Race

I find it really interesting that the idea of race depends on your culture and where you are. For example here, in the United States, race is classifying solely on the color of your skin, but in other places it is based on the exact shade of your skin, or on how much you are of one race or the other. I never really thought about how single sided our society is. How a person can either be white or black; there is no grey region in the middle. Using an example from society today, Barak Obama is just as much black as he is white but society looks at him as being black. It seems like society in the United States follows the theory that if you have one drop of blood of one race then that's what you are. In class when we watched the Racial Draft, although it was in a funny perspective, it really showed how split race is, how different races and ethnicities are fighting to label celebrities with a single race. It's interesting that a person in society today cannot classify themselves as more than one race because society forces their own label on them.