See, this is where sociology comes in. I love my field sometimes.
Why does it seem like black men are better athletes than white men? Why are black men overrepresented in sports such as basketball and football, and white men bigger in individual sports like golf or fencing or cycling?
Part of it is class, and part is the social construction of race. Black kids may be subtly pushed into 1) team sports, and 2) sports in general, because, no, they arent smart enough to get into college based on academics, right? (sarcasm). Whereas the rich white kids are encouraged to get into academics, and individual "thinking" sports.
DNA wise, I am more similar to the black woman down the street than I am to my white roommate. There is more differentiation within a "race" than between the races. There are biological differences between sexes with hormones. (And, I piss off a lot of feminists by saying that :-)
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Why does it seem like black men are better athletes than white men? Why are black men overrepresented in sports such as basketball and football, and white men bigger in individual sports like golf or fencing or cycling?
Part of it is class, and part is the social construction of race. Black kids may be subtly pushed into 1) team sports, and 2) sports in general, because, no, they arent smart enough to get into college based on academics, right? (sarcasm). Whereas the rich white kids are encouraged to get into academics, and individual "thinking" sports.
DNA wise, I am more similar to the black woman down the street than I am to my white roommate. There is more differentiation within a "race" than between the races. There are biological differences between sexes with hormones. (And, I piss off a lot of feminists by saying that :-)