Tiger Mom Says She’s Queen of the Jungle

She calls herself the “Tiger Mom.” Amy Chua once suggested that Chinese mothers were better than mothers of other cultures.  Now, she has raised the stakes and her husband, Jed Rubenfeld, has joined her this time in a book titled The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in […]

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Racism Makes You Look Older

Apparently, racism is not good for your faith or your health.  Reported on the Forbes  website, “the study, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, found that African American men who reported racial discrimination and had internalized an anti-Black bias had telomeres on an average of 140 base pairs shorter, considered to correlate with 1.4 to […]

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What would you do?: Racism in America

In a sort of “race experiment,” John Quinones and his crew capture the reactions of persons when a person attempts to steal a bicycle from a park.  What is the color of crime?  What race is associated with guilt and innocence?  How does the social construct of race impact the responses of those involved?

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Race Fact #41: Race Morality

What is race morality? Race morality (also known as apartheid) is “to ensure the supremacy of one’s own people.  When you make your own survival your supreme moral value, you are capable of almost anything.” ~ Mr. Peyton, Apartheid in South Africa documentary (1957)

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A Brief History of South African Apartheid (circa 1957)

A documentary film on apartheid in South Africa captures the role of women in its resistance and the challenges of reconciling one’s faith in Christ while maintaining the practice of apartheid.  One person being interviewed said, “One of the mystifying things to me is how anybody who claims to be a Christian can be a […]

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