Race and Racism
Racism Recently I was thinking about why it is that animals with major differences can live in harmony while humans struggle to accept each other even when it is in their best interest. To understand just how unique and strange this behavior is in the animal kingdom, we must first understand what race is. According to Britanicca , in the United States, “...the term race generally refers to a group of people who have in common some visible physical traits, such as skin colour, hair texture, facial features, and eye formation.” While the lines between races is decided by what society views as an important physical difference, such as skin color, most Americans see race as “geographically separated populations”. African Americans are from Africa, Asian Americans are from Asia, and so on. Here is a helpful video that summarizes the differences between race and ethnicity. It wasn’t until my sophomore year of highschool that I was finally informed that race is not a scientific ter