Can it be just an illusion?

In the film “race: the power of illusion, episode 1,” microbiologist Pilar Ossorio mentions that even though there is a difference between races for the simple fact of how one looks, but in reality there is no genetic difference in races.  For example, Goodman said, “ Geography is the better way to explain that more than race anything else. There can be accumulations of genes in one place in the glove and not another.” Which mean that simply because the skin color is different it does not have anything of how humans are biologically constructed. What determines what you are different is where you live. For example, when the film was talking about the places where malaria was common, the sickling gene was selected. Meaning that everything has to do with the location where one is located. The genetics findings by Richard lewentini’s findings “because of our history of moving, mating, and mixing, most human variation, especially that of complex traits.”  What this mean is that because the history of people life’s and how the activities that one does is what can be found in humans all kind of people no matter the color. 

            My racial identity is Hispanic and I have always been proud of that because of the culture that comes with it. I myself not only see myself as a Hispanic, society sees me as a Hispanic and I have embraced that since the day I was born. But after all we Hispanic people might not be as different to other “races.” The film gives a good explanation in showing that people might have similar genetics to other human beings around the world. Reason being that color is not what defines people and the genetic that they have, but the location of where one lives and how one adapts to it, that’s what makes people who they are. Society is what sets up pyramids, which identify people by, establishing race to everyone when they are born.

            The evidence of how races are not different in genetics from one another has not changed my mind one bit of how I think of my racial identity. The reason being that racial identities are created by society. This racial identity has presented problems for the minority, problems for example like, economically. Minorities for example myself being a Hispanic male would fewer resources to get out of low class employment. But this evidence simply tells me that people will always see each other as different not knowing that they might have more similarities then what they think. Because peoples mitochondrial DNA, because of migration from earlier non-modern humans. Society will not treat people differently for just a study that was done. People will treat each other the same way because history of the world has been writing with inequality, because people are judged by the color of their skin not by genetics. People should be treated as human beings not as treated not the color of their skin. People should be more colorblind. But I believe that racial identities will exist for as long as there is life in planet Earth.

http://newsreel.org/transcripts/race1.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/22/science/do-races-differ-not-really-genes-show.html