Mixed Blood

When I first read the title for todays reading, I had no idea what it was going to be about. Now after reading it, i can understand what mixed blood is in reference to. One main sentence that stood out to me was in the beginning paragraph, "In America, a person's race is determined not by how he or she looks, but by his or her heritage." This article take a look at way two nations view "race." Jeffery Fish observed the U.S. and Brazil. Do all anthropologists believe that race is a U.S constructed idea? What is race? Is it necessary to name a group of people by the word "race." Race sounds almost like a harsh word. Does race imply to heritage and culture or to skin color. Most people I hear speaking of "racism" base their assumptions on skin color. Is skin color just the way people identify a culture of people. Then again I hear people called by their "name" that somehow has been given to them, Asian, Latino, and American. Race is a very touchy subject, especially when speaking of the awful terms of racism. This whole world is not the same, there are millions of people, and if we were all the same, there were never be any diversity or the chance to learn and travel for cultural reasons.