Reflection On Race From A Social Construction

Race from a social construction has been apart of how we class people today. We look at skin color, and ask of peoples family backgrounds to determine what race they are. What we have made is each race seem to be in a different breeding population than the other races, when in reality, and what has been learned in this class is that genetically it does not show what race someone is. I also learned in classes from a long time ago that by looking at a persons facial structure can determine what race they are, I now know after this class that this is not true. What we have learned as a population is who fits into what race based on are very arbitrary. In the past what race determined a lot of things that you could do, which was socially constructed. Even on forms that we need to fill out for census, certain doctors, and some other forms, we are asked what our race is as if it is such a vital part to knowing who we are. I work in a doctors office and on our forms we are required to put on race and ethnicity. Majority of the patients that we see will choose …show more content…
Some people believe that biologically we are all straight. Culturally we also in the past heavily believed that everyone is straight. The more we learn about people we see that those were socially constructed and that there is no biological sign whether someone is heterosexual or homosexual. We also socially put those that are homosexual in a category and have certain features that make them that way. Such as being flamboyant, dressing well “girlish” if you are a male or dressing down “boyish” if you are a girl, and the way you speak. If you fit into one of those categories and do not match up with your masculinity or femininity, then you much be homosexual. Which is so wrong to think and is such a negative social construction that has been made about certain people. This also like race should not matter to anyone else but