I was shocked at how many matches I got wrong from sorting the pictures into classified descriptions by the way the people look. Out of every category I only received two correct and the rest I had mistaken for the wrong ethnicity. I realized that by looking at the physical appearance of an individual you can’t truly classify them. Everyone is made up of a multitude of different genes given by both parents and the combinations are infinite. It’s almost impossible, unless you know the DNA testing of a specific individual, to get their ethnicity correct. By how many pictures I got wrong, it quickly made me realize how incorrect I was about a person’s identity and that I’m too quick to judge other human beings. My reaction towards sorting the pictures into different ethnic groups made me realize how wrong we can be about people that we either just met or are strangers to us. The pigment of their skin can throw an individual off because that’s the main thing spectators look for and the placement of the features on someone’s face. As people we need to realize that every individual is made up of diverse qualities and they can’t be seen just be looking at them physically. When looking at the classified traits such as, blood type and fingerprints, it becomes apparent that every single human being is made unique and there are no duplicates, besides twins, triplets, etc. Every human being is special in their own way, which can be in more ways than one. A person’s ethnic makeup can trace all the way back to relatives generations ago that have certain traits than ran through the bloodline of your parents or grandparents, without knowing it. Every individual’s ethnic makeup is unpredictable and your life is truly in the hands of God in the womb and from then on into the new world.
The activity of sorting people didn’t seem like it was going to be a challenge, but when you end up getting only ten of the twenty character correct you can see how difficult sorting races really is. There were a bunch of people who could have been considered one or the other and a couple people when I got the results that didn’t even seem like the race that the are. This just goes to show that looks can be deceiving and that different races don’t have to be an exact skin complexion. There were also some picture that were taken poorly so that you could not completely tell the race of the people. If the pictures were better quality I may have been able to get the races correct, but there is still no telling because some of the pictures were very difficult to figure. This game just goes to show that race might not be as easy to figure out as just another stereotype that gets around and grows. Maybe you are white, but your skin gets a bit darker than most, or maybe you’re native american and you just don’t get that golden tan that most natives do. There could be many cases where these racial stereotypes don’t end up being right. This exercise proves the point that even though you’re 50% native people may not be able to tell from your looks or even more your action. This also backs the point what matters isn’t your skin color, it who you are and who you strive to be. It shouldn’t matter if you’re purple if you strive to be the nicest person anyone has ever met than that’s how they’ll begin to see you after a while. They’ll see you as a friend and they’ll still see your skin color, but in the long run it won’t make a difference.
I was shocked to find out that most of my guesses for the “Sorting People” website were wrong. I thought that by using the knowledge that I have about what some people look like that are from certain races I would do well, but this demonstration proved me wrong. The characteristics that most people would have used to identify the race of someone were shown incorrect because not everyone fits into the stereotype of their race. Using someone’s hair color, skin color, facial features, or their hair texture is not an accurate way to tell someone’s heritage because all of those things vary. There were some people that I thought “looked” white, but it turned out that they were American Indian. This made me realize that I could have been judging people wrongly for a long time without even knowing it. The part of the website that shows the similar skin colors between the races was very surprising to be because I think that skin color would be a determining factor in finding which race someone belonged to. The fingerprints and blood types show that there is not one determining factor that sets people apart from other racial groups. There is also a note on the chart of the bloodtypes that says all of the four different kinds of blood types occur in every population, while the percentages of how many people have each one varies. This website has shown me that using someone’s appearance to identify them is not the best way to tell things about them. Race is defined differently in many places, but in order to be the most accurate you should let the person tell you about themselves before you begin to assume things about them. As the website states, race cannot tell you how someone may act, or what they are like, but it can tell you who is being discriminated against.
When I took the matching test on categorizing races by appearance, I was shocked to see that I only got 5 out of 20 correct. It showed me that in our society, people do not look into what race people may be, they just assume by the physical appearance. From this matching test, it opened up my eyes and made me realize that I cannot base people off their physical appearance. They could easily be an ethnicity that I may not think of, but think I know because of the physical appearance. Basing someone of their physical look does not mean I know it is right. I do not know the DNA of that person. This experiment made me realize that I always need to take a second look at people before basing who they are off of a first glance. I have no idea who they are or what they are about. This showed me that we live in a diverse world, and people are made up of many different ethnicities. I should not be able to look at someone and just assume they are what I think they are. That is not right. Before I judge someone based on their appearance, I need to either know what their DNA is, or recognize that people are diverse and have different traits than the person they are standing next too. Our society today needs to not judge on their first look of someone. People are so quick to judge, and they try to categorize people everyday based off of their appearance. Our appearance is something we have no control over. Our DNA was given to us by our parents, and traces back from generations ago. Overall, I realized that seeing a person does not tell me anything about who they are or what ethnicity they are, it only shows me things I think I know. I could be completely wrong, and I need to make sure I do not judge the first time I see someone.
