Race and Ethnicity / Week 10 / Lee JaeSeong

The distribution of Native Americans from state to state

Source:https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Sociology/Race_and_Ethnicity#/media/File:Percentage_of_state_populations_identifying_as_black_2012.svg

1.Summary

Race means physical differences in man. Race is biologically classified according to morphological features such as skin color and facial characteristics. Ethnicity is also associated with race, but it is classified according to the social characteristics shared by human beings through nationality, tribe, and religious beliefs.

Georges Couvier, James Cowles Pritchard, Louis Agassiz, Charles Pickering, and Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, explain the biological nature of the human race. There is a view of prejudice in these racial differences. This is called racism. Racism argues that race should be distinguished and treated differently depending on race.

They form a minority to counteract the majority. When these minorities are brought into a majority society, they are discriminated against and may not be easy to integrate in mainstream society. However, it is also racial discrimination to assimilate them into a large group.

As for pollution in the United States, it is said that environmental pollution facilities are distributed in communities of ethnic minorities. Also, until 1967, the United States banned marrying other races. Even if you married another race, you could be imprisoned. These two examples also explain racism and racial stratification.

2. What was interesting/What did we learn

The rate of racial diseases was quite interesting. Aborigines in Africa and the Americas say that diseases such as obesity and diabetes are more dangerous than those in Europe. I thought it would take less of this disease because Europeans in developed countries ate better and moved less. However, the data were different. This is explained as a genetic problem.

3.Discussion Point

In the past, racism was a perception that white people were superior and that yellow, black and Latin were inferior. I think this is because Europe, which had many whites, dominated the world situation. So, if African blacks and Hispanics, or Asians like China and Japan, had dominated the world situation, would racism be different?