| MadSci Network: Genetics |
There are a lot of questions there! Let me deal with the most important issue and that is that you are confusing culture with biology. Culture is not biological and not genetic. Culture is what you get from your society. I am 1/2 Polish and 1/2 English, but as I was born and grew up in England, I don't have any Polish culture - I don't speak or read Polish; I don't have Polish pictures in my house or listen to Polish music. Culturally, I'm English. What culture you are is very flexible - even as an adult it is possible to become almost completely of another culture.
When people talk of being 1/2 that or 1/8 this, they are again confusing culture with biology. In particular, they are thinking that race or nationality (English, Indian, Black) is biologically determined. It is not. If you have the opportunity to visit the Caribbean or England or Africa, you will find black people there who are much more different from you than are your white friends at school.
These then are cultural differences and there aren't genes for them. So your other questions really aren't questions, and if they were, the answers would be "no".
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Jan A. Witkowski Ph.D.
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