While looking over this section of chapter 4, A couple of things stood out to me about understanding Diversity: describing our differences. The two things that stood out to me about this section was race and ethnicity. Race is a group of people with a common history, nationality or geographical location, as well as genetically transmitted physical attributes. Race is something that we all have in common. The book stated that “ A person’s racial classification was historically based on visible physiological attributes-phenotypes-which include skin color, body type, hair color and texture and facial attributes(Beebe, Redmond 87 ). Race can have their positive and negative attributes when it comes to certain people. Ethnicity is defined as a
