I belive race still matters because we see anybody thats differnet from us as "unknown", and as humans we go back to our cavemen instincs, of fearing the unknown. so we try to simplify them. to make them as easily understood as possible. therefore putting races into catagories. White people can't dance, black people live in the ghetto, and hispanic people have lots of kids... and as much as we try not to let color matter to us, there are still the catagories that we have been putting people in for years hanging around.
I think race still matters because each race pulls away from each other. Each race sees faults in the other races. The whites blame crimes and violence on blacks and Mexicans. The blacks blame white people for a history of slavery and unfair treatment. Class could have something to do with it as well. One race could view themselves as better contributors to the world and economy and see other races as high school drop outs and living off of tax payers’ money. This, of course, would be seen as arrogant and pompous, to the other races. It’s almost like a circle, no matter what one race does another race will view it as immoral, corrupt, selfish or put their own race above that race.
ok-- andrea thank you. I am still wondering why we seem to fear the "unknown" because you and i have much access to information about the "unknown"-- shouldn't that alleviate our fears and arm us with the necessary information -- which in turn will open the doors for a better understanding?
becky, well said. you are talking about the concept of ethnocentrism. I think what makes this more complex is the mixture of race and economic success.
yes, we do have all the necessary information, and while we feel that we understnd one another, when it comes down to it we still have the history and stories lingering. like you said, we live in a racialized society. we may not be racist, but for generations before race did matter. and if thats what they were taught, and all they knew, thats what they are going to teach their children. each generation modifies it, and becomes a little more understanding. but it's up to us to change what we've been taught, and that takes awhile.
Race still does play a significant part of american culture. America is built on a capitalist society which forces competition. Along with capitalism comes poverty and poverty causes a whole mess load of problems. People will tend to stick to their own when it comes to discussions of who is more adversely affected by the system, and tend to group more towards people of their own cultures, thus spurring small amounts of racism. It wasn't originally the skin color that made people treat people differently, but their cultures. However since race has been such a dominant issue since predjudices were established, it's no longer a culture difference, it's a skin color difference. Without radical changes, race is and will be used to judge, discriminate, and stereotype for a long time in this country.
Race still matters because everyone thinks they're better than somebody else, whether is consciously or unconsciously and when factors like money or skill, put into question a persons ability, they default to race, "he's black so he got that job over me", or "she's white so that's why I got overlooked for the job." It's another way for people to separate themselves and lift themselves to what they think is a higher position.
My opinion why race matter in this century is that people are still ignorace and dont want to educate them selves,this is twenty first century.People use streotype to define others,race is apart of our sociaty and i dont think is going to stop and till one race becomes dominate.For instance media is one fact that promots race if you watch the news 60 percent is based one race.
I think race still matters in the U.S because an opinion on something such as African Americans being slaves or lower class then whites it is hard to change their opinion. Not just African Americans, Hispanics, Asians any other race then white in the U.S is almost some what looked down upon. Even more so now that 9/11 happened middle east people in the U.S are feared b/c of what happened and now people have formed their opinion on them and it will be really hard to change that one.
I agree with Andrea, I think a lot of the reason why race is still an issue today is due to the fact that people do feel different about other people who are different from them. Depending on where you grow up you may be exposed to people of a different race, or not really at all. I know personally comming from a small town where you could count the number of people of a differnt race on one hand, and then moving to Mankato where there are many different races was an eye opener for me.
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I belive race still matters because we see anybody thats differnet from us as "unknown", and as humans we go back to our cavemen instincs, of fearing the unknown. so we try to simplify them. to make them as easily understood as possible. therefore putting races into catagories. White people can't dance, black people live in the ghetto, and hispanic people have lots of kids... and as much as we try not to let color matter to us, there are still the catagories that we have been putting people in for years hanging around.
I think race still matters because each race pulls away from each other. Each race sees faults in the other races. The whites blame crimes and violence on blacks and Mexicans. The blacks blame white people for a history of slavery and unfair treatment. Class could have something to do with it as well. One race could view themselves as better contributors to the world and economy and see other races as high school drop outs and living off of tax payers’ money. This, of course, would be seen as arrogant and pompous, to the other races. It’s almost like a circle, no matter what one race does another race will view it as immoral, corrupt, selfish or put their own race above that race.
ok-- andrea thank you. I am still wondering why we seem to fear the "unknown" because you and i have much access to information about the "unknown"-- shouldn't that alleviate our fears and arm us with the necessary information -- which in turn will open the doors for a better understanding?
becky, well said. you are talking about the concept of ethnocentrism. I think what makes this more complex is the mixture of race and economic success.
yes, we do have all the necessary information, and while we feel that we understnd one another, when it comes down to it we still have the history and stories lingering. like you said, we live in a racialized society. we may not be racist, but for generations before race did matter. and if thats what they were taught, and all they knew, thats what they are going to teach their children. each generation modifies it, and becomes a little more understanding. but it's up to us to change what we've been taught, and that takes awhile.
Race still does play a significant part of american culture. America is built on a capitalist society which forces competition. Along with capitalism comes poverty and poverty causes a whole mess load of problems. People will tend to stick to their own when it comes to discussions of who is more adversely affected by the system, and tend to group more towards people of their own cultures, thus spurring small amounts of racism. It wasn't originally the skin color that made people treat people differently, but their cultures. However since race has been such a dominant issue since predjudices were established, it's no longer a culture difference, it's a skin color difference. Without radical changes, race is and will be used to judge, discriminate, and stereotype for a long time in this country.
Race still matters because everyone thinks they're better than somebody else, whether is consciously or unconsciously and when factors like money or skill, put into question a persons ability, they default to race, "he's black so he got that job over me", or "she's white so that's why I got overlooked for the job." It's another way for people to separate themselves and lift themselves to what they think is a higher position.
My opinion why race matter in this century is that people are still ignorace and dont want to educate them selves,this is twenty first century.People use streotype to define others,race is apart of our sociaty and i dont think is going to stop and till one race becomes dominate.For instance media is one fact that promots race if you watch the news 60 percent is based one race.
I think race still matters in the U.S because an opinion on something such as African Americans being slaves or lower class then whites it is hard to change their opinion. Not just African Americans, Hispanics, Asians any other race then white in the U.S is almost some what looked down upon. Even more so now that 9/11 happened middle east people in the U.S are feared b/c of what happened and now people have formed their opinion on them and it will be really hard to change that one.
I agree with Andrea, I think a lot of the reason why race is still an issue today is due to the fact that people do feel different about other people who are different from them. Depending on where you grow up you may be exposed to people of a different race, or not really at all. I know personally comming from a small town where you could count the number of people of a differnt race on one hand, and then moving to Mankato where there are many different races was an eye opener for me.
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