Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Results On The Sorting People Quiz

That little quiz I just took was hard as could be! I literally only put three of the pictures in the right groups. "Appearance doesn't always tell you about someone's ancestry or self-identity. It's hard to make accurate predictions based on appearance alone"---the website put this in the box with my quiz results, I agree one thousand percent. I can't believe all those awful 1-8 facts we were supposed to take notes on. From what I gather, "race" is practically fake, it's like, we inveeented the thing. I don't know why people would put any stock into it at all. I happen to know a little bitty bit about Rwanda and the civil war they fought was one of the saddest things I've ever heard---the people that invaded their country, like, MADE UP the two groups Hutus and Tutsis (sp?), they didn't even exist! They had one of those groups in charge then when they were leaving the country they left the ooother group in charge, and the country fell to pieces. Seriously, they fought over something that wasn't even real :( I think it's ridiculous, but the facts on the website are very very useful to know and could probably help some people get racism out of their hearts, especially when sooo much of it I think probably comes from "sheltered" experiences and lack of exposureee to things in the world and knowledge, stuff like that.