Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Wed, May 26 2004
Do You Look Like Your Race? How Do You Know You Do (Or Don't)?
I'm notoriously bad at this sort of thing, which may explain why I've never understood racism very well. And in this day and age, a lot of people have an ancestry painted with a broad brush, so identifying people by looking at individual things such as skin tone and eye shape doesn't really make a lot of sense. It's fun trying to figure out someone's race by looking at their face, but only in the same sense that it's fun trying to figure out someone's occupation by looking at their hands. It's amusing, but it's only a tiny piece of a very complicated puzzle. A tip of the Stetson goes to moleskinerie for the link.
posted at: 06:45 | category: /Miscellaneous | link to this entry
I'm notoriously bad at this sort of thing, which may explain why I've never understood racism very well. And in this day and age, a lot of people have an ancestry painted with a broad brush, so identifying people by looking at individual things such as skin tone and eye shape doesn't really make a lot of sense. It's fun trying to figure out someone's race by looking at their face, but only in the same sense that it's fun trying to figure out someone's occupation by looking at their hands. It's amusing, but it's only a tiny piece of a very complicated puzzle. A tip of the Stetson goes to moleskinerie for the link.
posted at: 06:45 | category: /Miscellaneous | link to this entry
