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Have you ever just sat somewhere and "people watched"? You'll see all sorts of colors, shapes, and sizes of different people. Everyone looks different, but there are some people look similar. As you see the people walk by, you'll notice groups in which the people fit into based on the way they look. Quickly, without even knowing who they are you can get a sense of what race "group" they would fit into. These groups are races, in which people are categorized based on where they are from, their physical characteristics, and family background. Although there are no set ways to decide someone's race, over the years, the idea of a person's race has been categorized based off of those few ways. A lot of times, the major difference you will notice between races is skin color, but does just looking at skin color successfully identify someone's race?

Race is basically a categorization of people mainly determined by their ancestry and what their physical characteristics are. It that been known that people usually separate races from other races based on skin color. This has created major discrimination issues, you can never know someone's actual race without looking more into their background. There are so many ways to differentiate races from each other, but people continue to look at only the physical characteristics. What category would most accurately separate races from other races? Now looking at modern times, it seems most people are using social categories to separate races. However, you cannot successfully tell someone's race or know the real difference between another race just using social categories. Looking further back into races and what makes each race can differentiate races in a more developed manner is most necessary to create a true understanding of race.

The picture shows how diverse people are and how different people from all people are. From the picture only few people are shown. It is used to show the wide variety in people whose races differ. But, when you go further into the different races, you will see the similarities of these races which seem completely different. []

In cases people base other people's race mainly on their physical characteristics. The problem is, as time has gone by all races have mixed and gotten some characteristics of other races. It becomes harder and harder to base someone's race just off how they look since races are mixing more and more. For years it seems skin color has been a big aspect of what your race is. But, several races have similar skin color, it is easier to separate some people based on their race because of their skin color, but not always. People with similar skin color aren't necessarily from the same race, so that is when other physical characteristics come in. Again, most races share similar characteristics. It seems for years, people have been trying to categorize people by their physical characteristics which does not give an accurate understanding of someone's race.

The picture is supposed to describe each race. How can you just differentiate races just by how they look if you don't know anything about the background of each race. If you just look at the way they look of course they seem different. These races look different, but when you look further into bigger categories of race and people look more and more similar. You cannot always base someone's race solely off of their appearance if you don't know more about them. []

However, it seems if your family comes from a place, your family gets the characteristics of the people in that place which carries on to the next generations. So are the characteristics of the people from your family's place what categorizes your race? People from certain places have characteristics of that certain area. Their people from that place follow the guidelines which shows what others from that area would look like. The problem of mixed races come in, the characteristics mix up and make it difficult to see a difference between people. That is why using physical characteristics are difficult to understand the different between people. If your family is from one place and you are from another does that mean you are a different race?

From a stand point of where your ancestry is from is also difficult. Its very possible that the places where people's family comes from changes each generation. Its hard to see far back enough to know where your family originally comes from. However, looking at where your family comes from is probably one of the most accurate ways to tell your race. Usually most of your family will come from one place meaning your family would be the race of the people in the area. If you are a mixed race it means the people in your family come from different places. The issue is when people's family members come from all over the world your race can't possibly be all of those can it? If each generation of your family is from a different place would your race be?

It seems that separating one race from another is quite difficult. It's obvious if you compare races that are completely away from each other in geography, their skin coloring is majorly different, and they speak opposite languages that they are different. But, what happens with the races which are close in geography, have similar skin coloring, and speak the same language. It's obvious over time people from different races have mixed, many people are bilingual, and characteristics we use to try to separate races are not used realistically anymore. It seems now, looking at all the different parts of what makes up a race are important to compare and separate races.

When looking at geography, most people that are categorized in a certain race come from the country where the race is derived from. The tricky part is when their ancestors come from one place, but they come from another. It seems that in geography, people's races are based off of their ancestors and not themselves if they come from another area. When the different generations of families come from several places, how many generations should be looked back upon? When looking at your ancestry, there is a big possibility most of the generations come from the same area, but some may have traveled and moved around.

Most races have their own language. The problem is, people who are Asian don't all speak the same language since they come from different countries. Chinese, Korean, Japanese, etc. are all categorized as Asians, but they don't speak the same language. When you hear people of certain races speaking their language, you can usually know what race they belong to based off of the way they speak and what their language sounds like. Language like race is very diverse, it’s a major factor between differentiating from the different groups of people in one race. Even though different groups of people in different races have different languages, they usually have some sort of thing in common so they sound somewhat similar. Around the world, different countries have been gaining languages from other countries and many people are becoming bilingual making everything more diverse. The more we try to learn about other races the more we can understand them, and language is just the beginning to try to understand them. All though some races intermix and have the same language, most races, and the people who are those race have different languages than the others.

Each line in this picture has a different language. Obviously, you can tell teh dramatic difference between some languages. Although some languages use similar letters, their languages are definatley not alike. Language isn't even the same in each race, because races are made of up lots of groups of people that fit into one big group. []

The [|video] talks about how people immediately judge people based of their race. It talks about how races have been a few groups which people have been grouped into based on what they look like on the outside. At the beginning of the video from 00:36 to 1:03, the video explains how physical characteristics have been the main separation between races. They don't even truly know what their race is, but just by looking at them, people think they know how they will be. The video shows how people are trying to separate races by just how the people in each race look like. Without looking past their physical characteristics, people cannot truly know what race a person actually is. Even just from the title of the video "Races: Not Biological" you can tell that the main idea is how just by looking at someone you can probably correctly identify their race. Race seems to be separated just by the way the people in each race look, but what happens when physical characteristics are taken out? If all people looked the same, people could not categorize them into a race. The video shows how race is just judged on the appearances of people in thinose races. Although there have been studies about the separation of races, people continue to just look at the way they live. The video does go into depth around 1:37 about how the biology that makes up how different races appear also affects their intelligence, sports ability, etc. It's important to look past just the way people look to get a true feeling of how different races differ and how to truly identify one race from another.

What topic of race I would like to learn more about: I would like to go more in depth into just one race, the Asian race. I want to look more into the characteristics of the race, how it originated, and just basically what it means to be Asian. I would mainly like to go further into the stereotypes about Asians and see why Asians are being discriminated based on their characteristics. This would probably be in the "what is race?" section since it is about what the Asian race is.

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