1) In the future, the government genetically engineers babies and pairs adults to have children based on their calculated genetic value, with the goal of creating the healthiest offspring to contribute to society. 2) People considered genetically weak are experimented on, while genetically engineered babies and the genetically strong receive the best opportunities. 3) Sofia, a 20-year-old black woman, believes this unequal system is coming to an end.

1. The Impeccable
Cultural Movement
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By Priscilla Little

2. Welcome to the United States 50 years in the future! Due to the beauty,
athleticism, and intelligence of genetically engineered babies people genuinely
believe that the next step to our evolution as humans is by using this technology
to better our race as a whole. In this society the government calculates your
genetic value and places you with your “mate” to have children with. According
to this government the mate you are paired with is your genetic equal and your
best chance to have the healthiest offspring to contribute to society. Marriage is
only for the genetically paired. Similar races are being closed off in different
sections of the country. Homosexual and interracial marriage is strictly
prohibited. The people considered genetically weak are sent to government
facilities to be experimented on “for the good of our race”. Adults who were
genetically engineered babies and/or the genetically strong in general are offered
the best schooling, given the best jobs/careers, and have a lot of political power.
Sofia is a twenty year old black woman that has grown up in this atmosphere.
She believes that this system is built on inequality is coming to an end.
Perfection is Key

3. At birth you are tested for your genetic
strengths and weaknesses. Pass the test you
are given back to your parents, paired with
your mate, and given a category that will
define what opportunities you are give, or in
most cases withheld from you.
Fail the test (genetically inferior) and you
are put in an orphanage until you are old
enough to be tested on through lab
experiments against your will.
Tested at Birth
Sofia was close to being sent away until they fixed a
miscalculation made on her genetic test.
Genetically engineered
babies are guaranteed
the best from birth and
are usually paired with a
mate that has been
genetically altered as
well.

4. Feminist women who have survived this cultural shock and idealism work
hard to try to change outlooks on inner and outer beauty. One of these
women is actually Sofia’s mother. Sofia’s mother raised her to be aware of
the type of idealism towards beauty but to know very well that this idea is
false. Sofia’s mother would tell her, “A person is so much more than their
looks and to create a human for that sole purpose is wrong.” Below is a
brief video of how the idea of the perfection of looks became an obsession.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j68VtAJWQtA
&oref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fw
atch%3Fv%3Dj68VtAJWQtA&has_verified=1
Feminist Outrage against
Beauty Standards

5. Throughout Sofia’s life she was put into the part of the country reserved for
African Americans. Borders are blocked out with high rise electrical fences.
Recently people of different races have come together to strike the segregation of
people by race. Through the makings of underground tunnels leaders of this
resistance meet and strategize then continually strike and block off borders.
Strike Against the New
Segregation

6. The fight for marriage freedom is on. In all the states each group of race that is in a
lower category have banned together and protest in many different ways and forms
for equal marriage rights. The wealthier category has been strongly opposed towards
this fight since day because if there was marriage equality genetic “mate” pairing
would have no use. People would marry who they want and over time people in
different categories would want to marry others in different categories. Interracial
couples would break the segregation boundaries, gay marriage would bring an
unfathomable amount of people together, and the entire system would eventually fall.
Free Marriage