blog #9 Race and Ethnicity

I     I have to say I under estimated the video "Race:The Power of Illusion" just really got my attention because it proves that race isn't a biologic. That we use visuals as in skin and characteristics to define people. While ethnicty is the cultural that is heritage to the people. As chapter 10 states that  "Minority groups may endure discrimination and social disadvantage due to racial or ethnic identity. Racial and ethnic classification systems affect patterns of social interaction and are often used to explain or legitimize social inequality."it is for these reasons that when i saw this movie and the project that was being taken place when the kids would test their D.N.A with other kids in their class and because of race the visuals the saw the thought their D.N.A would be same. When the test results came back it should that the predictions that they had were wrong and they had similartiers with people of different race. Their been times in history where these racial structure draw a minority groups and majority groups in to place. These are people that are suffering from disadvantages because of the lass power they have base about their race. Then this test happens and then its like who can u say is apart of your race when we are all mixed with a bit of each other. Then when we label different ethnicity's for having stigmas related to them things as drop out rates that is stated in the article "The Hispanic Dropout Mystery: A Staggering 30 percent leave school , far more than black or whites. why?" by Susan Headden showed how the dropout rate for latin has been raising. Then this becomes the prejudice and discrimination persist in contemporary social life in America. So after watching the video and reading this chapter and how race and ethnicity has shaped the way we view each other how would it be if we used text to figure who we where the most similar to and it would be based about skin color and visuals.