Race

So in class, we have been talking about race. Race is different from place to place, from society from society. We also learned the biology behind race, that there isn't any! this may come to a shock to a lot of people because we almost assume there must be something genetic involving race, but there isn't. One of the many problems I see with this is, we should be taught earlier that race is made up, not when we are 17 or 18. We have made up our minds about most things by now. I think a lot of people will have a hard time believing it even if a great teacher like Sal says so, which is unfortunate. i like to think that we come from a more tolerant area but racism is everywhere and even then, without hate, we still acknowledge race all the time. African-American is the "politically correct" term for black, when you can be black and be from Australia or Brazil. We generalize people in our attempt to be less racist, that cannot be the case in our quest for equality among all colors, religions, cultures etc. We aren't as different as we think and need act accordingly.

Monopoly

In class we played Monopoly, but there different rules! These rules were made to better simulate the class structure of America. It did a good job with the wealthy not only starting out with more money, but already having property. The had next to nothing and had really no chance of moving up. Though the game couldn't show the entire process of moving through the class system, it did a good job to show the difficulty. I mean life isn't just buying property and hoping people show up to pay you, but that would be one complicated simulation. I think this sort of simulation can be an eye opener to how different the wealthy are from the poor and all that is in between. It also shows the possibility of the middle class moving up in the middle class rankings. A person can move from middle-middle to upper-middle in a lifetime. This somewhat possible unlike lower to lower-middle or upper-middle to just upper. Wow that was a lot of hyphens. I do think through generations of hard work and smart decisions can allow people and families to move up in the ranks of society. This may be to long for some, but I think the longer something takes to do, the more worth while it actually is.