{"id":23733,"date":"2016-09-02T08:48:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T15:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23733"},"modified":"2016-09-02T08:48:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T15:48:54","slug":"friday-fun-six-degrees-of-separation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/02\/friday-fun-six-degrees-of-separation\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fun \u2013 Six Degrees of Separation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Either through the 1993 drama film featuring Will Smith, Donald Sutherland<\/strong>, and Stockard Channing<\/strong> or the play, most of us are familiar with “Six Degrees of Separation”<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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“Six degrees of separation is the theory that everyone and everything is six or fewer steps away … from any other person in the world, so that a chain of "a friend of a friend" statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps. It was originally set out by Frigyes Karinthy in 1929 and popularized in an eponymous 1990 play written by John Guare.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Six_degrees_of_separation<\/a><\/p>\n

But in all honesty, because this deals with DNA<\/em><\/strong> – and not acquaintances – I probably should have titled it “It’s a Small World After All”<\/em><\/strong>.  But then you’d have that annoying song as an earworm the rest of the day.<\/p>\n

So how much DNA do we share with people from other countries and cultures?  And more importantly, how much would our views about foreigners be fundamentally changed if we knew more about our own genetic origins?<\/p>\n

\"PP_DNA-Ancestors_03_Dare\"<\/a>Well, to a lot of people it came as an eye-opening surprise when the Danish travel search engine momondo<\/em><\/strong> produced a mini-documentary promotional film titled “The DNA Journey”<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n