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This video was a very interesting and informative video. It was on the way in which people of different races are actually not that different from people in other races. The point of this video is to show people that, theur DNA might not match who they think. This is a thought that even though we have different types of skin color and other differences were actually similar at the same time. It also laid to rest a few myths about certain races that are nto true. Such as the reason why black people are such fast runners and good athletes is because they have bigger mucules than white people. They do not have bigger or even more muscles than white people do. It's just for some reason they seem to be faster runners and better athletes.They back up their argument through the school experiment. Kids tested their DNA and the resluts were astonishing. A white male thought that he would be most similar to another white male of American decent. Well, when they did the test and looked for better matches he actually matched the DNA of three males from three different decent. So this proves that just your skin color or your nationality is a certain counrty does not mean that you will have matching DNA with a different person with those characteristics. Jesse Owns was a great runner and stole of the show at the 1936 Olympics. It was ibn Germany and Hitler was watching most of the events. He was outraged when he saw a black male beating out all of the white athletes. From this point on African Americans were thought to have better stucture of their bodies which allowed for faster running and higher jumping. Well researchers have disected a black males body and that thought is totally unture. Jesse Ownes was just a freak of nature that was before his time. If he raced now I believe that he would not have been looked that sam wasy in which he was. He would have beeter competeion and he would not blow everyone out the gates like he did.There are two questions that I qould liked dicussed the first is even though we now know blacks do not have an advatange in their body structures why is it that blacks tend to be better athletes? You can not deny that their are a lot more professional athletes that are black as opposed to who are white. Is it luck of the draw or heritage becuase I love sports but have always wondered my I am wathcing so many blacks players and not as many white players plaing. My second questions is, if there are some many DNA similarities from blacks and whites why are there still the raced ralated problems in the United States? Why is it when i go to play basketball at the rec center the blacks are playing together and the whites are playing on seperate courts by themselves? I think that there will always be reace related problems in the United States i just can get why we have to hold blacks on a lower standard of living. they act the same as whites talk and think the sam so why are they thought of as lower standrad.Like I said before I liked the video and gained knowldge on the races that I did not have before. I will admit that I still thought that blacks had bigger and more muscules than whites. Now that I know thats not true I still pose the question why I cant be as good as an athlete as blacks seem to be. I guess I lost the gene lottery you could say.