Ethnicity Race and Racism Research Project.
Rough Draft
“ An ethnic group is a group that has been incorporated into a state through conquest or migration, that maintains distinctive cultural and linguistic traditions, and that has a sense of a separate, shared, and age-old identity”. (208, Harris). Essentially, its where your from, not like where you were born but where your grandparents were born. I call my self an Irish American because my Great grandparents are from there, just like if you’re Hispanic your rootes can be tied back to Spain at some point. However the concept of race is something that we created and it is not real, Harris defines biological races as etic populations which has several genes that come together with distinctive …show more content…
I live currently and grew up in Coronado, CA. I feel like race was on of the very first things that I learned as a child. There are people of a different color than you. It’s a very simple proposition and a very simple idea how people interpret it is misguided. I would say that before I even attended my first day of school I understood race but maybe not in any sense that I would later in life. Coronado is a very small avluent community right next to downtown. If I could say this in the nicest way Coronado is very white. I would say that the demographics of Coronado would be like 70 or 80 percent white. People in Coronado live in a bubble, a very small rich and white bubble. When I went to School for the first day all my friends were white and were children of rich or lucky parents. I never really thought about it or realized or made anything out of any African American or Hispanic friends it was normal to me I never thought about it. I understood that there was other races I just never understood Racism or ideas about other races, I was a young kid. But when I first saw racism and conceptions and people for the first time it really opened my eyes. Playing youth football for the first time just changed my whole perspective on race and people. It sounds cliché but there was major racial divide. Being my whole school was white you would guess my …show more content…
Yet, there are some assumptions that are smart and that are relevant to today’s society but making one just on race is wrong.. There are more African Americans right now in jail and prison then there all the slaves that came over from Africa how many are innocent how many were arrested by a racist cop. It’s a fact and its scary, society needs to change we need to stop being racist, we have come a very long way since slavery and even the 1960’s but we need to take the final step and I wonder if that will every be possible. But that’s Just my opinion and overall I want things to change and in my closing statement about really learning about race I would like to say that I hope this world changes and one day we see only one color. Race is everywhere its not biological and there is no basis but its everywhere how you perceive it is your
Rough Draft
“ An ethnic group is a group that has been incorporated into a state through conquest or migration, that maintains distinctive cultural and linguistic traditions, and that has a sense of a separate, shared, and age-old identity”. (208, Harris). Essentially, its where your from, not like where you were born but where your grandparents were born. I call my self an Irish American because my Great grandparents are from there, just like if you’re Hispanic your rootes can be tied back to Spain at some point. However the concept of race is something that we created and it is not real, Harris defines biological races as etic populations which has several genes that come together with distinctive …show more content…
I live currently and grew up in Coronado, CA. I feel like race was on of the very first things that I learned as a child. There are people of a different color than you. It’s a very simple proposition and a very simple idea how people interpret it is misguided. I would say that before I even attended my first day of school I understood race but maybe not in any sense that I would later in life. Coronado is a very small avluent community right next to downtown. If I could say this in the nicest way Coronado is very white. I would say that the demographics of Coronado would be like 70 or 80 percent white. People in Coronado live in a bubble, a very small rich and white bubble. When I went to School for the first day all my friends were white and were children of rich or lucky parents. I never really thought about it or realized or made anything out of any African American or Hispanic friends it was normal to me I never thought about it. I understood that there was other races I just never understood Racism or ideas about other races, I was a young kid. But when I first saw racism and conceptions and people for the first time it really opened my eyes. Playing youth football for the first time just changed my whole perspective on race and people. It sounds cliché but there was major racial divide. Being my whole school was white you would guess my …show more content…
Yet, there are some assumptions that are smart and that are relevant to today’s society but making one just on race is wrong.. There are more African Americans right now in jail and prison then there all the slaves that came over from Africa how many are innocent how many were arrested by a racist cop. It’s a fact and its scary, society needs to change we need to stop being racist, we have come a very long way since slavery and even the 1960’s but we need to take the final step and I wonder if that will every be possible. But that’s Just my opinion and overall I want things to change and in my closing statement about really learning about race I would like to say that I hope this world changes and one day we see only one color. Race is everywhere its not biological and there is no basis but its everywhere how you perceive it is your