Walking into taking this sorting quiz of people by their races, I was astonished by how poorly I actually did. As I pressed the, "next" button which submits my answers before revealing to me what I had gotten wrong, I was extremely confident in that I had gotten no more than two or three wrong and that I had paid close enough attention to the characteristics of these people to know for sure their racial identity. Immediately after I clicked the next key and looked at my final results, I was astonished at the fact that I had only correctly identified one person for every one of the races which was available to me. as I looked through the people's information and learned what race they actually identified as, I found some fairly horrible things which these people have gone through socially because of how people see their race. One woman who identifies as African American stated that she regularly feels very uncomfortable around some white people, because since they assume that she is a white woman (because of her blue eyes and fair skin) they will speak of African American people using offensive racial slurs without realizing that she herself is a black woman. Another man whom identifies as white, is often thought to be lazy and to steal. This is a great example of racism in modern society; it seems that although races are no longer likely to be physically harmed for the color of their skin, that they are being persecuted socially by racial stereotypes which they have been cursed with since birth, and this activity revealed that these stereotypes are not always seen affecting people who are even actually of the race which they are being persecuted for. Some people used for this activity even associated themselves with no race at all because they believe that a person is a human and can not be categorized by their skin color or other features of their body. My eyes were opened through seeing just how wrong I was in deciphering the races of these people simply by appearance, and how every human is unique which is why we should not make assumptions of people based on their appearances at all.
The website activity of sorting people into race categories seemed like a simple task. However, after I had finished, I was surprised to see that a majority of my classifications were wrong. I thought that the activity would be mundane and not require much effort to accomplish, but the results were far different than what I was expecting to see. I realized that physical appearance is not a defining factor of a race. I was only looking for the stereotypical features for each category to classify someone. By using only physical characteristics in a picture, such as skin color, hair texture, or facial structure, you cannot accurately determine what someone’s race is. I thought incorrectly that many people were close enough to a stereotype that it was their race, but was quite wrong. Even using more complex characteristics of a person such as blood type and fingerprints, they cannot be classified with precision. There is little to no correlation between blood type, fingerprint, and skin tone judging from the evidence provided in the activity. I also realized that the US Census demographics for people were dubious until the introduction of self-determination of race. The best method for collecting accurate data on what race or races that a person belongs to is to simply ask them. Having a person classify him or herself is an easy way to have an accurate representation of people. Individuals should have the right to classify themselves in one or more groups because all people are unique and do not always fit into a specific category. I enjoyed the activity because it made me think that how I judge people is a biased and often incorrect method. The website also points out that having accurate data on races is important to help solve problems where discrimination against a population may occur.
This site shocked me with how hard it really is to tell what someone's race is. I only got a few of the matches right in guessing the peoples races, showing how hard it is to tell what someone's race really is. One especially eye opening fact was that people’s skin color varied in their race. Not all white people were fair skinned and not all blacks were dark skinned. Other features like hair were also quite varying, adding onto the fact that physical features mean nothing about someone's race. This showed that peoples features do not define their race. This is an example of just how unfair it is to label people because of their skin color. Skin color isn't an accurate measure of someone's race. Other traits like fingerprint type and blood type in the other activity were evenly distributed among all of the different race. No one trait correlated especially with a certain race, showing that there truly is no difference between races. The name of this activity, Sorting People, really is contradictory because it shows that there is no good way to sort people by their race. This makes me realize just how unfair it was to label slaves by their race, as ace can be hard to tell by appearance. There are little to no differences between the races and that is solidified through this activity. This shows that it is unfair to judge someones race just by how they look. I was especially surprised by what I found in this article because most people today just assume someones race by looking at them. This system of judging based on visual stereotypes is unfair as looks don’t tell the whole story. I learned just how little I really know about race, and that it is not just based on how someone looks.
This site shocked me with how hard it really is to tell what someone's race is. I only got a few of the matches right in guessing the peoples races, showing how hard it is to tell what someone's race really is. One especially eye opening fact was that people’s skin color varied in their race. Not all white people were fair skinned and not all blacks were dark skinned. Other features like hair were also quite varying, adding onto the fact that physical features mean nothing about someone's race. This showed that peoples features do not define their race. This is an example of just how unfair it is to label people because of their skin color. Skin color isn't an accurate measure of someone's race. Other traits like fingerprint type and blood type in the other activity were evenly distributed among all of the different race. No one trait correlated especially with a certain race, showing that there truly is no difference between races. The name of this activity, Sorting People, really is contradictory because it shows that there is no good way to sort people by their race. This makes me realize just how unfair it was to label slaves by their race, as ace can be hard to tell by appearance. There are little to no differences between the races and that is solidified through this activity. This shows that it is unfair to judge someones race just by how they look. I was especially surprised by what I found in this article because most people today just assume someones race by looking at them. This system of judging based on visual stereotypes is unfair as looks don’t tell the whole story. I learned just how little I really know about race, and that it is not just based on how someone looks.
My reactions to this website, and the idea of how people are characterized is that people have many ways that make them different and alike. Different blood types, fingerprints, and skin color are ways to create a difference between two people. I think it is cool how people have different fingerprint designs. This is a cool unknown way that set people apart. The fingerprint of someone can be used in criminal investigation and even just another way to identify who that person is. This website did a good job of explaining how many different factors go along with race and there are other ways to separate people not just by race. Also the skin color was interesting because it showed that even if two people are asian and Hispanic they could have the same skin color. Another point that this website made was that every trait is present in every race. This points out that even if people are white, and american Indian they could still have the same blood type, fingerprints, or skin color. I think this is really cool because it shows that people should not be classified just by their race because they could have other similarities that could classify them in the same group. Blood type O and A are the most common for all races and that only some blood types can give to others and some can only receive from certain ones. I was surprised that when I did the classification of the races that I got a lot of them wrong. I mixed up a lot of the races because they looked so similar. This proves the ideas that people who are different races can have the same physical appearance. I learned from this website on sorting people that there are different ways of classifying people besides their ethnically background. There are ways to classify people in a group of skin color, blood type, and fingerprint. This means that people who are a different race could have the same characteristics as above.
