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Health is a topic that scares a lot of people (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show)–We may have universal health care soon, but will we have enough doctors to go around? (Will we have to hire vampires and zombies?)

Researchers have found that adolescents from Latin American and Asian backgrounds experienced more discrimination than their peers from European backgrounds and that the discrimination came not only from other adolescents but from adults as well. The level of discrimination also impacted these teens’ grade-point averages and their health and was associated with depression, distress and lower levels of self-esteem. Bullying by other kids and discrimination by adult teachers even affected their health, probably due to stress.
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For blacks, anyway – The use of “acting white” to scare potentially high-achieving black students away from studying hard and getting high grades is a social phenomenon with deep cultural roots,and acknowledging its power over student achievement is a critical first step for moving forward. Meanwhile, the first study to scientifically test the effect of religion on racial prejudice has found that fundamentalist Christians are more prejudiced against black people than non-religious people.
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Is Obama the wrong color to push through health reform? – People may judge the skin tone of mixed race political candidates according to how much they agree with their politics. If they agree with their views, they will see them as “whiter” than if they don’t. And a YouTube video suggesting that face recognition cameras installed in HP laptops can’t see black faces has had over one million viewers. None of this is good news for our future!
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In a recent news anecdote, Jimmy Carter said that opposition to president Obama is centered in deep-seated, unacknowledged racism. On TV, one can see that the protesters are different from what might be expected: It’s OLDER people who are carrying signs calling him a “Nazi.” When we think about it, most of us are used to seeing young people in this sort of protest, such as the protesters in Iran who claim the recent election was rigged. What’s going on?
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