Race

According to the book, and in Western society race is considered a primary aspect of personal identity. Race a lot of times is referred to as skin color and a lot of times people refer to individuals by that. For example, someone would say black so so, to identify which so and so they mean instead of using their last name or any other ways of identification. I don't always think it's useful to classify people by their race but sometimes it makes it easy because everyone knows who you are talking about. I don't think it's necessarily right but people do it no matter what race that person is, so at least it has nothing to do with racism. Regarding the Census Bureau, I had no idea that you weren't able to check more than one race on it. I definitely think you should be able to check multiple races because we are starting to date outside our race and a lot of people are mixed races. In a couple of years there isn't going to be many people that are just one race because we are all slowly starting to mix together.