The use of language of racial identity has a big impact on in the thoughts and actions of people in our society now and will have a big impact in the future as well if the language doesn't change. Racial identity is something that is always going to be there, I think that people are used to doing it I know that I do it. It's like judging a book by its cover, which makes people think they are a certain thing when they can be something else. I know that if I were to see someone on the street with white skin I would automatically think they are white, without questioning whether they can be any other race. That is what happens all the time and I don't think it will change. This can lead to a few things, racism, something like the holocaust, and stereotypes of all races.
Racism is something that will always be there and racial language will be one of the main factors to it. Back in the times of slavery anyone with dark skin was looked at as black and they were worthless, they were just slaves. There was no question on whether they had a different race in them who knows, many of those slave could have white descendants therefore making them part white, all that was seen about them was their skin. If the present time was a time where there were slaves it would be the same situation. racism now is not at bad as it used to be but it is there and the people can be racist to any race not just blacks, if someone doesn't like blacks and they see someone who they think is just black it can lead to many things, racial comments, violence, harassment. These things can happen to all races and it is because of the separation or races, or the language of racial identity. The classification of certain people to be of a certain racial group like the holocaust.
The people who suffered in the holocaust where subject the language of racial identity. Hitler wanted only perfect Germans but it's not like he knew the bloodlines of all the people he thought to be perfect, also the bloodlines of the Jews they could have had many other races in their blood but that was not acknowledged, they were classified as Jews and they were NOT German so they were not looked as anything else. Some of the ways that people were known as Jews was by the way that they look, people said they knew them by their big noses. That is the language of Racial identity the Germans looked at them and that is how they caught some of them by the way that they looked. Just how people classify people now by the way they look their skin, or facial features. The way that people look lead to stereotypes that are made by others.
Stereotypes are things that people are looked on upon as according to what others in their race have done. Many people stereotype and that is by the way that people look or act. They are seen as something but they may not be that. Minorities are seen as, gang members, killers,thieves, and many other things. Not everyone is something just because a lot of the people that are their race is that. Anyone can be a murderer or any of all of those bad things, that minorities are "known" for. Nobody ever knows what anyone truly is just by the way that they look they might think they do but they don't. Language of racial identity will always be in our society.
I don't think that can really be changed people look different that's why there are all of these different races. It won't go away because there are differences to everyone and we can't all be looked at as the same, we can't just put behind the way people look at the different races or how people are classified.
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