The Influence Of Race On Society

People around the world interact everyday among different races and ethnicities without realizing that we put races into social categories. Sociologist believe that someone’s race is not biologically inherited but rather an idea that a person and a society believe their race to be, which makes race socially inherited. Because of the big influence society has on us, what we experience throughout our lifetime heavily depends on our race and ethnicity.
We go put in society and adapt to the standards and beliefs that society has. One way we get placed into a certain race or ethnic group is based off of our skin color. Because society places us into these racial categories, we see a lot of ethnic and racial inequality. We may not like the group …show more content…
It makes everyone think about what their race really is, and how being placed into certain racial groups could affect the rest of their life. People could also claim their race as something they actually aren’t. For example, I could identify myself as an American Indian during the summer when my skin is really dark and a really white American during the winter when my skin is white as snow. I could also identify my race based off of my ancestor’s race. It is possible to say I belong to multiple races just because my ancestors could be apart of so many different ethnicities and races.
U.S. race relations today are getting worse by the second. If everyone in the U.S. had knowledge about the social concepts, between and within-group variations of race, I think the race relations would be a lot better. People would start claiming themselves as multicultural so they aren’t discriminated against everywhere they go. Society wouldn’t see people as just blacks and whites anymore. If society saw more people in within-group variations, more people in the U.S. would be able to experience more in life and have more resources available to make their lives and potentially the world a better