The Difference Between Race And Race

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Throughout the Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender class, we discussed about race, ethnicity, class and gender and how they are involved in our lives today. I read different articles under each of the topics in the class, answered questions and discussed them in our follow-up class the week after. In each of our discussions, I’ve learned something new. Everywhere I go race, ethnicity, class and gender are all around me and there’s nothing I can do to change it, just accept it. Some people don’t know the difference between race and ethnicity, but I do. Race is biology and ethnicity is culture. Race is your physical appearance like what you look like such as skin color, your DNA, etc., and ethnicity is your language such as Spanish, Chinese, French, etc. At the beginning of our class, we had to learn quite a few different things in order to do our semester project assignment which I did the stereotypes of Bernie Mac in his own show. How did he use his racial stereotypes in TV show? …show more content…

It shouldn’t matter what you look like or where you are you from. You have to think of something positive to do and make fun of it in a good way. Show people that you aren’t turned down by what they say and do to you. For example, I read an article about a young dark skinned man who kidnapped, raped and murdered a young light skinned woman and thought he could get away with it because he had the most expensive lawyer that his parent provided him and he always thought that he could keep getting off the hook, but after a while, after his parents didn’t have enough money to afford the lawyer, the lawyer didn’t care what happened to him at all. So after some time, he was charged with first degree murder, arson, kidnapping, and rape of a young light skinned woman. He was found guilty and sentenced to death. Tracy E. Ore (October 7,

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