After a class discussion about race last week, I noticed something about many kids in our class and people in general. Including myself, why are people so hesitant to associate race with the color of skin someone has?
During the discussion, I realized myself along with many others really determine what race someone is by the color of their skin. People tried to say that race was was determined by something else, but after talking about it we found out that it was not really true.
I also find it interesting when people are afraid to call someone black. It is not a bad thing so why are they afraid to say it? I have heard kids trying to be official call black people in Africa African Americans when really they are not American at all and the kid was just trying to say black. We have to realize that being one race or another is not any better than the other and say how we really think races are determined.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
I agree with this, we tried to define race as something too complicated in class. When it comes down to it we associate race with skin color and everything else is its own category. Such as ethnicity, just because you are from one country does not mean that everyone from that country is the same race, it is a different category along with some of the other things that we discussed during class.
ReplyDelete