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I find social stuff interesting and this has long been true. I've had a few college classes pertinent to that interest, such as Intro to Psychology , Social Psychology and Negotiation and Conflict Management . When I took Intro to Psychology , a required part of the course was we had to participate as subjects in one or two psychology experiments run by grad students. One was about racism and they played a tape of two people talking and switched the labels for the audience as to who was White and who was Black and then asked a bunch of questions trying to see if what we imagined their skin color to be changed our perception. This was explained to us afterwards and a Black guy in the front row said "We could tell by their voices we were being lied to. We knew who was really Black and who was really White by the sound of their voices." There are distinct characteristics to Black voices and I no longer remember the explanation for the physiological differences for that, but...

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