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You probably first learned about the scientific method in some junior high lab with a bunch of peers who were testing and examining each other as much as they were the stuff steaming in the test tubes. Teens aren’t totally off-base when they’re applying this testing procedure to their social interactions as well as to their lab experiments; in fact, they’re experts at testing, evaluating, and… Continue

Ethnicity makes up an important part of our culture—the “acquired knowledge people use to interpret experience and generate behavior” that James Spradley talks about.

Check out this clip of popular graphic novelist Gene Yang as he talks about ethnic heritage and created identity—two main themes that run through each of this Chinese-American’s award-winning graphic novels.

Gene Yang at America.gov… Continue