Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Race It's Who You Are
Race is how we define our cultures and heritages, to set ourselves apart from others. In other words, we are all some kind of race or ethnicity. Race really helps classifying individuals because if this were just a black or white world, then we really wouldn't know who we are and our roots. Many people take pride in their race such as myself for example. I am Nigerian and Jamaican -not African-American. I take so much pride in who I am because my heritage has meaningful history that not many people can say same about. But to contradict this, race is just a label. How you represent yourself is what matters most. Yes, I am black but I am a sophisticated young woman.
The Census Bureau shouldn't allow to check multiply races because then we'll have the people who THINK they are one thing but they really aren't. When it comes to the Census, it should go by what race your father was because our father's are dominant. But if they are not present, then it should be based on our mother's ethnicity.
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Heyy tina so your comment that "Race really helps classifying individuals because if this were just a black or white world, then we really wouldn't know who we are and our roots" I agree with it we would not know where we are from but does it matter where we were from? I mean our grandparents were born somewhere else than our parents and our parents are born somewhere else and we are born in America. Most of us don't care about race because our representation is our attitude, our behavior, our communication skills. That's why I agree with you that how we represent ourselves matters more than race.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on how race is how we define our cultures and heritages. Race does in fact classify us. I take pride in my race too and many others do also. "race is just a label," I like that line. If you want to be known as just that race then you can but you can also do things to represent yourself by classifying yourself on a skill you have or your hobbies. I don't agree that the census allowing you to chose one race and why would you chose your father's race? We already got their last name or most people. People should just be allowed to chose and pick whatever race they want and if its multiple races they want to click that should be allowed.
ReplyDeleteThank you kindly, I understand what you are saying but our fathers are the dominance technically speaking, it alleviates "run-ons". Why state 15 different races, when you can just state what your father is, unless your under certain circumstances. I don't know, it's hard to explain over the internet, I don't want you to misinterpret anything :)
DeleteI completely agree that race helps classify individuals and allows us to establish our roots in this world. However people forget that it is just a label, which is why stereotypes are mostly associated with race. I have to respectfully disagree with your opinion that we shouldn’t be able to check multiple races, as well as the father’s race being dominant. I think this could very easily promote the idea of sexism and if the Census Bureau were to apply this it would anger many feminists across the country. Also, someone of multiple races might look like one specific race, just because those genes were dominant but might actually have more blood of a different race. Looks are deceiving and I think that some multiracial people have a difficult time identifying with just one race.
ReplyDeleteGreat blog post! I appreciate how different your opinions are from mine because it makes it more interesting to respond to. Take care!
I agree with you that race defines our culture and heritage, but I don't think I agree with how you should based upon your father's ethnicity to identify your nationality. For instance, my daughter is half Chinese and half Vietnamese, she can category herself under Asian but I don't think she will be consider as only Vietnamese when she is a combination of both my husband and I's heritage. And I can not agree with you more when you put an example of yourself as Nigerian and Jamaican but not African, because looks can be deceiving. For instance, I am Chinese but whenever I walk around a crowd of Vietnamese people, the elders would often mistaken me as Vietnamese and speak their language to me. So race can show your appearance but not classify your identity.
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