Ethnicity is a subject that is apart of our everyday life and definitely a big part in mine as well. Ethnicity is another term we use to refer to certain race of a group of people who share the same decent or heritage who share the same common culture. Our race is what makes us who we are because that is how we identify ourselves. After reading this section I realized how much we actually identify ourselves without even noticing it. I also noticed how a lot of people say identify themselves based on tribes. For example I have a few friends who are Nigerian but they use tribes to specify the type of Nigerian they are. Another part of this topic that caught my interest was how the author talked about the use of hyphens to describe cultures because it describes a specific group such as “African-Americans or Asian-Americans”. However in the US
I chose this photo because this picture because although it shows the different ethnicities’; it still shows how we can all come together as one regardless of what we’re labeled as to society.
Ethnicity is another we can identity a race. I describe myself as an African American. Not that I think being American is less important than being African, but it is a way to describe the fact that I am black and I live in America. I do agree with you that at the end of the day were are all the same. The image you displayed in your post was great, it represented you point well.
ReplyDeleteI have to say that I identify myself as Latino and put no emphasis on being American except for when I feel America has done something right. Another point to demonstrate this is when we have all people of all backgrounds working together for a common purpose such as voting for the next president or even something as small as a crisis such as the AIDS epidemic. Diseases do not discriminate, therefore, neither should we.
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