Asians cultural groups

It is against this backdrop that the history of political whiteness took shape and that the fluidity of certain groups racial identities became apparent. The crosscurrents here are terribly complex. The Mexican War, slavery and Emancipation, Reconstruction, Indian wars, anti-Chinese agitation, Pacific expansion, and popular accounts of Pacific, Asian, and African exploration all kept vividly alive the crucial distinction in American political culture dividing white from nonwhite populations, as did... 

It is largely a matter of economic and cultural factors that we know more about pharmacogenetic differences between Caucasian and Asian populations than between these and African populations. Data obtained with African-Americans must be interpreted as having a Caucasian admixture of approximately 30% African populations are not a uniform group and often differ substantially from one another. 

Science is an international enterprise, which the examples in this book make clear. Although communities may differ enormously in their cultures, their religious convictions, their artistic expressions, and their political structures, in the arena of science, the world s diverse human groups are unified. There is no German science, no Asian science, no Hindu science. Bose was Indian, Einstein was German, but the two came together as scientists and predicted a new form of matter— the Bose-Einstein condensate, which was evenmally verified by American scientists. 

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