Part I: Skin Color is an Illusion
Q1. What did Darwin notice about the pattern of skin color around the world? What idea did he reject about skin color?
Q2. What does the NASA map show?
Q3. What happened to skin color as early humans dispersed from the equator? Why?
Q4. What consequences can the migration of people today have because of skin pigmentation?
Q5. Why do you think human societies have given social meanings to differences in skin pigmentation (i.e., why do you think we separate people into "races" based on this factor)?
Part II: The Hunt for General Tso
Q1. How did the Chinese react to fortune cookies? Where are fortune cookies from?
Q2. Lee discusses several different popular Chinese dishes in North America. How do these dishes differ from traditional Chinese cuisine?
Q3. What discrimination did the Chinese face when they came to the US in the nineteenth and early twentieth century?
Q4. Which pattern of group relations (from the unit) do you think the Chinese-American food represents?
Q5. Why does Lee say that Chinese food is like an open source computer program?