Race In Today's Society
In today’s society the understanding of race is perplexed. People's interpretation of race is now observed by the own individual opinion. For example, if that individual sees themselves as the superior race their perceptive will be very much different than someone else that would consider themselves above them. Some individuals may consider themselves in a higher class based on wealth alone, while another individual would base their statues of race on their religious background. With so many differentiations on how our society views race no wonder race plays such a control issue in American beliefs. “Race is a socially constructed concept.” (Schaefer, 2014, p. 9).
America is the only nation where race seems to be so important because we apply …show more content…
Similar to race, racial identity can be fluid. How the individual distinguishes their racial identity can change with familiarity and moment, and not simply for those who are interracial. These changes in racial identity can result in classifications that our society, which persists on the stringency of race, has not even yet described. In a society where being white (regardless of one’s socioeconomic class background or other disadvantages) entails living a life with white skin advantages — such as being presumed protected, competent and noncriminal — whites who begin to encounter prejudice because of their close relationship with someone of the opposite race, or who repeatedly see their loved ones fall victim to racial discrimination, may start to no longer feel white. After all, their lived reality does not support the social meaning of their whiteness.
That all said, unlike race and racial identity, the social, political and economic meanings of race, or rather belonging to particular racial groups, have not been graceful. Racial significances for non-European have stayed stationary. For no group has this experience been factual than African-Americans. What many belief as the hopeful outcomes of the Pew Research Center’s data on interracial Americans, with information of a rising interracial population and an growing …show more content…
This means that race was defined simply by viewing people by biologically inherited factors. (I.e. DNA) Obviously DNA is a small portion of what people consider to be a racial distinction. Biological factors are scientific. This also means that they will never change. Blacks would be considered black in all parts of world as would whites. However, this is not the case. “A person who could be categorized as black in the United States might be considered caucasion in another part of the world such as South Africa or Brazil.” (Onwuachi-Willig, 2015, para. 1). If race remained a scientific/biological construct it would not change based on a person’s view. Traditional views of race hindered the assimilation of underserved groups because race was a factor. By differentiating people by race we inhibit their assimilation into American society. I feel this is true because once people feel threatened by their race they hold onto it. If people assimilate to a society that is so set on race, they themselves give into a race conscious society. If race wasn’t so important, then assimilating into American society would be less of a battle for underserved
America is the only nation where race seems to be so important because we apply …show more content…
Similar to race, racial identity can be fluid. How the individual distinguishes their racial identity can change with familiarity and moment, and not simply for those who are interracial. These changes in racial identity can result in classifications that our society, which persists on the stringency of race, has not even yet described. In a society where being white (regardless of one’s socioeconomic class background or other disadvantages) entails living a life with white skin advantages — such as being presumed protected, competent and noncriminal — whites who begin to encounter prejudice because of their close relationship with someone of the opposite race, or who repeatedly see their loved ones fall victim to racial discrimination, may start to no longer feel white. After all, their lived reality does not support the social meaning of their whiteness.
That all said, unlike race and racial identity, the social, political and economic meanings of race, or rather belonging to particular racial groups, have not been graceful. Racial significances for non-European have stayed stationary. For no group has this experience been factual than African-Americans. What many belief as the hopeful outcomes of the Pew Research Center’s data on interracial Americans, with information of a rising interracial population and an growing …show more content…
This means that race was defined simply by viewing people by biologically inherited factors. (I.e. DNA) Obviously DNA is a small portion of what people consider to be a racial distinction. Biological factors are scientific. This also means that they will never change. Blacks would be considered black in all parts of world as would whites. However, this is not the case. “A person who could be categorized as black in the United States might be considered caucasion in another part of the world such as South Africa or Brazil.” (Onwuachi-Willig, 2015, para. 1). If race remained a scientific/biological construct it would not change based on a person’s view. Traditional views of race hindered the assimilation of underserved groups because race was a factor. By differentiating people by race we inhibit their assimilation into American society. I feel this is true because once people feel threatened by their race they hold onto it. If people assimilate to a society that is so set on race, they themselves give into a race conscious society. If race wasn’t so important, then assimilating into American society would be less of a battle for underserved