reflective analysis' essay- Mayra- My Reflections on Race
There's a question I always ask myself, "Is race really important, do we always have to be classifying ourselves and others by the way we look or by the culture we come from? The definition for race in the dictionary is- a division of mankind possessing traits that are transmissible by the descent and sufficient to characterized human type. In reality there is no genetic or biological base that show what race we belong to. Scientist have determine that we are 99.9% identical and we are all Homo Sepians. Why is it then that we treat each other like if one another is better and more powerful than the other? In my opinion race was invented by humans who wanted to be powerful, separate, and segregate society from one another. "Race" has a powerful impact in our society in a terrible and bad way. If it has a bad impact then why is it that society cares so much about what race we belong to? For example African Americans suffer more that two hundred years of slavery and they were always discriminated against. They were not the only ones discriminated, Jews were also a target, six million Jews died in the Holocaust because one person wanted the perfect race, but what is the perfect race? For him being blond and having blue eyes was the "perfect race". Today in the United States there's being discrimination against Latinos and illegal immigrants. For me race means discrimination and putting one another down just because we can't accept we are all equal. "Race" for me is not important because instead of looking at the outside of someone we should see what diamond they hold in there heart. My last reflection is, why can't we all get along, accept that we are all humans, and we are the same? I think that if race didn't exist everybody in the world would be united and the world would be in peace. The reality is that race is always going to be in our lives and we are always going to judge each other by the way we look and the culture we come from. We should start appreciating each other and discovering what diamond we hold in our heart instead of just judging the outside.
There's a question I always ask myself, "Is race really important, do we always have to be classifying ourselves and others by the way we look or by the culture we come from? The definition for race in the dictionary is- a division of mankind possessing traits that are transmissible by the descent and sufficient to characterized human type. In reality there is no genetic or biological base that show what race we belong to. Scientist have determine that we are 99.9% identical and we are all Homo Sepians. Why is it then that we treat each other like if one another is better and more powerful than the other? In my opinion race was invented by humans who wanted to be powerful, separate, and segregate society from one another. "Race" has a powerful impact in our society in a terrible and bad way. If it has a bad impact then why is it that society cares so much about what race we belong to? For example African Americans suffer more that two hundred years of slavery and they were always discriminated against. They were not the only ones discriminated, Jews were also a target, six million Jews died in the Holocaust because one person wanted the perfect race, but what is the perfect race? For him being blond and having blue eyes was the "perfect race". Today in the United States there's being discrimination against Latinos and illegal immigrants. For me race means discrimination and putting one another down just because we can't accept we are all equal. "Race" for me is not important because instead of looking at the outside of someone we should see what diamond they hold in there heart. My last reflection is, why can't we all get along, accept that we are all humans, and we are the same? I think that if race didn't exist everybody in the world would be united and the world would be in peace. The reality is that race is always going to be in our lives and we are always going to judge each other by the way we look and the culture we come from. We should start appreciating each other and discovering what diamond we hold in our heart instead of just judging the outside.
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