The Physical Differences Of Race And Race In Today's Society

In today’s society, race is a very important issue. From the issue on whether or not the United States should take in Syrian refugees to the murders of countless black individuals such as Sandra Bland, Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, and many others by police officers. “Race” has become a very real part of our daily lives. The physical difference of having white skin compared to black skin can allow a person to live a much different life. For instance, in the video that we watched in class, a black man mentioned that when he walks down the street he’s being watched and if he were to offer to help someone with their groceries, they would become suspicious of him. Another man who was a professor at a college talked about how he has had multiple people walk up to him on campus and ask him if he was one of the coaches for a sports team. While it’s obvious that all human beings have physical differences, these differences are not racial. These variances in our appearances have come from different groups living in different areas of the world and having to cope with different challenges. One example is the skin color. In areas such as southern Africa and

The evidence that anthropologists and other scientists have found that have helped this concept include tests like the ones in the video that we watched in class. In a class of students, they broke into groups and started by blood samples and recording which people they would have the most similarities with. For instance, the black students said they would be similar with each other and the white students believed that they would be similar with each other. This turned out to be false as one of the black students ended up being more similar with a white student and in the case of one white student who traced his ancestry to Europe, he had a perfect match with someone from