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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by ethnicity, a socially

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defined category of people that can be based on race or religion or language or [woman soldier saluting the US flag]

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nationality or customs or region or heck, well maybe even one's favorite cookie

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why not right? All right research shows that ethnicity is a factor

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associated with the incidence of schizophrenia which ethnic group is

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diagnosed with schizophrenia three times as often as Caucasians and here your

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potential answers..... In countless studies it appears that

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minority groups including Hispanics and blacks within the United States are far [Bar chart for most likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia]

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more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia why well here a few ideas

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first the nurture approach it could be that the stresses of being an ethnic

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minority contribute to a higher chance of developing the disease similarly it

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could be that since these ethnic groups are also more likely to live in poverty

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or experience other social or economic inequalities that it's actually these

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factors and not their biological ethnicities makes the difference

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conversely there's the nature approach that there are genetic and biological [nurture approach definition]

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factors in play that contribute to this fact another interesting thing to note

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is that the way in which a person expresses the symptoms of their disease [girl discussing symptoms to doctor]

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is largely affected by their cultural background one ethnicity may present

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depression as sadness while another may appear angry just looking at our map

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here we can see how complex and overwhelming the issue really is but one

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thing that isn't complex however is the answer seeing as how we sort of spoiled

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it right at the beginning african-americans and Latinos are three [Man appears holding a tablet device]

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times as likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia than Caucasians, we knew

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that C is for cookie and apparently S is for schizophrenia we don't quite [Cookie monster holding cookies and muppet appears]

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remember that muppet...

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