Myself: I am African-American

Person 1: Sub-Saharan African, European, and East Asian

Person 2: I am many different nationalities

Person 3: Caucasian/human/European

Person 4: My race is Black

Person 5: White

How do you know? How do you make that decision?

Myself: I was told very young of what Nationality I am. Later as I became an adult, I took a DNA test along with my mother. My father is African American.

Person 1: Through my family’s DNA

Person 2: I had a DNA test, Sub-Saharan African 79.8%, European 17.7%, East Asian 1.2%.

Person 3: The color of my skin, family up Bringing 

Person 4: My skin tone is considered to be Black.

Person 5: The color of my skin, my father could not really say what ethnicity we are other than what he called Heinz 57 which means a little bit of everything. 

How did you learn what race you are? Can you tell me about some of the early messages you first received about race in general or race in particular?

Myself: When I was younger, people outside of my family were calling me Black boy, light skinned, or Mixed. 

Person 1: Signs posted white only and black only water faucets; people calling you names

Person 2: People saying I was Black and my family was not able to live in certain areas of the city.

Person 3: DNA testing results

Person 4: (A) I watched black people hanging from trees in the state of Texas, on television. (B) My uncle was good enough to work and cook in their restaurants. My uncle and I only could enter through the back door and eat in the back of the restaurant. Oklahoma in 1975, I went to a family funeral and we traveled by bus with twenty family members. When we arrived in Texas, white people refused to get on the bus with us. Upon arrival in Oklahoma, exiting the bus while white people stopped their cars and stared as we got off. Oklahoma was segregated where the Whites lived on one side of town and Black people lived on the other side of the town. 

Person 5: I moved into a middle class area where I was treated differently because I didn’t fall in line with the rest of the ( white) kids in the neighborhood. Up until then the neighborhood I grew up in everyone was the same .  When I moved to the new neighborhood the acted as though they were better than me and my family.

How do you decide what race other people are? Examples?

Myself: I base them off of their skin color, accents, and languages.

Person 1: I decide other peoples race by their skin tone. India’s people have a darker skin and speak a different language, dress in Sari and Kurta dependent on geography region.

Person 2: I describe other people’s race by their skin tone and other facial features. 

Person 3: Ask them, cultural differences, the way they look and act

Person 4: I decide other races by their skin and language they speak. For example, Chinese people have slanted eyes and have a Chinese language.

Person 5: You can’t decide what someone else is , however I would say by someone’s features and  or language/accent can give you general idea .

How do other people decide what race you are? Examples?

Myself: Other people decide what race I am, by looking at my skin color, seeing my dad, and how tall I am. 

Person 1: Other race’s describe me as being Black because of the census race categories on one’s ethnicity.

Person 2: Other races describe my skin tone of being Black.

Person 3: They describe the way I look, act, talk, cook, demeanor

Person 4: Other races, describe my race as Black and the language is primarily English.

Person 5: I would say by the color of my skin as I don’t have an accent , although my ethnicity has been misjudged often.

      Race is a group of people who share characteristics and are deemed significant. Race is socially constructed because, this has to deal with the qualities one or many think of you as. Like having the same skin tone as them and wether you belong to that specific group or not. At the end of the day, this just another way to categorize a person by their physical features. When back in the day for America, if you had all White ancestors then you were White. But if you had one Black ancestor, then you were put into the category of being non-White. 

       Toy stores have more white dolls on their store selves than any other races. Class hierarchy is established early in childhood by limiting access to playing with a more diverse prospective of toys and children. This is normal in America and different societies around the globe. Minority parents have little or no choice but to buy what is on the selves, so there child will not fill left out. Parents of color is starting to demand that the toys industry makes a more diverse line of dolls.

     In my opinion all cultures should be represent by the toy industry because this will lead to greater racial diversity in our society and more neutral respect for one another culture.

Criticism coming from a women is more softer and general when applied. Men criticism is just the opposite very hard. Men have a hard time giving praise to one’s colleagues in response to receiving and critiquing information. 

Men and women have different ways of handling work place situations verbally.

Women take conversations more seriously and some men do a lot of joking around at work, there humor is totally different from both genders.

