DSLR_(1).png?1420310805\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" \/>Check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/think-tank\/bill-nye-race-is-a-social-construct\">video<\/a> of Bill\u00a0Nye the Science Guy using scientific evidence to argue that &#8220;race&#8221; doesn&#8217;t exist from a biological perspective.\u00a0Nye first\u00a0debunks the myth of purebred dogs by analyzing that canine breeding and evolution has yielded a broad spectrum of physical characteristics but no actual variance in species:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We obsess about whether our dog is a pug-Jack Russell terrier mix with corgi overtones and an oaky finish&#8230;whatever. They\u2019re all dogs, okay? And so the idea of a <strong>purebred is just a human construct.<\/strong> There\u2019s no such thing \u2013 in a sense there\u2019s no such thing as a purebred dog.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He then draws s\u00a0comparison between the idea of dog &#8220;breeds&#8221; and human &#8220;races&#8221;, both\u00a0just\u00a0being constructs:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;If a Papua New Guinean hooks up with a Swedish person all you get is a human. \u00a0There\u2019s no new thing you\u2019re going to get. You just get a human&#8230;<strong>for humankind there\u2019s really no such thing as race.<\/strong> There\u2019s different tribes but not different races. <strong>We\u2019re all one species.<\/strong><\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Any thoughts on\u00a0Nye&#8217;s argument?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this video of Bill\u00a0Nye the Science Guy using scientific evidence to argue that &#8220;race&#8221; doesn&#8217;t exist from a biological perspective.\u00a0Nye first\u00a0debunks the myth of purebred dogs by analyzing that canine breeding and evolution has yielded a broad spectrum of physical characteristics but no actual variance in species: &#8220;We obsess about whether our dog &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/2015\/09\/30\/bill-nye-race-is-a-human-construct\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VIDEO: Bill Nye &#8211; Race is a Human Construct<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[7,48,29,55,63,57,4,16,65,37,13],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-authored-post","category-video","tag-biology","tag-genetics","tag-interracial-relationships","tag-minorities","tag-mixed-race","tag-poc","tag-race","tag-race-myth","tag-racial-identity","tag-social-construct","tag-video","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}