Pre-reading Week 2

• I define race is based on color of an individual. It's more like a classification of individuals in a certain place. Also human beings can be define based on their color, physical characteristics (e.g. short, tall, hair color, skin complexion, etc.)
• African-Americans (people that originated from Africa or their background history is from Africa). Asian-Americans like Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Thailand, Malaysian, etc. (minorities migrated from the Pacific Ocean and Middle Eastern part of the globe). Latino-Americans (group of individuals that came from the southern part of America). Chicanos are also preferred as U.S. citizens of Mexican decent. White (I see this every time I fill out an application and it's always the first choice in the given choices of ethnicity or race; Whites that are from north east part of the the globe).
• Certain individuals can also be in a race if they share the same skin color, hair color, physical features, and characteristics. Some people can  be in two different culture or can speak two different language. A person can be half-half in their race, meaning the person's mother can be Filipino and his/her dad can be White.
• I think categorizations vary from society to society, it might depend on their beliefs about the race or the culture of group of individuals. I originally grew up in the Philippines and migrated to United States when I was 14 years old and for me it seems that the classification system is the same. 
• Ethnicity of a certain individual can be based on their share of common culture, beliefs, religion, language (mother tongue). 
• I'm not sure about the difference between the race and ethnicity but i strongly suggest that race is about physical characteristics like hair color, skin color, height or other characteristics that can define a person in a certain group. In contrast to, ethnicity is about cultural characteristics and their beliefs.
• For my race as a Filipino decent, I have black hair, tan skin color (sometimes other people categorizes Asians that have yellow skin, but not because they have Hep A or B it's just in their genes to have yellowish skin tone). As for my ethnicity as a Filipino, we strongly believe in religion and Christ/Jesus as holy figure, the one that we worship. 
• Sometimes people do tend to think that I'm half Chinese and half Filipino because I don't have a tan skin tone. In some occasion they identify me as Filipino which is the correct race or ethnicity. People that identified me correctly as a Filipino probably new how the Filipinos look like and have an understanding or an overview of the culture and beliefs of Filipinos.

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