Social Construct
In today’s world race is considered to be a social construct, due to everyone being classified as a different race. People are put into different categories by their skin color, or their place of origin. If you live in the United States and you look white everyone is going to assume that you are a white Caucasian, when in reality you could be Italian, British, Canadian, or any other ethnicity that looks white. Most human beings base their assumptions and their stereotypical thoughts on the way people look. Human beings have a keen eye for noticing that someone else looks different and there is something wrong, and we pick up on that in today’s society. Some will argue that there is a need for diversity in today’s society. I say it is a necessary part of today’s society, because it is used to help categorize people, and to help with filing in the government. For example whenever someone is watching the news and someone is a suspect in a shooting, or if someone is missing. Almost every time they will tell you what gender, or what race they are either it be white, black or Hispanic.
Social and cultural constructs have always impacted privileges and power in society. In the United States, you must be a natural born citizen inside the country. In the past laws were made to only granted to white males to vote, or even to own property. Also white males were given sections of land, their own slaves to work the land. Blacks weren’t given any of these rights, because somewhere someone decided that if you were black that you were only worthy of being a slave. That isn’t right now and it wasn’t right then either. Woman in the past United States were also not granted privileges. Previously before August 26, 1920 women were not granted the right to vote. Susan B. Antony and a large group of woman protesters had a long hard battle of ending woman suffrage in the United States The 19th amendment finally ended all woman suffrage. African American Suffrage was also ended
Social and cultural constructs have always impacted privileges and power in society. In the United States, you must be a natural born citizen inside the country. In the past laws were made to only granted to white males to vote, or even to own property. Also white males were given sections of land, their own slaves to work the land. Blacks weren’t given any of these rights, because somewhere someone decided that if you were black that you were only worthy of being a slave. That isn’t right now and it wasn’t right then either. Woman in the past United States were also not granted privileges. Previously before August 26, 1920 women were not granted the right to vote. Susan B. Antony and a large group of woman protesters had a long hard battle of ending woman suffrage in the United States The 19th amendment finally ended all woman suffrage. African American Suffrage was also ended