I thought our class discussion on Wednesday was very interesting. What classifies race? Is it where you are from, who your parents are, where you were born or how you were raised? I personally believe that race is a social concept, not a biological one. First impressions are generally based on physical appearances, whether they be right or wrong. I am somewhat ethnically ambiguous physically; generally most people think I am some type of Spanish or Middle Eastern ethnicity. However, I am not. Race is the power of illusion, people will believe what they want to believe about themselves and about others. The truth is, we were all derived from the same “race”.
"There is more and more hard genetic evidence that all of humanity has evolved as a single unit, with regional variations, but that's all they are, slight variations," said Templeton. "A race has to be a sharply defined, geographically circumscribed population that represents an isolated or nearly isolated lineage within the species. There's nothing at all like that in humanity.
http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/184.aspx
I think of ethnicity associated more closely with cultural background. Your actions speak louder than your appearance.
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