Importance of Racism

This whole week in class we've been discussing racism and how it shapes our culture.  As a society it is so interesting to see different categories we place groups of people into based on race and ethnicity.  In some ways this can alter requirements for job positions, educational standards, and the overall income that that person could attain based on race.  I think that our society is working very hard to avoid racial issues and that we are determined to be one big nation working together trying to alter issues in society.  It's was so interesting to see how our society defines ceratin races compared to other parts of the world that may have different names and labels for ceratin groups of people.  I think what people need to understand about race is that it truly doesn't exist biologiacally.  It's a force that's shaped throughout our culture that had been influenced to the rest of society.  People need to create their own conclusions before judging each other by races.