'Some still #struggle with the idea that their #name is too #foreign , too other. Their #stories were often #triggered by major #GlobalEvents , from #wars and #TerroristAttacks to #protest #movements , that propelled them to #reexamine their #names and #embark on a slow, often #painful #journey to #acceptance . Many have #embraced their #monikers and say it’s time to #reclaim what counts as an #American name.'
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2023/common-american-names-changing/
#struggle #name #foreign #stories #triggered #globalevents #wars #terroristattacks #protest #movements #reexamine #names #embark #painful #journey #acceptance #embraced #monikers #reclaim #american #asianmastodon #diasporal #culturalidentity #asian
@gcbias
Some #FoodForThought from the #researchpaper linked above💡💡💡
“Importantly, in my view, the term ‘genetically similar to’ also helps to avoid the assumption of homogeneity within labels; ‘similar to’ does not imply ‘same as’. Similarity-based sample descriptors also move us some way to acknowledging the continuous nature of #geneticvariation across #humangroups in our sample descriptions. I am more genetically similar to some samples than I am to others, but that does not imply that there are natural groupings. Nor do similarity-based labels imply how I, as an individual, might choose to identify or what distribution of environments I might experience. For example, a person may be genetically similar to 1000 #Genomes samples labeled Southern Asian, yet in itself this similarity does not identify them as Southern Asian, whereas stating that a person has ‘Southern Asian #geneticancestry ’ comes much closer to making that linkage in people’s minds.
Working out the #genealogicalhistory of individuals and of groups of people from around the world is a fascinating area of research, but it should not be the day job of the majority of researchers in the field of #humangenetics , who instead need accurate sample descriptors of current day #geneticdiversity that aid clear communication.”
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Adding colour to #discourse with this screenshot attachment and link. Extraordinary future ahead in the field of human genetics and #humanidentity, in general. #TheLancet #AmbroiseWonkam #johnhopkinsuniversity #schoolofmedicine #geneticvariation #geneticmedicine #MckusickNathansInstituteofGeneticMedicine
https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(22)00880-7.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(22)00880-7
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#AfricanGenomeVariationProject
#1000genomesproject #GhanaianGenome #OforiAcquah #geneticcounselling #yemaachibiotech #yemaachi #genomicdataset #Sicklecelldisease #malaria
#SarsCoV2 #researchgate
#geneticdata #geneticdisease #ethnicity #populationdescriptors #racialmakeup #racialclassification #ethnicclassification #nationalacademiesofsciencesengineeringand #biomedicalresearch #rx #med #ethnicorigins #dei #biodiversity #bloodbank #organdonor #geneticlandscapes #socialdeterminantsofhealth #clinicalgenetics #therapeutics #diagnostics #treatments #ancientdna #genealogy #nondarwinian #demography #demographics #polygenics #nationalinstitutesofhealth #nih #medicine #geneticancestor #humangenetics #biomedicine #biomed #racialidentity #ancestralidentity #culturalidentity #crt #criticalracetheory #anthropology #biobank #23andme #familytree #familyheritage #ancestralheritage #commonancestor #biomedical #populationbiology #geobiologie #geobiology #geneticmapping #blooddonor #blooddonation #populationhealth #admixedancestry #phenotype #phenotypingdata #phenotypedata #americanjournalofhumangenetics
#foodforthought #researchpaper #geneticvariation #humangroups #genomes #geneticancestry #genealogicalhistory #humangenetics #GeneticDiversity #discourse #humanidentity #thelancet #ambroisewonkam #johnhopkinsuniversity #schoolofmedicine #geneticmedicine #mckusicknathansinstituteofgeneticmedicine #africangenomevariationproject #1000genomesproject #ghanaiangenome #oforiacquah #geneticcounselling #yemaachibiotech #yemaachi #genomicdataset #Sicklecelldisease #malaria #SarsCoV2 #researchgate #geneticdata #geneticdisease #ethnicity #populationdescriptors #racialmakeup #racialclassification #ethnicclassification #nationalacademiesofsciencesengineeringand #biomedicalresearch #rx #med #ethnicorigins #dei #biodiversity #bloodbank #organdonor #geneticlandscapes #socialdeterminantsofhealth #clinicalgenetics #therapeutics #diagnostics #Treatments #AncientDNA #genealogy #nondarwinian #demography #demographics #polygenics #nationalinstitutesofhealth #nih #medicine #geneticancestor #biomedicine #biomed #RacialIdentity #ancestralidentity #culturalidentity #crt #criticalracetheory #anthropology #biobank #23andme #familytree #familyheritage #ancestralheritage #commonancestor #biomedical #populationbiology #geobiologie #geobiology #geneticmapping #blooddonor #blooddonation #populationhealth #admixedancestry #phenotype #phenotypingdata #phenotypedata #americanjournalofhumangenetics
“The library isn’t a building,” Bruy says. “The library is a community.”
#Ukraine #librarians #library #Librares #PowerOfBooks #CulturalIdentity
#culturalidentity #powerofbooks #librares #library #librarians #Ukraine
Tuesday #column: In which I argue that, yes; sometimes you can tell a book by its cover. At least for as long as the book is a nation and the cover is the culture that which the country produces. #Culturalidentity #writing
Bringing Your Baggage to the Theatre:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2020/05/12/take-your-baggage-to-the-theatre/
#writing #column #culturalidentity