On Race And How it Should Not Separate Us

maianishikawa29 — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 01:13:01 +0000

Well I was at school a couple days ago, and I did something really unlike me, just for the heck of it- so that I could see from a normal teenagers perspective. I looked at people by race. And I have to say, I’m really astounded! I know it might not be so in many schools, but I see that in a town like mine, everyone is sitting with everyone, and doing everything. It was almost like it didn’t matter, aside from a few small groups of blacks and asians. (And about that, I really think it’s the silliest thing to call someone a black person, as if that’s the thing that distinguishes them. I mean its apperance I suppose, but why couldn’t we call someone by something like ‘the buisnessman, or ‘the one with the silly smile.’ Asian is a little better, it tells where they come from, but even that is weird because most asians at my school at least and in most schools were born here.. Anyways…)

Then I realized that the places in which the schools are more seperated by race are the places that are less open minded and accepting of all cultures. I know this might seem like a ‘no duh’ to a lot of people but it wasn’t for me because I’ve never thought of a person by race until my asian flashback. And so I thought, maybe to make things more accepting around the world, what needs to happen is for first of all, more people to move out of their comfort zone and go where there aren’t many of their race and start bridging the gap by finding things in common and secondly, to stop talking about and implying racist things, or even just the idea that race makes people different. (ex: oh, he’s so street smart, he’s so black.) If we keep talking about how racism is bad, never say things like that, never judge people, it will teach people that in this world, there are people that do that and think that way and it will increace the chance of future generations being like we are, all seperated and stuff. If we never talked about it being bad and never did it, wouldn’t our kids just follow along on the right path?

I really don’t know for sure, nor I think does anyone, but I really would like some input. Open discussion anyone?

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On Race And How it Should Not Separate Us