How Does Race Influence Our Life Experience
In what ways does ‘Race’ and Ethnicity influences our life experience
This essay will discuss the ways in which Race and Ethnicity influences our life experiences, I will refer to the work of Giddens (2007); Walby (2000); Abercrombie (2003). I will conclude that race is something that will never change and that it will always exist.
Definition Race usually means the break up in different colours of people and background in human beings. This means putting break in racial groups such as, (White), (Black) and (Chinese), therefore race means the biological groupings into which a person is born people of the same race which have physical characteristics in common such as hair colour, eye colour, skin colour, within a race there may be countless variations. Ethnicity is referred to as a social group of people that share some sort of history, sense of identity, geography and cultural/religion roots of the social group to, which a person belongs, the cultural heritage of a person from a particular society shared by others within that society. …show more content…
In here Anthony Giddens argues that race is something that makes up of position/social actions which are structured, it is clear that race is used as an excuse to divide people/nations and label them. It is clear that ‘race exists in many forms, and it is basic to the continuation of racism-prejudice and this is based on socially significant physical distinctions’; this means that people would treat you differently because of your skin colour. Someone who is racist believes that an individual is higher or poorer to
This essay will discuss the ways in which Race and Ethnicity influences our life experiences, I will refer to the work of Giddens (2007); Walby (2000); Abercrombie (2003). I will conclude that race is something that will never change and that it will always exist.
Definition Race usually means the break up in different colours of people and background in human beings. This means putting break in racial groups such as, (White), (Black) and (Chinese), therefore race means the biological groupings into which a person is born people of the same race which have physical characteristics in common such as hair colour, eye colour, skin colour, within a race there may be countless variations. Ethnicity is referred to as a social group of people that share some sort of history, sense of identity, geography and cultural/religion roots of the social group to, which a person belongs, the cultural heritage of a person from a particular society shared by others within that society. …show more content…
In here Anthony Giddens argues that race is something that makes up of position/social actions which are structured, it is clear that race is used as an excuse to divide people/nations and label them. It is clear that ‘race exists in many forms, and it is basic to the continuation of racism-prejudice and this is based on socially significant physical distinctions’; this means that people would treat you differently because of your skin colour. Someone who is racist believes that an individual is higher or poorer to