Is race real or just a figure of our social construction? We discussed this question this week in class and I have to admit I had never considered the fact that race is not any different than ethnicity. The fact is, blood is the same no matter what "race" you are. The thing that impacted me the most this week was watching the experiment the high school students conducted with two different skin colored dolls. The majority of the kids (who were all black) chose the white skin colored doll as the "nicer" doll. It was heart breaking to see the little girl look from the white to the black doll and realize she looked more like the not nice doll. I had never known small kids were indirectly taught to think that way.
I think race takes on a whole different meaning at Stevenson. No one really categorizes different races as being nicer. I feel people from different backgrounds really embrace their ethnicity and don't pay attention to racial differences.
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