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In this first part of class we have been learning about race, class and ethnicity. To start I will be giving the definition of each from what Professor Berry has told us. For race we were given to definitions one is a way to categorize based on biological traits: this to me means that we are being categorized by what we look like. The second definition is 'race' the socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of society consider important: this is also dealing with how we look and it is that society places people in boxes that fit the color of their skin. The second term is class which is defined as a system of stratification based on achievement: this is to say that a person is born into a class and they can work their way up or not work and move down. as a society we look at what a person is 'worth' and place them in a box. The last term that I will describe is ethnicity which is a shared cultural heritage this is shared ancestry, language and traditions. People who come from the same background share the same ethnicity and if someones ethnicity is different they are put into a separate box.
As you can see my main thing about society is that it places people in particular boxes. Society views white, middle class and English speaking people to be the majority and if someone is different we place them in a box and look down on them. In the intro it talked about poor people and how we look down on them and when we do help them we place them in parts of town that no one wants to live and we don't give them the means to move up in the world. Before that it was black people it took many years for African Americans to have the same rights as the majority(ex. Whites)
Thinking about how we as a society base our opinions on if someone is the same or different made me think of the song People are Strange original by The Doors but I like the Twiztid version. This video talks about how the strange are looked down upon and forgotten about.