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Less fighting, more talking about it!

I have not experienced racism. It’s as flat as that. My whole family are nice people and I have not been exposed to racism. However, I do know quite a bit about it. From the history of how racism came to be to the people who changed it for better and worse. My ethnicity is German because I was born in America and my family has lived here their whole lives too. A long time ago my ancestors came from Prussia, Germany. I enjoy studying other cultures and they are all fascinating. I love to travel and go to new places like Mexico, to learn the language, surf, and simply be immersed in their culture. I used to think that each person can be put into a category and can be defined as a person by where they come from. In reality that is not true and who you REALLY are is defined by what you are in the inside.

Race Is Not Real!

“Race is not a biological trait” says Michael Yudell, co-author of the Huffington Post and associate professor and chair of community health and prevention. It is in fact just a social construct created by people to separate others. If you look at just a person’s DNA you will not see anything that determines their race. This is because we are all the same species, (Homosapiens), and we all have slight differences that makes ourselves unique because of where we live and our choices. And in fact, we are NOT completely different people. This is because the differences we have are less than 6% and that is determined by the places we live in because of the conditions there. And also, our own choices, for example, how you choose to work out that one day and now you have more muscle and less fat. The fact is people should not be defined by ‘race,’ and instead by who they are as a person. So, why is this important you ask? Well, because race is social construct that society has built and puts people into categories and in turn this sprouts racism, and leads to a decline in our society. Don’t YOU think that’s important?

I’m not “white”, I am human.

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Personally, people haven’t been racist to me, but I have heard racist things being said to other people. One example was at gymnastics, when someone said to someone else that they weren’t good at gymnastics because the were black; I didn’t think that what she said could offend anybody, but now I know that a racist comment like that can offend someone much more than a lot of other comments. I have heard a lot more racist comments then I thought I had in the beginning of this project. I now notice stereotypes put on certain races. For example, most people think of Mexicans as drug lords, and rapists because a couple of Mexicans made a bad choice. Really anyone, of any race can do these things, so it really doesn’t make any sense. In conclusion, people shouldn’t be stereotyped, because people of the same race are just as different as people in a different race.

Race is Fake: So Why Hurt So Many?

Race is not scientifically real. We only have different skin tones because of geography. For example, people who live in the snow were normally light skinned and short and meaty because they needed to keep warm, and people who live in the hotter, sunny places, usually have darker skin and are tall and skinny so they have more places to sweat. According to the Huffington Post, “Scientists were fighting over whether race was biologically real or not, so they did an study and the answer was race was not real.” Race is real socially, but not scientifically. So basically race only exists to make people feel bad about their appearance. In conclusion race is by itself is racism because it puts people in categories and makes some people feel more superior than others.

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