Interracial marriage and physiology..this is for a paper

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I have been looking all over the net for sources regarding interracial marriage and physiology. I'm supposed to create a paper on this and don't really know where to start because I can't find anything. Only stuff I find is on social or psychological things.

Can anyone PLEASE help.

I mean maybe I can talk about blood mixture or something but I am not finding any sources. The paper has to be 5 pages long only.

Specializes in SICU, MICU, Med/Surg, ER, Private Duty.

difficult topic, i understand where you are coming from.. because sometimes, when it comes to examples like finding a match for bone marrow, blood typing, makes it difficult for ill mixed biracial people, children

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I also would assume that your Prof wanted you to write about recessive genes. It's kind of like how they say when you are adopting a dog that a mutt will usually be much healthier than a pure bred.

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I'm white, my husband is black, my kids are biracial. That's all I can tell ya...

I don't understand the question either...

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maybe you could work in somehow, what thoughtless, if well intentioned, remarks well-meaning people make sometimes.

my parents had several miscarriages and stillbirths before they had me. my father had the typically very fair skin and the very very blue eyes and white blond hair that many people of swedish descent have, while my mom had

dark eyes and olive skin and blue black hair. she was of western european background. i remember when i was little, complete strangers would comment, "how nice it was that you were fortunate enough

to have been given a little blonde baby when you adopted her." huh?:mad:

by that point, after losing so many babies, what i looked like, mattered not one tiny bit.

i guess the point of my musings would be that i suspect that either your prof is interested in making you

(as a class) broaden your minds, dig deeper into genetics, or s/he is just an old fart who remains mired in a decade/century gone by.

this sounds more like a grad level course topic anyway.

my children are biracial. i was in walmart with my daughter a while back and this lady walked up to me, got right in my face and exclaimed "oh, i just have to ask: is she yours?" :uhoh3:

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My children are biracial. I was in Walmart with my daughter a while back and this lady walked up to me, got right in my face and exclaimed "Oh, I just have to ask: IS SHE YOURS?" :uhoh3:

:spbox: What a nimrod.

We have a natural child and an adopted one. Neither of us are blue-eyed blondes, but both our children were when young. I have olive skin and black hair (um, HAD, lol.) I always dreaded people would say things like that to me. Strangely enough, they would always tell me how much the kids looked like me, when my husband is the fairer one. One person could not believe it when I told her the second one was adopted. I wish if people HAD to comment on such things, everyone would get the sort of comments I received, and everyone else would just shut up.:hug:

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I would start with the info presented in ceilingcat's post and expound on that. You should be able to get at least a page out of the definition of "race".

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You dilemma in writing this paper makes me thankful that I am not in school anymore! Good luck to you!

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I had my first day of nursing school on Thursday. NO PAPERS FOR US!!!!

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Specializes in Oncology/Haemetology/HIV.

A big issue to consider is how many people are "sure" that they are only of a certain race.

At this point in history, it would be close to nearly impossible, in most places to find subjects for study that are "pure" bred in any sense of the word - I mean, how many generations do you want to certify to ascertain that one is of a certain race, before allowing an accurate study of physiologic differences.

Beyond places with very segregated populations which physically limited interbreeding (I believe, Iceland or Northern Finland/Norway, or parts of the isolated S.America, S.Africa, or isolated Australia, Mountainous area of Central Asia), most of us can be pretty assured of having intermixing somewhere along the line. And those populations are hard to study, due to various limitations.

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my children are biracial. i was in walmart with my daughter a while back and this lady walked up to me, got right in my face and exclaimed "oh, i just have to ask: is she yours?" :uhoh3:

good friends of ours have been fortunate enough to adopt five multi-racial kids of varying races and she is aa, while he is caucasian. they never fail to get remarks when they go out together as a family -- mostly positive. i can't top the name the six year old's friend gave the family. the united nations family. out of the mouths of babes...

:spbox: what a nimrod.

we have a natural child and an adopted one. neither of us are blue-eyed blondes, but both our children were when young. i have olive skin and black hair (um, had, lol.) i always dreaded people would say things like that to me. strangely enough, they would always tell me how much the kids looked like me, when my husband is the fairer one. one person could not believe it when i told her the second one was adopted. i wish if people had to comment on such things, everyone would get the sort of comments i received, and everyone else would just shut up.:hug:

methinks the gene pool needs more bleach. my mom said once, she wished she had been able to carry a couple of muzzles in her pocket sometimes.

maybe he wants the class to explore their own racial composition. my husband had a student several years ago who had to explore his background for another class and make a family tree from what he discovered. he dug and dug despite extraordinary resistance from his mom. when the facts just didn't add up, he asked each sibling and parent to have their blood typed along with him. he and hs dad got quite a shock!

his mom had had a brief affair and this young man was the end result. john (not his real name!) dscovered he was half caucasian and one quarter aa and one quarter native american. quite a shock

for a nineteen-year-old! he ended up taking a year off and getting to know his new family. it was quite a surprise for them too. his mother and dad ended up divorcing and he mantains his relationship with the man he thought was his father, but has broken contact with his mom.

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good friends of ours have been fortunate enough to adopt five multi-racial kids of varying races and she is aa, while he is caucasian. they never fail to get remarks when they go out together as a family -- mostly positive. i can't top the name the six year old's friend gave the family. the united nations family. out of the mouths of babes...

that is g r e a t !!!!:yeah:

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That is G R E A T !!!!:yeah:

haha, I like that for some reason! That's a name I will call my family.

Oh thank so much everyone for your advice, stories, experiences, and tips...I received an A!!!!!:coollook:

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