Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Can You Tell Somebody's Race by Looking at Them?

Click on the link below and do the activity and discuss what you thought of it.

http://www.pbs.org/race/002_SortingPeople/002_00-home.htm

21 comments:

  1. i dont think so . you have no idea what there culture is and were they come from. they may be difent colored but who nos were they were raised

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    1. agreed. i meen cultures have joined with other cultures alot in the past years and they keep combining for a long time.

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  2. People from different cultures vary a ton. You could never tell just by looking at them.

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  3. Judging by this activity you cannot be 100% sure of somebody's ethnicity. A lot of people looked very similar across all races. I am not shocked, but I am a little surprised.

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  4. No you cannot. A lot of people just assume and judge. I don't think that's right.

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    1. Right i dont think thats right either

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    2. Well, I think it's fair to take a guess. That's what we just did on this quiz! Certainly if one were to make generalization and have prejudice over an assumed race, that is not right, but what's wrong with guessing?

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  5. You can never tell what someones race is just by looking at them unless they had like a sticker on that said it. other wise you can't tell.

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  6. you can tell from some things, but yet if you don't know them you have no idea what their culture is and how they were raised.

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  7. For the most part you can tell what race they are

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  8. some races are easier to tell from others but what if there mixed races then you really cant tell from the first sight

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  9. I certainly cannot! This test was borderline impossible! I was struggling big time!

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  10. yeah I can sometimes tell a race but I have cousins that have a Mexican father and they look just like normal white people.

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  11. Sometimes you can,but not all the time everyone thinks im mexican when i get really dark in the summer time . My boyfriend is whiter then me an he's mexican.

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  12. This was really interesting and difficult. It has a really good point. It is very hard to determine someone's race by just looking at them and this proves it.

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  13. Race is sometimes easy to tell but the more they "mix" the more difficult it gets to tell what race they are.

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  14. No you can guess but you really dont know !!!

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  15. you cant judge a book by its cover and neather can you judge soomeones race just by looking at them

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  16. No you cannot i mean you may get the obvious color of there skin but you surely don't know if they are mix or something like that

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  17. You never know where someone comes from or what their cultural background is. There are so many different races and with that there's mixed races.

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  18. When I did this I had a lot of them wrong. It is defiantly hard to tell what some peoples race is just by looking at them

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