As a whole, most people feel as though they can group people by ethnicity based on physical characteristics. I was shocked to find out that my guesses on the “Sorting People” activity were horribly wrong. When I only got one person out of each ethnicity right, I was shocked to see that people of an ethnicity don’t actually look all that alike. It’s so common for people to sort people into racial groups based on how they really look, but the ways people look can be deceiving. You may think someone looks like they are Native American, but they really could be Asian American, African American, or white American. There really is no way to successfully group people by the way they look without offending people. Something that people may not know is that fingerprints are not a distinct characteristic of only one type of race. The four different fingerprint types are universal and can be seen on any person of any race. The loop, the most common type of fingerprint, can be seen on 65% of all the people throughout the world, and are not limited to whites, Africans, Asians, or any other race exclusively. Another thing that is universal is blood type. One type of blood, for example, blood type A, is not only limited to one type of race and can be seen in randomly chosen people of randomly chosen races. Another thing I like from the “Sorting People” activity and its facts that people can learn is that race does not always determine the color of the skin. Just because someone is a white American, does not mean they are always white. Skin color is based on pigmentation from where the original race was located. Since there are various parts of one race, not all people look alike. Overall, I learned that stereotyping people based on physical appearance is not always accurate and can be offensive to people.
I was totally caught off guard by the amount of mis matches I got because I did not think it would be that hard to distribute people into a certain race by just looking at their face. This website is a great source for people to go to, to better understand the concept of the different races. It is not always that the skin color of somebody is the same as what the general skin color of their race they are in, because they could have descendants from other races but were born into the race that they are in right now. The Is Race for Real website is a great source for better understanding of how different races are put together and how they are sorted not just based on skin color but their ethnic background and family ties. This part of the website where you had to match all the people with their own race and it is very difficult to do without any extra background to base their race for them. When I tried to match them up with their race I got half of them wrong and then I noticed that it was a small possibility to just match someone up with their race group just based on their skin color. I think that on this website the most understandable and informational part was this part where I had to match people up with their races because I like to learn by seeing things and this gave me the best information out of all the other regions of the website. Overall this website was a very good source of information for me to learn about the different races and how they can all be different skin colors and ethnicities. Races are not just based on the skin colors of people.
This activity shows that there is much more than skin color and facial features that determined race. I thought for sure I knew what race most of the people were. It was insane how many I got wrong. Out of the twenty I got eight correct. Going off of physical features and today's views of what certain races look did not help me a bit. I probably would have gotten more right by guessing and placing the people randomly. This activity made me realize how off society is with connected a skin color to race. There are lots of stereotypes with facial features for different races, but those are not necessarily true. The majority of people have mixed backgrounds from different races. So a person would more likely not just be white, but they could also be a little Hispanic, or a small part of any other race. When I was clicking through the page where it says, “Explore Traits”, it shows skin color has nothing at all to do with race. For an example, a Native American, who is usually assumed to have darker skin, could have a light complexion that would be more connected with white people. Finger prints and blood type have nothing to do with race either. After reading I tried it again and did much better. I got thirteen right out of twenty. It was still surprising to see how I still got some wrong by assuming the people were a certain race. This just goes to show that you can not always tell a persons race from looking at them. You have to talk to them to get to know their true ethnicity. This website did a great job of proving a point that race is not always what you see. It really made me think what race people are. This is something that I will always remember.
What I saw from this website opened my eyes. What did this was by how far off I was when playing the race matching game. This came to tell me a lot about race. The first thing that I saw is that race does not matter. This idea is supported in the way that it was hard for me to be able to tell the differences between the races, and I sometimes could not tell the difference at all. This made me start to think that if I can barely tell the difference why does it matter. This in turn made me realize how pointless race truly is and that your skin color does not matter. The next thing that I got out of this was that why do we care so much about race. I questioned this because we are humans and are all the same on the inside so why judge the outside. The next conclusion that I came to based off of this website was that I am not the only one who has trouble matching these people to their respective races. This inturn creates a huge question why do people discriminate against other races? My own answer to this is simple. I think that races discriminate against one another in order to take advantage of each other. This is clearly supported in the way that white slave holders became rich off of their slaves free labor. An example of this can be seen in a narrative by Douglass. Douglass who is a slave works hard as a caulker and makes some good money however, at the end of the week he has to give his paycheck to his master just because he is his slave. I found this to be a rather prime example of one race taking advantage of another through the idea of racism and discrimination. Overall, this website was eye opening and revealed that race truly does not matter.
