Well, in AIS we've been talking about race. And one of my teachers put on the board: white, black (african-american), red (native american), yellow (asian), and brown (Indian/South American). Now this was how everyone catagorized each other. How is that right? How do you know how someone identifies themselves? I guess that it is human nature to try and put everything into a neat little box. But rarely does anything do that. And this goes on everyday. A good example of this is high school. Everyone (well, almost everyone) tries to fit in to one group. And these people usually have something in common; like the "jocks" who have good athletic skills. Or the "nerds" who are very smart. We all try and box everyone away and label them.
What happens once we are out of high school, can we still use these generic groupings? How should people define each other? Should we even try? I don't think we should group people because these are how tensions are created (think of world relations). It just isn't possible to group people so widely. Everyone is different, every people is different.
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