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By 19, I was a fully-fledged movie actor, but still searching for definition.
當我19歲時，我已經是一個羽翼豐滿的電影演員，但卻仍在尋找定義。
I applied to read anthropology at university.
我在大學里申請攻讀人類學。
Dr. Phyllis Lee gave me my interview, and she asked me, "How would you define race?"
Phyllis Lee博士對我進行了面試，她問我：“你怎樣定義種族？”
Well, I thought I had the answer to that one, and I said, "Skin color."
嗯，我覺得我有答案，然后我說：“膚色。”
"So biology, genetics?" she said.
她繼續問道：“也就是生物學基因上的差異？”
"Because, Thandie, that's not accurate.
“因為，桑迪，膚色并不準確。
Because there's actually more genetic difference between a black Kenyan and a black Ugandan
在一個黑皮膚的肯尼亞人和一個黑皮膚的烏干達人之間存在的基因差異，
than there is between a black Kenyan and, say, a white Norwegian.
實際上超過在一個黑皮膚的肯尼亞人和一個，比如說，白皮膚的挪威人之間的差異。
Because we all stem from Africa. So in Africa, there's been more time to create genetic diversity."
因為我們都起源于非洲。所以在非洲更有可能產生基因多樣性。”
In other words, race has no basis in biological or scientific fact.
換句話說，種族這一說法并沒有生物學或科學基礎。
On the one hand, result. Right? On the other hand, my definition of self just lost a huge chunk of its credibility.
一方面，這是結果。對嗎？另一方面，我對自我的定義則失去了相當大一部分的可信度。
But what was credible, what is biological and scientific fact, is that we all stem from Africa
可以相信的以及生物學和科學事實，就是我們都起源于非洲，
in fact, from a woman called Mitochondrial Eve who lived 160,000 years ago.
實際上，起源于一個叫做線粒體夏娃的女人，她生活在十六萬年前。
And race is an illegitimate concept which our selves have created based on fear and ignorance.
種族是一個不合法的概念，是我們自己基于恐懼和無知創造出來的。