After completing the sorting people activity, I was astonished by how many I had gotten wrong. I had figured all throughout the sorting that I was going to do a pretty good job, but I was sure wrong. I ended up getting more than half incorrect, and this was eye opening. As humans, we all make judgments and guesses towards people and most of the time they are wildly incorrect and in the case of the sorting people activity, nothing changes. This proves that people shouldn’t just make these judgements and guesses about others, but really get to know someone before they just blindly shout out those things. Along with that is the other point on how bad the United States’ profiling system was. Before, they would just place people in categories that the officials thought that people belonged in. This was a complete failure, as shown by what the whole purpose of the activity was, so they resorted to a way of having the people mark down what they self-identified as. This process, at least in my opinion and pretty much everyone elses, is way better because it clears up confusion that can be brought up by false labeling, which based on the activity, is a very easy thing to do. All in all, I felt like this activity was quite the eye opening experience. It showed me that people can very easily be misidentified and that the process that was used before by the United States government was basically primitive compared to what is is place today with the people making their own choice on their race. Along with that, it also showed me how I can come to make judgements too quickly, as do many others, and that I should not come to conclusions so fast and try not to judge people only based on looks.
I was completely surprised at how many matches I got wrong. That was a lot harder than I thought. I thought that my selection were fine and I was going to get most of them correct. That couldn’t have been further off. I only got 6 out of the 24 correct. Some of the people were completely different from what I classified them as. It is just astounding that society today still looks first at how the person looks. They don’t care about the person beneath the skin. They only care about what color the skin is. People today are obsessed with stereotypes. They are quick to judge someone on how they look. Then they place that person under specific stereotypes that people that look like then are usually associated with. People do not see the true person in others. They only see what they want to see, their outward appearance. People think that race is the only way to classify people. They do not even think about how the people act or how they actually are on the inside. They are so quick to judge others based on such little characteristics like race. People usually do not look into who a person actually is. They just apply the stereotype that applies to that person’s appearance and they do not look past that. They do not look into the actual person, just the stereotype that applies to them. It is just so sad to see society become like this. This is not how I want to see society. The society that I would like to live in is one that everybody is equal. That society would be amazing. Everyone would live in harmony with racial discrimination and equality would be available for everyone. Overall, this website really made me think about the idea of race and how to help society.
I was very surprised at how poorly I did when matching. I had an idea that I was doing very well until I submitted and found out that I only got 7 right. Most of these people were completely different than what I had determined based off of looks. I think this was designed to make people like me to look from the outside in, on the fact that people are distinguished by race all the time and sometimes overlooked because of that race. This website really made me think of how I selected the people. It also made me think of how society would have selected people, I really surprised myself when I thought of this. In society people are obsessed with race and how people are described and really categorized by race. The color of skin causes some people to overlook who the person really is because on the inside, every human is made up of the same things. Those things may be different in ways but on a larger scale they are all the same. This website really made me think of how race does change the perspective on many people. It also opened my eyes to how this is present in my own life and I think it is in some way. All over people are discriminated and treated differently because of race and I think this website is opening eyes and making ordinary people start to question what they are doing and little by little trying to change society for the better. Doing the matching and finding how wrong I really was opened my eyes to the fact that this was happening and I liked that my perspective was changed by doing this and that I really started to notice something that I was not focused on before.
After taking the Sorting People quiz by PBS I was surprised to find that I could not identify people by the way they look. Prior to taking this quiz I assumed that it would be easy and that I would actually get most of the matches correct, however I barely got any right. By taking this quiz I have learned that I can let myself judge others as soon as I first meet or see them. I have also learned that other people do the same thing, judging others too quickly. I have now realized that in order to determine someone's race you have to look their DNA test results or have them tell you. I have also learned that blood types and finger prints vary between all of the races. Looking at someone and trying to determine their race through their psychical characteristics is definitely not an accurate way of determining someone’s race. It can also be disrespectful to the person you are judging. I have honestly believed that I could identify people’s race by the way that they look and especially because of people’s skin color. This quiz has made me realize that I should not assume what people’s races are by their psychical characteristics or skin color. I believe that this quiz is an excellent way to show people how hard it truly is to classify people based solely on their appearance.
Well first of all, I did terrible on the sorting thing. That was hard. Especially since the lighting in every picture was different so it was hard to judge skin color. It was also really difficult to differentiate facial features. Very interesting though to see how each person is classified in the United States. What I am confused by though is, are these people actually the ethnic background that they are classified? Or does this article just want to prove that regardless of what they are, this is how the United States would classify them? I think it is cool how they show the skin color, fingerprints, and blood types too. it would be cool to be a part of that 1% that has “tented” fingerprints. Bottom line is though, this activity sums up the fact that there are many things that make people different from each other whether is be skin color or blood types. Race is a social idea that has blown up so hugely that people do not understand that it is just another way to differentiate people in the world. That was a neat way of doing that though, by starting with skin color and showing how that makes people the same, but different. Then it went into blood type and fingerprints to show that it mixes up who is the same versus who is different. the moral of the story is that race is something we need in society to show the difference in people, however, it has been blown up so much and people take advantage of the ideas of racism and discrimination. It was fun to be able to do an activity though. It shows us how surprising it is that some people are classified a certain way versus what we might think and judge on our own.
