Post Reading Week 2

• Race involves people with the same physical characteristics, a social construction, and can't be changed unlike ethnicity. Race is determined in physical characteristics and is defined as an identity of a person. Ethnicity on the other hand is group of people that share the same history and culture within the population. Also, ethnicity is changeable, meaning if a person choses to stop believing in atheist then they can change into being a catholic or any religion possible and now one is going to judge that person. Ethnicity is a feeling of "being in a certain group that believes in one point or another."
• Yes my beliefs changed since I watched the video and discussed in class. I thought race was biologically real but it's not because people assume that they are in the same genetic code of a person that has the same race as them but they thought wrong because they have an interracial blood from other parts of the world they thought they wouldn't have. For example, mitochondrial test of DNA can prove that people can be part chinese even though they didn't have any characteristics of a chinese person. In addition to, I thought people in the past didn't practice eugenics but in the video and class discussion, it's one of the biggest point that white supremacy has taken place before. Also, I thought Latino/a is a race but it's not classified as race. 
• Race and Ethnicity can have similarities and differences but mostly they can be interchangeable and I think thats why people can be confused of what is race and ethnicity. Some individuals gets confused because they don't know that meaning and the differences between race and ethnicity.
• I think race affects people because of the power the society influences. Whites are in the higher hierarchy of the class level while Blacks on the other hand is in the lower level of an American hierarchy. Furthermore, whites get to identify and define people because they're always thought of being powerful and potent. Immigrants or other racial identities thought that being white can get them more benefits than being an inferior minority. I think everyone has the right to identify themselves because it's a free country, it's their own identity, and people are the ones who know what race and ethnicity they are qualified in. 
• The society sometimes tend to pin-point the race of a person without asking a person what race do they identify themselves as, basing on the physical structure or the skin color of the person and their capabilities of being superior in actions (like Blacks tend to win over the Whites in a run race because they are genetically fit for the sport) which tends to lead in racism and/or oppression. Also, whites get to identify race because of the power that they posses in the level of hierarchy. 
• Racism is a belief that a person of certain race can be superior in a certain activity or thing. For example, Asians tend to excel in Math, Blacks tend to be superior in running etc., while ethnocentrism is somewhat the same as racism except the people are comparing the superiority between the culture, behavior, and religion. 
• Asians tend to be smarter in Math and Science than other race. Indians tend to work more on computers like information technology in Silicon Valley. Whites tend to lose over blacks in a race. Whites are better in swimming than any other race.
• My race would be Asian or Pacific Islander (I'm not actually sure about this). My ethnicity would be Filipino. My nationality would be Immigrant. Yes I think that these categories match what I identify myself in because all of them are true and these categories I think of myself as. 
• In Abdulrahim, I classify the article as racial identification as linked to power and oppression because the Arab American that classifies himself as "white" believes that he would contract power and benefits for declaring his race as "white". In Strum's article, race as a social construct made by the society to identify how Cherokee a person is by their practice of religion, language, and social behavior. Also, an Indian American can be classified as a Cherokee on how he looks which people believed in on how to classify a person as a Cherokee. 

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