Social Ignorance

   In this day in age, the youth that is being brought up follow in the footsteps of their parents, piers, teachers, and media influences. Our ancestor's traditions, cultures, and moral values have been lost through generations under constant external influences. Few people as they grow up actually even know of their historical background and even those who do most likely do not practice their cultural traditions. Without true knowledge of our ancestry and culture how can we embrace our ethnicity our race. People do not know what their true race is because of lack of knowledge.
   In today's society people see race as the color of your skin or where you're from but it goes much deeper than that. Your race is your past your ancestral genes that make up who you are not the color of your skin. People connect race with all types of stereotypes which leaves the next generations following after your bad influences. I see the definition of race today as- a means to describe, categorize, and separate the world's people. This is a shame that the world has come to this point in life where we are judged by the color of our skin and by where we are from but not by what we have done and contributed.
   How we see race and use it, it is just another word for hate. Hate against someone you don't know, someone you never even met before which is taught through the people around you. Stereotypes, bullying, discrimination, isolation, prejudgment, RACE..... all a form of hate, can all be linked to racism. Today we see racism as blacks against whites but it goes way deeper than this it includes almost every race and is taught by mainly fear. We fear of a terrorist attack and we try to single out a single group of people to make us feel better but everyone could be a terrorist. This shows that today people are too ignorant to see past color, religion, and origin but instead go with the easiest option, one that I see as pure hate.
   Sure there are other things like sexism that occurs with racism but it only differs the treatment slightly. For instance, if two African Americans, one male one female, went out for a job interview the male would be judged more harshly but most likely get the job because sexism just adds to hate that is already unknowingly possessed by a person. A female would be let down easy but would have to go find another job to apply for. On the other hand, a female has worse stereotypes than a male of any race when it comes to racism. A black woman is seen as ghetto, a blonde white woman seen as extremely stupid and bourgeois and so on but there are countless people that go against this stereotype but still people are too ignorant to see this and continue to label women.
   As long as people stay ignorant and refuse to see past their own beliefs, if you can even call it their own, we will still be separated as a people. We will always be seen as different from one another rather than just being human. The day we stop caring for one another is the day we lose our humanity and this day has come far to long ago. In order for us as a people to finally be equal we must look past one anothers skin color, origin, sex, sexual orientation, lives, and abilities and judge only by the content of our characters.