Battlestar Galactica Has Impact on UN

Some time ago the Battlestar Galactica crew was invited to the UN as guest speakers (and Whoopi Goldberg?). They came to talk about some of the hot button topics that the show focused on and how it related to the real world (you can see the full conference here). Well it looks like the words of Edward James Olmos had quite an effect on the UN. As of recently the UN has vowed to never use the word "race" as a cultural definition. Instead it may only be used to refer to the only race there is, the human race.

I never thought I'd see the day where a Scifi Syfy original series would actually have an impact on anything outside of the geek community. This really is an incredible story and I give major kudos to the Battlestar Galactica team.