Extra Credit: Race: the power of an illusion

What is "race?" Race is one topic where we all think we're experts. Yet you can ask 10 people to define race or name "the races," and you're likely to get 10 different answers.  I as one those people didn't know the real true about race into in class we started to talk about that topic, what I discovered was that most of our common assumptions about race are wrong; one of those assumptions is that race it originated biologically. The division of people into distinct categories such as white, black, yellow people has become so widely accepted and so deeply rooted in our society that most people would not think to question its veracity.  In the video “Race the power of an illusion” show us the theory of race originated by biology, tracing the idea back to its origin in the 19th century. In the first part of the video: The differences between us, tell us that we have being using visual differences such as skin color, hair color, eye shape, to classified people into two or three groups; groups that we called races. Most of us assume that we can identify someone by just looking at them, that isn't necessary to look at their genes because it will be obvious from what race they are, an example someone with small eyes would be likely classified as a Chinese race, but what if that person is Korean? In this video they show us an experiment with various students where they explored the biology of a human variations, they compared they skin colors and type of blood to see their genetic similarities and differences. The students began the workshop with the same assumptions that most of us have, we use to think that we are genetically more similar to those who look alike in the outside to those who have different characteristics such as skin color. I learn that we have more similarities genetically speaking when we compare our genes to different people, example a white person would have more similarities with a black person than two people with the same skin color.In the second part of the video: the story we tell; the video start with the phrase “All man are created equal” by Thomas Jefferson this quotation had being a hot point through many years in the United States, it was created on a time where the slavery exited, where man were captives which didn't have the rights to their own life and much less to property. The way in which the American society classified unequal resources based on skin color and national origins was through “race”, the word created for their own benefits, which with the time become racism, which become segregation which become stereotype. “Race is not how you look but how the people with more power decide how you look”
In the third part of the video: “The House We Live in” Asks, if race is not biology, what is it? This episode uncovers how race resides not in nature but in politics, economics and culture. It reveals how our social institutions "make" race by disproportionately channeling resources, power, status and wealth to white people. It focuses not on individual attitudes and behaviors but on the role that our institutions and public policies play in shaping life opportunities and one's ability to accumulate wealth.  The Government housing programs and policies helped generate much of the wealth that so many white American families enjoy today. By lowering down payment requirements and extending the term of home loans from 5 to 30 years, revolutionary New Deal programs like the Federal Housing Administration made it possible for millions of average Americans to own a home for the first time. Those who were able to purchase homes saw their property values fall since 80% of the market, the white population, refused to buy in their neighborhoods, as the whites left, all the grocery stores and services and many of these communities fell into a cycle of decline.If race doesn't exists that it man-made why we do still being racist and discriminate others by the type of “race”?