I was shocked at how many matches I got wrong from sorting the pictures into classified descriptions by the way the people look. Out of every category I only received two correct and the rest I had mistaken for the wrong ethnicity. I realized that by looking at the physical appearance of an individual you can’t truly classify them. Everyone is made up of a multitude of different genes given by both parents and the combinations are infinite. It’s almost impossible, unless you know the DNA testing of a specific individual, to get their ethnicity correct. By how many pictures I got wrong, it quickly made me realize how incorrect I was about a person’s identity and that I’m too quick to judge other human beings. My reaction towards sorting the pictures into different ethnic groups made me realize how wrong we can be about people that we either just met or are strangers to us. The pigment of their skin can throw an individual off because that’s the main thing spectators look for and the placement of the features on someone’s face. As people we need to realize that every individual is made up of diverse qualities and they can’t be seen just be looking at them physically. When looking at the classified traits such as, blood type and fingerprints, it becomes apparent that every single human being is made unique and there are no duplicates, besides twins, triplets, etc. Every human being is special in their own way, which can be in more ways than one. A person’s ethnic makeup can trace all the way back to relatives generations ago that have certain traits than ran through the bloodline of your parents or grandparents, without knowing it. Every individual’s ethnic makeup is unpredictable and your life is truly in the hands of God in the womb and from then on into the new world.
ReplyDeleteThe activity of sorting people didn’t seem like it was going to be a challenge, but when you end up getting only ten of the twenty character correct you can see how difficult sorting races really is. There were a bunch of people who could have been considered one or the other and a couple people when I got the results that didn’t even seem like the race that the are. This just goes to show that looks can be deceiving and that different races don’t have to be an exact skin complexion. There were also some picture that were taken poorly so that you could not completely tell the race of the people. If the pictures were better quality I may have been able to get the races correct, but there is still no telling because some of the pictures were very difficult to figure. This game just goes to show that race might not be as easy to figure out as just another stereotype that gets around and grows. Maybe you are white, but your skin gets a bit darker than most, or maybe you’re native american and you just don’t get that golden tan that most natives do. There could be many cases where these racial stereotypes don’t end up being right. This exercise proves the point that even though you’re 50% native people may not be able to tell from your looks or even more your action. This also backs the point what matters isn’t your skin color, it who you are and who you strive to be. It shouldn’t matter if you’re purple if you strive to be the nicest person anyone has ever met than that’s how they’ll begin to see you after a while. They’ll see you as a friend and they’ll still see your skin color, but in the long run it won’t make a difference.
ReplyDeleteI was shocked to find out that most of my guesses for the “Sorting People” website were wrong. I thought that by using the knowledge that I have about what some people look like that are from certain races I would do well, but this demonstration proved me wrong. The characteristics that most people would have used to identify the race of someone were shown incorrect because not everyone fits into the stereotype of their race. Using someone’s hair color, skin color, facial features, or their hair texture is not an accurate way to tell someone’s heritage because all of those things vary. There were some people that I thought “looked” white, but it turned out that they were American Indian. This made me realize that I could have been judging people wrongly for a long time without even knowing it. The part of the website that shows the similar skin colors between the races was very surprising to be because I think that skin color would be a determining factor in finding which race someone belonged to. The fingerprints and blood types show that there is not one determining factor that sets people apart from other racial groups. There is also a note on the chart of the bloodtypes that says all of the four different kinds of blood types occur in every population, while the percentages of how many people have each one varies. This website has shown me that using someone’s appearance to identify them is not the best way to tell things about them. Race is defined differently in many places, but in order to be the most accurate you should let the person tell you about themselves before you begin to assume things about them. As the website states, race cannot tell you how someone may act, or what they are like, but it can tell you who is being discriminated against.
ReplyDeleteWhen I took the matching test on categorizing races by appearance, I was shocked to see that I only got 5 out of 20 correct. It showed me that in our society, people do not look into what race people may be, they just assume by the physical appearance. From this matching test, it opened up my eyes and made me realize that I cannot base people off their physical appearance. They could easily be an ethnicity that I may not think of, but think I know because of the physical appearance. Basing someone of their physical look does not mean I know it is right. I do not know the DNA of that person. This experiment made me realize that I always need to take a second look at people before basing who they are off of a first glance. I have no idea who they are or what they are about. This showed me that we live in a diverse world, and people are made up of many different ethnicities. I should not be able to look at someone and just assume they are what I think they are. That is not right. Before I judge someone based on their appearance, I need to either know what their DNA is, or recognize that people are diverse and have different traits than the person they are standing next too. Our society today needs to not judge on their first look of someone. People are so quick to judge, and they try to categorize people everyday based off of their appearance. Our appearance is something we have no control over. Our DNA was given to us by our parents, and traces back from generations ago. Overall, I realized that seeing a person does not tell me anything about who they are or what ethnicity they are, it only shows me things I think I know. I could be completely wrong, and I need to make sure I do not judge the first time I see someone.
