As Graves mentioned, the skin color was determined by only six genes which were out of the range between 30, 000 and 40,000. Since the percentage of gene involved in skin color was extremely small, it could not be used to identify people with different color of skin as subspecies or new species. In addition, the race reflects a population in terms of lineage. Therefore, the race is not genetically biological by its definition.
The “whiteness” could neither be defined with biology nor anthropology. According to George Lipsitz, the whiteness is a social identity that took advantage on creating and continuing with wealth, prestige, and opportunity. However, “whiteness” isn’t equivalent with “white people”. The whiteness is a broader meaning of a social identity which represents a prioritized social status …show more content…
Actually, we were more curious on meeting guests with different skin, since we didn’t have much foreign visitors in our town. We covered the triangle trade and discrimination in America which made us felt pity on African Americans and other immigrants. We argued whether the capitalism system made up that inequality or the people did. The readings didn’t challenge my thinking method, but the real life did. After I moved to the U.S, I figured out that people treat others from different race (including Chinese) unequally was not only caused by historical issue, like the slavery, but also by the fighting for limited resource such as wealth and opportunities. In order to protect self-interest, segregation would be a way to keep other races out of sharing these resources. I thought the problem was partially caused by ourselves, as immigrants. Undeniably, criminal rate is higher on some particular races of immigrants than whites, which made this society felt threaten; therefore treated those races unfairly such as discrimination and segregation, in order to keep themselves out of
The “whiteness” could neither be defined with biology nor anthropology. According to George Lipsitz, the whiteness is a social identity that took advantage on creating and continuing with wealth, prestige, and opportunity. However, “whiteness” isn’t equivalent with “white people”. The whiteness is a broader meaning of a social identity which represents a prioritized social status …show more content…
Actually, we were more curious on meeting guests with different skin, since we didn’t have much foreign visitors in our town. We covered the triangle trade and discrimination in America which made us felt pity on African Americans and other immigrants. We argued whether the capitalism system made up that inequality or the people did. The readings didn’t challenge my thinking method, but the real life did. After I moved to the U.S, I figured out that people treat others from different race (including Chinese) unequally was not only caused by historical issue, like the slavery, but also by the fighting for limited resource such as wealth and opportunities. In order to protect self-interest, segregation would be a way to keep other races out of sharing these resources. I thought the problem was partially caused by ourselves, as immigrants. Undeniably, criminal rate is higher on some particular races of immigrants than whites, which made this society felt threaten; therefore treated those races unfairly such as discrimination and segregation, in order to keep themselves out of