How has your perception of race changed over time?

Question

How has your perception of race changed over time?

Answer 1

When I was younger, I was all about identity politics and multiculturalism. Now, I'm more of an advocate for the colorblind society. The number of people classified as white is probably going to decline as a percentage of the population. If economic conditions do not improve, there might even be out-migration: I believe perhaps that THIS TIME things are going to get that bad, economically. 100 years into the future, race is going to be a non-issue - maybe even 50 years.

At the same time, almost running against what I just said, I feel that people are MORE racist today than they were 10-15 years ago. I'm hoping it's a subgenerational fluke that extinguishes itself.

Answer 2

All depends in your particular interest in life, career and Society. We were born in some group like national, gender, racial, economic or religious groups and to be attached to this group values let us scale positions. In interrelations with other social or cultural groups we have to deal with them in order to get mutual benefits. Diplomacy and kindness let us deal in smarter manner with  other groups but, prejudices and intolerance divide societies and make difficult to reach our goals. Positive attitude about race bring us understanding.

Answer 3

yes. it's never been about that, it's about money, and the haves and the have nots.

Answer 4

When it comes right down to the facts, there is but one race.  The Human race.  If people would understand that life would be so much more pleasant.

Answer 5

That's a difficult question. I think kids today are exposed to more races and cultures. My parents were somewhat racist and I didn't take after them. In school I had many different friends and even boyfriends but I also grew up in a "bad" neighborhood. I've even come to categorize races into two basic groups.  Among blacks you have the "ghetto" ones and the ones I just call black. Among hispanics (which I am) you have the same thing. If anything, it's just gotten worse over time. The older I get and the more I deal with people the more I know and understand. Stereotypes are sometimes dead on.

Answer 6

You see, I'm biracial (black-white) and I just noticed how 'unusual' it seemed to other people. To me when I was a child I just played with the fact as chocolate and milk but now they're two different cultures and I take it more seriously because people are like "oh you're biracial? That's cool!" and on the media they show mixed girls all the time because they have 'the best of both worlds' if you know what I mean. So now I'm just hyperaware of other races and how they treat each other and now that I realize my parents are different, I feel like I should choose to call myself 'mixed' or 'biracial' instead of African American (because that's basically what people called me just because I look like it). People seem to characterize others a lot more by their colour and I think race has a lot more to do about culture differentiation. I don't know I'm still trying to figure everything out!

Answer 7

It actually changed from the translated statement,"...and We have created the different races not that they despise one another, but that they may get to know each other." That allowed me to see the subtle differences in people, but the sameness. Those differences are restricted to language and regions,food and eating habits, worship and lack of, culture and the rituals surrounding death.

Answer 8

I don't think it's ever changed.

When I was a kid, part of my life was growing up in a neighborhood predominantly Latino/Hispanic, I'd say 20% Asian, and 1% African American.

I remember going to 1st grade and the kids playing with their own race.. I VIVIDLY remember this one African American kid who used to play by himself in the field all alone. I wanted to befriend him, but he was much older. I felt really bad seeing that he was by himself all the time, that no one else wanted to talk to him.

Some of the kids I hung out with would talk ish about other kids of different races. I would say, "That's NOT nice. What if someone said that about you??!!" They still hung out with me after I would talk back to them, but.. I always saw people as "people"... brothers/sisters, both different (in terms of values/cultural upbringing) and the same (in terms of basic needs/personal interests), I just saw their ignorant comments as "low self-esteem" and a dysfunction in their way of thinking, perhaps their families were just really crude people and they couldn't help it.

In fact, my views still are so pretty much the same that it's become even MORE amplified. I hope to one day (soon as I'm done with my Master's Degree) to be an Advocate for Human Rights!

Answer 9

Well I'm only 13 years old so I racial injustice hasn't really affected me like it has for other minorities many years ago.

I think integration is better but it's still not the way it should be. If you go into an average school in America you may see some sort of a division between different races.

You may see the "black" group which are like the more ghetto ones. Usually they also hang out with other people of the same race.

And then the Caucasians are serperate from the blacks and some of the hispanics.

I am an african american but most people call me white or an oreo everyday because I choose to hang out with a larger caucasian group.

What I mean to say is if you for example go into a cafeteria you might see a few tables with only black students and tables with only white students.

A few tables are integrated. This is a widespread thing and this is what people like MLK jr. tried to prevent.

Of course discrimination and segregation are no more but when it comes to cliques in school it might be a problem.

I'm sorry it's a little washy but my brains a bit fuzzy at the moment.