Diversity Experience

During VEISHEA I went to the Race Machine in the Memorial Union and was able to watch RACE-Power of an Illusion. It's interesting how there are very very very very minute genetic differences (far less than 1 percent) between different races, so little that it really doesn't make any difference at all. Amongst animals, we really aren't that genetically diverse at all, since we really haven't been around for that long. The whole idea of race really is a recent invention in the history of man..it wasn't even considered in ancient times, and has been exploited recently for the purpose of slavery. The Race Machine was kind of fun to play with to see how you would look as different races...although I was really sunburnt when I tried it so some of the images were really distorted unfortunately. :(