Tuesday, December 17, 2013


Race in our society is always seeing as an issue among individuals, because our judgmental does not allow us to know people before judging them. While I was watching the video, Race and the power of illusion I noticed that people are being judged based on their skin color. In addition most of them think that race are related to biology, which I agree, because, we are just people. Our genes do determine whether we are black, white, and yellow etc. however, I think the physical appearances determine our race more than the biological does. The fact biology is based on genes and that your genes do not clearly identify this, so we based our assumption on the physical characteristics, because we judge the external part like the skin.

By judging people on their skin tone, we definitely develop racism internally and externally. Believing that one race is better than another race is totally wrong. People in power always exaggerate by determining whether if one is wealthy or poor. Therefore, if even the class one belongs to shapes your racial characteristics.

I found the video interesting because it was discussing the reality many people faced in their daily lives. Its explain how the hierarchy of society rank people regarding their race.

2 comments:

  1. its crazy how everything we do or every move we make we are eventually put into a category. the category here happens to be race. they instill in our head one race is dominant to another. That's not the case we are all equal at the end of the day because we are human. Then again we cant blame nobody but ourselves we are society ans we are what it consists of we make up these things we call norms and values. I could go on for days but i am going to end right here! Nice blog!

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  2. I totally agree with you! Unfortuantely racial inequality exist everywhere in our society. And many times people are not even aware they are being discriminated against, which leads us to misjudge others and vise-versa. Although racial inequality exist within social institutions due to norms, beliefs, and culture it is not impossible to spot it or do something about it.

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