Different Races

This week in sociology, we learned the true meaning of race. When you first meet someone, your first instinct is to figure out what type of race they are and we assume we're accurate 90% of the time. In class, we were instructed to categorize different people on the internet to whichever race we thought came to mind. When our class was finished, we actually got to click on each individual to see if we guessed correctly. As a class, we got possibly one right out of all the different categories. Whatever face appeared on the screen had the opposite background or something completely different than what we put the individual under. All we assume when we see someone is the color of their their skin such as: black, white, asian, or hispanic. This truly made me realize, you can't judge a book by its cover. People come from different parts of the world and our society has created categories that has divided everyone apart. We're humans and essentially all alike. But to have such thing as race really separates many of us that creates diversity but racial issues at the same time.