ReplyDeleteWalking into taking this sorting quiz of people by their races, I was astonished by how poorly I actually did. As I pressed the, "next" button which submits my answers before revealing to me what I had gotten wrong, I was extremely confident in that I had gotten no more than two or three wrong and that I had paid close enough attention to the characteristics of these people to know for sure their racial identity. Immediately after I clicked the next key and looked at my final results, I was astonished at the fact that I had only correctly identified one person for every one of the races which was available to me. as I looked through the people's information and learned what race they actually identified as, I found some fairly horrible things which these people have gone through socially because of how people see their race. One woman who identifies as African American stated that she regularly feels very uncomfortable around some white people, because since they assume that she is a white woman (because of her blue eyes and fair skin) they will speak of African American people using offensive racial slurs without realizing that she herself is a black woman. Another man whom identifies as white, is often thought to be lazy and to steal. This is a great example of racism in modern society; it seems that although races are no longer likely to be physically harmed for the color of their skin, that they are being persecuted socially by racial stereotypes which they have been cursed with since birth, and this activity revealed that these stereotypes are not always seen affecting people who are even actually of the race which they are being persecuted for. Some people used for this activity even associated themselves with no race at all because they believe that a person is a human and can not be categorized by their skin color or other features of their body. My eyes were opened through seeing just how wrong I was in deciphering the races of these people simply by appearance, and how every human is unique which is why we should not make assumptions of people based on their appearances at all.
ReplyDeleteThe website activity of sorting people into race categories seemed like a simple task. However, after I had finished, I was surprised to see that a majority of my classifications were wrong. I thought that the activity would be mundane and not require much effort to accomplish, but the results were far different than what I was expecting to see. I realized that physical appearance is not a defining factor of a race. I was only looking for the stereotypical features for each category to classify someone. By using only physical characteristics in a picture, such as skin color, hair texture, or facial structure, you cannot accurately determine what someone’s race is. I thought incorrectly that many people were close enough to a stereotype that it was their race, but was quite wrong. Even using more complex characteristics of a person such as blood type and fingerprints, they cannot be classified with precision. There is little to no correlation between blood type, fingerprint, and skin tone judging from the evidence provided in the activity. I also realized that the US Census demographics for people were dubious until the introduction of self-determination of race. The best method for collecting accurate data on what race or races that a person belongs to is to simply ask them. Having a person classify him or herself is an easy way to have an accurate representation of people. Individuals should have the right to classify themselves in one or more groups because all people are unique and do not always fit into a specific category. I enjoyed the activity because it made me think that how I judge people is a biased and often incorrect method. The website also points out that having accurate data on races is important to help solve problems where discrimination against a population may occur.
ReplyDeleteThis site shocked me with how hard it really is to tell what someone's race is. I only got a few of the matches right in guessing the peoples races, showing how hard it is to tell what someone's race really is. One especially eye opening fact was that people’s skin color varied in their race. Not all white people were fair skinned and not all blacks were dark skinned. Other features like hair were also quite varying, adding onto the fact that physical features mean nothing about someone's race. This showed that peoples features do not define their race. This is an example of just how unfair it is to label people because of their skin color. Skin color isn't an accurate measure of someone's race. Other traits like fingerprint type and blood type in the other activity were evenly distributed among all of the different race. No one trait correlated especially with a certain race, showing that there truly is no difference between races. The name of this activity, Sorting People, really is contradictory because it shows that there is no good way to sort people by their race. This makes me realize just how unfair it was to label slaves by their race, as ace can be hard to tell by appearance. There are little to no differences between the races and that is solidified through this activity. This shows that it is unfair to judge someones race just by how they look. I was especially surprised by what I found in this article because most people today just assume someones race by looking at them. This system of judging based on visual stereotypes is unfair as looks don’t tell the whole story. I learned just how little I really know about race, and that it is not just based on how someone looks.
ReplyDeleteThis site shocked me with how hard it really is to tell what someone's race is. I only got a few of the matches right in guessing the peoples races, showing how hard it is to tell what someone's race really is. One especially eye opening fact was that people’s skin color varied in their race. Not all white people were fair skinned and not all blacks were dark skinned. Other features like hair were also quite varying, adding onto the fact that physical features mean nothing about someone's race. This showed that peoples features do not define their race. This is an example of just how unfair it is to label people because of their skin color. Skin color isn't an accurate measure of someone's race. Other traits like fingerprint type and blood type in the other activity were evenly distributed among all of the different race. No one trait correlated especially with a certain race, showing that there truly is no difference between races. The name of this activity, Sorting People, really is contradictory because it shows that there is no good way to sort people by their race. This makes me realize just how unfair it was to label slaves by their race, as ace can be hard to tell by appearance. There are little to no differences between the races and that is solidified through this activity. This shows that it is unfair to judge someones race just by how they look. I was especially surprised by what I found in this article because most people today just assume someones race by looking at them. This system of judging based on visual stereotypes is unfair as looks don’t tell the whole story. I learned just how little I really know about race, and that it is not just based on how someone looks.
ReplyDeleteMy reactions to this website, and the idea of how people are characterized is that people have many ways that make them different and alike. Different blood types, fingerprints, and skin color are ways to create a difference between two people. I think it is cool how people have different fingerprint designs. This is a cool unknown way that set people apart. The fingerprint of someone can be used in criminal investigation and even just another way to identify who that person is. This website did a good job of explaining how many different factors go along with race and there are other ways to separate people not just by race. Also the skin color was interesting because it showed that even if two people are asian and Hispanic they could have the same skin color. Another point that this website made was that every trait is present in every race. This points out that even if people are white, and american Indian they could still have the same blood type, fingerprints, or skin color. I think this is really cool because it shows that people should not be classified just by their race because they could have other similarities that could classify them in the same group. Blood type O and A are the most common for all races and that only some blood types can give to others and some can only receive from certain ones. I was surprised that when I did the classification of the races that I got a lot of them wrong. I mixed up a lot of the races because they looked so similar. This proves the ideas that people who are different races can have the same physical appearance. I learned from this website on sorting people that there are different ways of classifying people besides their ethnically background. There are ways to classify people in a group of skin color, blood type, and fingerprint. This means that people who are a different race could have the same characteristics as above.
