Race is a social classification according to gene differences. In the past, people don’t know how to face this difference in the right way. They enforced racial distinction by intimidation, violence, and terror. As Dorothy Roberts said, we might say that race is the expression of the mutually constitutive effects of media, science, the state, and economic markets. We can’t deny that there are still racial problems in our society. We indeed have cultural differences between different races. What is important for our generation is how we understand the information about race in the new media in the right way. Ancestors paid for partial equality and a proper sense of race with their blood and effort. We need to know the racial truth that race is an important element that contributes to multiculturalism and social diversity and think critically about the information online. We have made progress a lot. We now have a chance to study in a diverse community with people of different races. We make friends with them and share different perspectives, which is impossible in the past. All in all, social relations and changes depend on ourselves.
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I agree that it is not genetic but a social construct. I believe that the enforced racial distinction caused by intimidation, violence, and terror had been the reason for the cultural differences between races. These cultural differences and various stereotypes developed by these distinctions cause an illusion of separation and division. As those generations and generations go by the division gets greater because of the reinforced beliefs by the media, culture, and familial teachings.