Race & Ethnicity
Race is a social construct that is not rooted in biology. Even so, our society is still divided and segregated by racial lines. Please think about how racial divisions manifest themselves in our culture. If you had $1 billion dollars, what might you do to help eliminate racial divisions? When it comes to racial divisions, these things should not be taking lightly. Though we have the same basic gentic make-up, we homo-sapiens have many things in common but when it comes to a group of people who share many phyical traits sterotypes and generalizations are made about them creating division amoust the groups. It reminded me of what I read about teenage girls with body image issues. When it came to the girls who were born and rasied in an area that didn't have beauty standards that were based off of celebrities they didn't see have body issues. Once these girls were influenced by the beauty standards and the pressure to fit the standards is when the girls began to dislike their