ReplyDeleteAs a whole, most people feel as though they can group people by ethnicity based on physical characteristics. I was shocked to find out that my guesses on the “Sorting People” activity were horribly wrong. When I only got one person out of each ethnicity right, I was shocked to see that people of an ethnicity don’t actually look all that alike. It’s so common for people to sort people into racial groups based on how they really look, but the ways people look can be deceiving. You may think someone looks like they are Native American, but they really could be Asian American, African American, or white American. There really is no way to successfully group people by the way they look without offending people. Something that people may not know is that fingerprints are not a distinct characteristic of only one type of race. The four different fingerprint types are universal and can be seen on any person of any race. The loop, the most common type of fingerprint, can be seen on 65% of all the people throughout the world, and are not limited to whites, Africans, Asians, or any other race exclusively. Another thing that is universal is blood type. One type of blood, for example, blood type A, is not only limited to one type of race and can be seen in randomly chosen people of randomly chosen races. Another thing I like from the “Sorting People” activity and its facts that people can learn is that race does not always determine the color of the skin. Just because someone is a white American, does not mean they are always white. Skin color is based on pigmentation from where the original race was located. Since there are various parts of one race, not all people look alike. Overall, I learned that stereotyping people based on physical appearance is not always accurate and can be offensive to people.
ReplyDeleteI was totally caught off guard by the amount of mis matches I got because I did not think it would be that hard to distribute people into a certain race by just looking at their face. This website is a great source for people to go to, to better understand the concept of the different races. It is not always that the skin color of somebody is the same as what the general skin color of their race they are in, because they could have descendants from other races but were born into the race that they are in right now. The Is Race for Real website is a great source for better understanding of how different races are put together and how they are sorted not just based on skin color but their ethnic background and family ties. This part of the website where you had to match all the people with their own race and it is very difficult to do without any extra background to base their race for them. When I tried to match them up with their race I got half of them wrong and then I noticed that it was a small possibility to just match someone up with their race group just based on their skin color. I think that on this website the most understandable and informational part was this part where I had to match people up with their races because I like to learn by seeing things and this gave me the best information out of all the other regions of the website. Overall this website was a very good source of information for me to learn about the different races and how they can all be different skin colors and ethnicities. Races are not just based on the skin colors of people.
ReplyDeleteThis activity shows that there is much more than skin color and facial features that determined race. I thought for sure I knew what race most of the people were. It was insane how many I got wrong. Out of the twenty I got eight correct. Going off of physical features and today's views of what certain races look did not help me a bit. I probably would have gotten more right by guessing and placing the people randomly. This activity made me realize how off society is with connected a skin color to race. There are lots of stereotypes with facial features for different races, but those are not necessarily true. The majority of people have mixed backgrounds from different races. So a person would more likely not just be white, but they could also be a little Hispanic, or a small part of any other race. When I was clicking through the page where it says, “Explore Traits”, it shows skin color has nothing at all to do with race. For an example, a Native American, who is usually assumed to have darker skin, could have a light complexion that would be more connected with white people. Finger prints and blood type have nothing to do with race either. After reading I tried it again and did much better. I got thirteen right out of twenty. It was still surprising to see how I still got some wrong by assuming the people were a certain race. This just goes to show that you can not always tell a persons race from looking at them. You have to talk to them to get to know their true ethnicity. This website did a great job of proving a point that race is not always what you see. It really made me think what race people are. This is something that I will always remember.
ReplyDeleteWhat I saw from this website opened my eyes. What did this was by how far off I was when playing the race matching game. This came to tell me a lot about race. The first thing that I saw is that race does not matter. This idea is supported in the way that it was hard for me to be able to tell the differences between the races, and I sometimes could not tell the difference at all. This made me start to think that if I can barely tell the difference why does it matter. This in turn made me realize how pointless race truly is and that your skin color does not matter. The next thing that I got out of this was that why do we care so much about race. I questioned this because we are humans and are all the same on the inside so why judge the outside. The next conclusion that I came to based off of this website was that I am not the only one who has trouble matching these people to their respective races. This inturn creates a huge question why do people discriminate against other races? My own answer to this is simple. I think that races discriminate against one another in order to take advantage of each other. This is clearly supported in the way that white slave holders became rich off of their slaves free labor. An example of this can be seen in a narrative by Douglass. Douglass who is a slave works hard as a caulker and makes some good money however, at the end of the week he has to give his paycheck to his master just because he is his slave. I found this to be a rather prime example of one race taking advantage of another through the idea of racism and discrimination. Overall, this website was eye opening and revealed that race truly does not matter.
