"Race & Ethnicity"

The research video "Power of illusion"  and chapter 10 goes together very well. Chapter 10 gives us the details about race and ethnicity. Since the racism is one of the major issues in united states i liked reading this chapter.also the video mingled with the chapter so well, the video explains the ideas and the thought process further by providing us the research about race and biological factors. it is still true a lot of people do judge people just by their looks. in my own personal experience when i go out a lot of people from different culture and races assume that i might be from the same place as they are just because i fit in their description of that particular race. 

In early times most of the scientists and researchers did the research of pseudo-science and they said that the race is biological factor which in reality is not. they basically focussed on the phenotype and never actually rugged deeper into the genetics. Race is not based on biology its rather an ascribed idea which is given to people of different race by society, when we say society it actually means that this idea was provided by the men in power meaning white men, the idea around race is totally socially constructed. Back in 1920s when a black American athlete won the Olympics scientist started to find a gene that is inherited because of the race.  The geneticist said in the video that we can't isolate a gene for athletic performance or intelligence. In the video they performed an experiment with students of different races, all of the students assumed that they will be more likely similar to the person who belongs to the same race group, but when the DNA result came up their hypothesis turned out to be false. We attached meanings of assumptions with the skin color which is absolutely an absurd idea.

No disease or trait is in the of any particular race group. As humans our DNA is 99.9% similar to one another doesn't matter what race or ethnicity group you belong to. The article i read goes with the research video and chapter very well. "Hispanic dropout mystery", in that article author mostly talked about the dropout percentage of students from schools, the rate of hispanic students are comparatively much higher than the other race group. 30% of the dropouts are hispanic this number is almost twice as high as other race groups. the author talked about many different ideas about why hispanic students do that. main prominent reason are the language issue, unemployment ( students have to support their families because they are not rich and can't just stay focused to studies), or sometimes because of the background hispanic people belong too since most of the hispanic immigrants are working class they don't give enough time to their children. i believe society plays an important role for those students who are dropouts or falls back because we tend to behave like what we have been told if people are keep telling someone that you are not worthy or your are not capable of doing something, this message will be fed into this person's mind, specially when you start feeding all of the negatives into an immature brain. 

Our society is shaped around the stereotype. People have the tendency to label anyone easily thats why we classified people into different race/ethnicity groups as well as social class.  Racism has always been around it just changes its faces sometimes otherwise it never disappeared.