traying away from what society considers as normal gender roles. The male-female dichotomy in our culture is so essential to our way of life that those whose biology challenges it must be fixed and those who suggest that there are more than 2 sexes are considered either crazy or cultural heretics who are being disloyal to the most fundamental of biological facts (Newman 292). Do not label a person as male or female when they may be threatened by it.Race is an ever-prominent issue in ones society. Controversies focusing around race are commonly seen smeared across the front page of the newspaper or headlining on the evening news. Race is typically viewed as a category of people labeled and treated as similar because of common inborn biological traits, such as skin color; color and texture of hair; and shape of eyes, nose, or head (Newman 277). In other words, race is used as a means of ranking groups of people in terms of superiority of inferiority (Newman 277). Race can be characterized as a social category, rather than a biological one. Race is visible, but it is not chosen...(Fussell 469). Many people have more than one race. One may have up to 40 different races in them. It all depends on their traits and what the self believes in. Society tends to see race in categorical terms: black or white, red or yellow, brown or black (Fussell 118). Race is based on ones exterior looks, however ones culture goes beyond their physical appearance. Culture is what one is brought up with based on traditions.Ethnicity is tied into race and culture because ones ethnicity is the learned cultural heritage shared by a category of people (Newman 281). There are far more important indicators of your identity other than your skin color. These days, one must become knowledgeable of different cultures as well as their own, simply to get by. In the new American Structure there seem to be an almost infinite number of classes (Newman 475). But only a few of ...
