Tuesday, December 21, 2010

“one-drop rule”

In the U.S., the “one-drop rule” — al­so known as hy­pode­s­cent — dates to a 1662 Vir­gin­ia law on the treat­ment of mixed-race in­di­vid­u­als. The le­gal no­tion of hy­pode­s­cent has been up­held as re­cently as 1985, when a Lou­i­si­ana court ruled that a wom­an with a black great-great-great-great-grandmoth­er could not iden­ti­fy her­self as “white” on her pass­port.





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Sticks appear as “dolls” in hands of chimps

I am truely satisfied when I read this article.

I am a firm believer in stating that, "Any living creature is the same as me in their own life styles."




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