As I was watching the video “A Conversation with Asian Americans on Race.”It made me think that in American society, the majority of Americans are white. Americans of other skin colors, such as Asian Americans, Latinx Americans and African Americans, will be labeled in some negative connotation words, while Americans with only white skin will be called Americans directly. It definitely makes me uncomfortable that people still face discrimination and receive unfair treatment based on the color of their skin. Also, in the “A Conversation with Asian Americans on Race” all of the stories involved had depiction of their race just by someone analyzing or glimpsing at an Asian’s voice, skin color, attire, and culture. The “Race: The Power of an Illusion” makes some very good points. Unlike what people in history assume that people of different races are fundamentally different, all humans are in fact fundamentally extremely similar. Obviously race is a social construct because it seems that you need to be the “right” race, meaning not anything darker than the clouds in the sky to be an American. For instance, in the documentary science was used to back up or “justify” the superiority of whites over every other race by comparing skull and brain sizes. This instance shows how enslaved Africans were really treated and shown to whites. Even though, we have “slightly” change for the better according to race, more needs to be done so that racism can not exist at all in America.
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Hi I totally agree with the fact that America needs to Come up with something so that racism doesn’t exist.It has been several decades with immigrant families raising their American born children and still go through racial harassment, even after slavery being abolished.
I agree with how when people think of “American” they usually mean white Americans. I believe that propaganda plays a role into why people think that, because I’ve seen in various forms of propaganda such as on posters or in movies from the past, American’s are always portrayed as white, but rarely ever as a person of color. The understanding of what an American truly is should not just be that an American is someone who is white, because that’s simply not true. Americans come in all races, and saying only white Americans are true Americans is ignorant and invalidates people of color Americans.
Hey Kai,
That is an interesting point you bring up because I never thought of it that way. Based on my own experience I always thought America was for all so in my head everyone who lives in America is American. And yes, that is definitely true. For the most part, we’re classified by different things but we’re all under the same title “Human Race”.