RACE AND YOUR COMMUNITY

Race and Your Community

Race and Your Community

Abstract

This paper discusses and analyzes social connections with an aim on racism and the ideas that augment the latter. In specific, I will discuss the social persona theory utilizing my personal familiarity as a key point in giving solid demonstrations. The period communal persona is a concept in social psychology that characterizes the "we" facet of an individual's self-concept. Together with the self-concept, our social persona is the cause for why persons define themselves in assemblies or congregations while sustaining their social identity.

Race and Your Community

Introduction

Often times, we only observe ourselves as distinct when we are enclosed by persons who are homogeneous, be it due to age, gender and most significantly hue. Growing up as a child, being white was a topic for me and for the rest of the children of my age. Since most of the children living near by were black. It was those persons who were white or Asian that had a more colorful life, a less perplexing. Though the end of the slave trade conveyed African American individuals a chance to ascend in that communal ladder that only whites once had access to, for a while we considered that racism would finally be swabbed out absolutely in this world. Apparently, we talked too soon.

Discussion

Upon examining the constituents of the community where I reside, I directly observed the likenesses and differences that we had in terms of physicality. Actually I live on groundwork an infantry community. Though gender and age is very much prominent in analyzing my young person community dwellers, the hue of the skin was the one that I first looked into without consciously doing so. More significantly, I rarely glimpsed the vastness in number of people but I paid importance to the couple of whites in the community. It was not because I had something against them from the get proceeded but it was intriguing to see that the majority of the people were at a smaller grade then the whites. On the infantry housing the distinct the groups by grade in the service.

I directly observe that the most of the recruited fighters were local people and most of the agent's fighters were white. To me it was no different than dwelling out-of-doors the gates of the groundwork. I remember one time when I happen to visit a white community and I abruptly sensed out of location. I sensed as though I was being analyzed so methodically and all I could believe about was to just depart the location the instant that I was finished with my enterprise. Arrive to believe of it, this is likely what the white people of my community sensed at some issue (or perhaps a lot of times) since they are outnumbered by young people in this community of infantry housing. (Richards, 2001)

Turner (Myers, 2005) proposed the social persona theory to interpret our knowledge of "we-ness" in groups. According to Turner and Tajfel (as cited by Myers, 2005), their ...