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Science Magazine Podcast
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How Do People Respond to You?
Around the sixth or seventh grade, children start separating into racial groups in the way that they socialize. As you get older, your brain matures, and you're able to as more abstract concepts. It's a natural thing to connect with people who are having a shared experience. So how can we address this? Races is tat just about individual acts of meanness. Most scientists i meet as a journalists tell me that they're not races. The problem isn't theirs, that it's somlie somewhere else.
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