ReplyDeleteAfter completing the sorting people activity, I was astonished by how many I had gotten wrong. I had figured all throughout the sorting that I was going to do a pretty good job, but I was sure wrong. I ended up getting more than half incorrect, and this was eye opening. As humans, we all make judgments and guesses towards people and most of the time they are wildly incorrect and in the case of the sorting people activity, nothing changes. This proves that people shouldn’t just make these judgements and guesses about others, but really get to know someone before they just blindly shout out those things. Along with that is the other point on how bad the United States’ profiling system was. Before, they would just place people in categories that the officials thought that people belonged in. This was a complete failure, as shown by what the whole purpose of the activity was, so they resorted to a way of having the people mark down what they self-identified as. This process, at least in my opinion and pretty much everyone elses, is way better because it clears up confusion that can be brought up by false labeling, which based on the activity, is a very easy thing to do. All in all, I felt like this activity was quite the eye opening experience. It showed me that people can very easily be misidentified and that the process that was used before by the United States government was basically primitive compared to what is is place today with the people making their own choice on their race. Along with that, it also showed me how I can come to make judgements too quickly, as do many others, and that I should not come to conclusions so fast and try not to judge people only based on looks.
ReplyDeleteI was completely surprised at how many matches I got wrong. That was a lot harder than I thought. I thought that my selection were fine and I was going to get most of them correct. That couldn’t have been further off. I only got 6 out of the 24 correct. Some of the people were completely different from what I classified them as. It is just astounding that society today still looks first at how the person looks. They don’t care about the person beneath the skin. They only care about what color the skin is. People today are obsessed with stereotypes. They are quick to judge someone on how they look. Then they place that person under specific stereotypes that people that look like then are usually associated with. People do not see the true person in others. They only see what they want to see, their outward appearance. People think that race is the only way to classify people. They do not even think about how the people act or how they actually are on the inside. They are so quick to judge others based on such little characteristics like race. People usually do not look into who a person actually is. They just apply the stereotype that applies to that person’s appearance and they do not look past that. They do not look into the actual person, just the stereotype that applies to them. It is just so sad to see society become like this. This is not how I want to see society. The society that I would like to live in is one that everybody is equal. That society would be amazing. Everyone would live in harmony with racial discrimination and equality would be available for everyone. Overall, this website really made me think about the idea of race and how to help society.
ReplyDeleteI was very surprised at how poorly I did when matching. I had an idea that I was doing very well until I submitted and found out that I only got 7 right. Most of these people were completely different than what I had determined based off of looks. I think this was designed to make people like me to look from the outside in, on the fact that people are distinguished by race all the time and sometimes overlooked because of that race. This website really made me think of how I selected the people. It also made me think of how society would have selected people, I really surprised myself when I thought of this. In society people are obsessed with race and how people are described and really categorized by race. The color of skin causes some people to overlook who the person really is because on the inside, every human is made up of the same things. Those things may be different in ways but on a larger scale they are all the same. This website really made me think of how race does change the perspective on many people. It also opened my eyes to how this is present in my own life and I think it is in some way. All over people are discriminated and treated differently because of race and I think this website is opening eyes and making ordinary people start to question what they are doing and little by little trying to change society for the better. Doing the matching and finding how wrong I really was opened my eyes to the fact that this was happening and I liked that my perspective was changed by doing this and that I really started to notice something that I was not focused on before.
ReplyDeleteAfter taking the Sorting People quiz by PBS I was surprised to find that I could not identify people by the way they look. Prior to taking this quiz I assumed that it would be easy and that I would actually get most of the matches correct, however I barely got any right. By taking this quiz I have learned that I can let myself judge others as soon as I first meet or see them. I have also learned that other people do the same thing, judging others too quickly. I have now realized that in order to determine someone's race you have to look their DNA test results or have them tell you. I have also learned that blood types and finger prints vary between all of the races. Looking at someone and trying to determine their race through their psychical characteristics is definitely not an accurate way of determining someone’s race. It can also be disrespectful to the person you are judging. I have honestly believed that I could identify people’s race by the way that they look and especially because of people’s skin color. This quiz has made me realize that I should not assume what people’s races are by their psychical characteristics or skin color. I believe that this quiz is an excellent way to show people how hard it truly is to classify people based solely on their appearance.
ReplyDeleteWell first of all, I did terrible on the sorting thing. That was hard. Especially since the lighting in every picture was different so it was hard to judge skin color. It was also really difficult to differentiate facial features. Very interesting though to see how each person is classified in the United States. What I am confused by though is, are these people actually the ethnic background that they are classified? Or does this article just want to prove that regardless of what they are, this is how the United States would classify them? I think it is cool how they show the skin color, fingerprints, and blood types too. it would be cool to be a part of that 1% that has “tented” fingerprints. Bottom line is though, this activity sums up the fact that there are many things that make people different from each other whether is be skin color or blood types. Race is a social idea that has blown up so hugely that people do not understand that it is just another way to differentiate people in the world. That was a neat way of doing that though, by starting with skin color and showing how that makes people the same, but different. Then it went into blood type and fingerprints to show that it mixes up who is the same versus who is different. the moral of the story is that race is something we need in society to show the difference in people, however, it has been blown up so much and people take advantage of the ideas of racism and discrimination. It was fun to be able to do an activity though. It shows us how surprising it is that some people are classified a certain way versus what we might think and judge on our own.
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