 

In my opinion the way men and women communicate is difficult because their views and ideas are so far part.

When applying for a job one’s beauty is prejudged as being the best qualified, but they’re not the better candidate for the position. This leads to social inequalities in our society and lower class. 

I believe as we learn and become more aware about beautiful and beauty in our society. How it is used to discriminate against certain groups and gender in our nation. In the future we can make some sufficient changes to humanity. 

“As nations, and as people, we cannot choose the history that we inherit. But we can choose what lessons to draw from it, and use those lessons to chart our own futures” (Barack Obama, 2016)

Many men believe women claiming equality, has resulted in favorable treatment and women can not fully meet the demands of being a soldier. Gender harassment is used to force women and LGBTQ gender back into traditional roles in the military. Women in the military feel that they’re under intense scrutiny at all times from their male counterparts. Resulting in lower performance ratings and overall productiveness. 

Women experience sexual harassment from men making sexual comments, discrimination in promotions and sexual abuse in the military. Gender harassment is more prevalent than sexual harassment in the Military. 

I believe women should be treated equally in the military. There should be no gender discrimination when it come to job performance by women. Equal pay and equal jobs for women, they should take a harder look at becoming a soldier in the military. Women do not have to register for selective service in military, while men need to.

The dream of getting married is shared by multiple cultures and different classes of people around the globe. Brides expecting to have the most lavish wedding they could afford, diamond ring, expensive wedding dress and different venues, engagement party, bridal party, wedding, wedding reception and not to forget the honeymoon. The average wedding cost is thirty thousand dollars, more than some people earn in a year. Weddings are still popular all around the globe.

Today we have the modern day family and blended families. Inter-racial, gay and lesbian families with the dreams of having a Wedding. Some families are selecting smaller intermit wedding ceremonies. Families have changed over the pass fifty years. Women work outside the home to help with the cost of living expenses. Black people are less interested in having White culture wedding ideas. Their weddings are a mixture of Black culture and some White ideas.

In my opinion the test will be, can you stay married? No matter how lavish the wedding ceremonies, are you committed to one another for a lifetime? More marriages in today’s society end in divorce. 

I believe survival changes your circumstances in many different ways and the will to live. 

I believe we need more reforms to the prison system. Providing inmates with more counseling, training programs, and jobs that pay well upon their release from prison. In reality our prison system is failing and their need for reform. Root cause: This is a Society problem caused by inequality within our Country.

The misdiagnosis mental illness among the health of patients that are declared 

insane, but these people are truly sane. Some people are insane convincing the staff of being normal and displaying no abnormal behavior by cooperating. Hospital staff assumed that are schizophrenic or have normal behavior without further analysis. Errors in the diagnosis leads to a life in an institution that you’re labeled insane. 

In my opinion if the medical industry has known the diagnosis and are not always  reliable, this is a problem for the patients that are institutionalize. Drugs that are prescribed by the doctor can make you seem insane. We as a society have a responsibility to these patients to ensure that the diagnosis is correct. 

In my opinion there’s good and bad cops on the Police force. Its hard to weed out the bad cops because there’s a code of silence among cops. No snitch’s. When a bad cop is exposed on videotapes to the public, police are placed on leave with pay depending the outcome. No disciplinary action is placed in the officers record. So they’re able to move from one agency to another.

Acceptable behavior is discussed on the the first day school. Teachers reinforcing social structure when talking to the children. Kindergartens are taught to become a part of the Social Bureaucracy. These kindergartners boot camps are our future work force.

I believe kindergarten to forth grade class sizes should be smaller. To ensure kids are absorbing the material and curriculum. This is essential for teachers to be provided smaller classes.

In society people don’t just talk themselves out loud this is abnormal. When society norms of being normal are violated. They’re labeled as being crazy, weird or insane. I’m a young black male in my twenties going to college and taking early morning classes.

Talking to myself occasionally my behavior might appear irrational when viewed by other people. I consider it rational, when I’m studying for several class exams. No, I didn’t label myself as being weird or crazy because I’m just thinking out loud. There is no need to place labels on normal people.