Race

So this week I learned that race does not exist... As teenagers in America, we have always been taught that your race is an identifier to who you are and where you come from, but that is not necessarily true. your race can change based on your social and cultural environment. We had an activity where Sal lined up 7 balls with distinct characteristics and had us put them in groups based on these characteristics. I divided mine by sports: basketball, baseball, football, and soccer. Easy. As time went on he kept adding more and more balls that didnt always necessarily belong to a certain group I had already established so it was hard to classify them. The lesson learned was that much like we feel about people, we felt that the balls all should be able to somehow be grouped and put with others of its kind, but once more balls (or people) are added it is a much broader spectrum of differences. People all around the world are different. They look, feel, and act different so instead of treating each "race" as an individual, we should all just focus on the important individuals that surround us no matter what society classifies them as.