In the documentary assigned they go into great detail about how race is perceived by people in todays modern society. The documentary honestly did not change any of the assumptions that I already had about race. It is kind of just part of society today that people often get stereotyped by the race that they are. For example I feel like most people in todays society think that people of African decent have more athletic ability that than people of all other races. Another example from the movie is that white people are more privileged than other races and once again I feel that is a very common issue in todays society that is assumed by a lot of people. The one thing from the movie that did surprise me though was that people of two different races some times have very little genetic diversity. They said that people of two different races sometimes have less diversity than people of the same race. I found that to be very odd because I though genes were what determined ones race and people of the same race would have very similar genes. …show more content…
The biological view can be defined as grouping people to how they are built. In the documentary they mention that scientist have done extensive research on the dimensions of people such as head size, ear size, and nose size. They have found tendencies between different people based on where they are from so they used these factors to group them into different races. The social view of race can be based only off the color of ones skin. This is unfortunate because the only thing that caused skin to be like this is the selective factors that these people used to survive thousands of years ago. It makes a case that there really is only one race, and that is the human race. People have gotten so caught up in putting individuals into groups that it has caused some problems in