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‘One-drop rule’ appears to persist for biracial individuals: People consistently view biracials as members of their lower-status parent group

December 9, 2010 by

The centuries-old "one-drop rule" assigning minority status to mixed-race individuals appears to live on in our modern-day perception and categorization of people like Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, and Halle Berry. So say psychologists who've found that we still tend to see biracials not as equal members of both parent groups, but as belonging more to their minority parent group.

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