Race and Ethnicity / Week 10 / Soongki Kim

Plurality ancestry in each state, ranging from 11.8% (FL) to 43.9 % (ND).      German      American      Mexican      Irish      African      Italian      English      Japanese      Puerto Rican

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States

1.Summary
  A race is a human population that is believed to be distinct in some way from other humans based on real or imagined physical differences. Racial classifications are biologically dividing humans using morphological factors such as skin color and facial features. Ethnicity is associated with race.
Unlike race, ethnicity is usually not allocated externally by other individuals. Ethnography focuses more on the shared past and culture in which groups are perceived. For example, one ethnic group in the United States is a group of Hispanics or Latinos. Races are divided into skin color, face shape, skull profile and size, and hair texture and color. Race was considered almost universally to reflect group differences in moral character and intelligence. Many social scientists have replaced race with the word for self-identification groups based on shared religion, nationality, or culture.

2. What was interesting/What did we learn
  It would be common to classify race as white, black, and yellow depending on the color of the average person's skin.
However, when approached socially, it replaced the word race with the word referring to a group of self-identification based on it by applying a combination of various factors, such as shared religion, nationality, or culture.
In the past, people of color have been discriminated against in American society. Although the treatment of them has improved a little compared to the past, discrimination against groups of completely colored races has not gone away. We should treat them as one person regardless of their skin color.

3. Discussion point
  Current Korean society also has people of various colors like the United States. And more races will be introduced into Korean society in the future by accepting refugees. While it may seem natural not to discriminate against them, can it be said that there is no harm that Koreans suffer from the influx of races?