different cultures classify physical differences in different ways. We classify these differences as race, but there is no such thing as race. Race is just a myth. Americans believe that Asians, blacks, Hispanics, and whites constitute biological entities called races, but it is a matter of cultural interest rather than scientific substance. This idea tells more about our culture rather than our species (251).

Race is a social construction that people were born into. We then classify different races with "innate, biologically based different intellects, temperaments, and characters" (Rothenberg 8). To some people racial classification is "natural". A possible definition of race is through which path of social construction the society takes. Race is an idea that we created ourselves through social construction to classify the physical differences and cultural differences that we each have from our perspectives.

From infancy, human beings learn to see small differences in the faces of those around them. A baby would mostly see the faces of the parents, family members, relatives, and close friend

Malik, Kenan. The Meaning of Race. New York: New York UP, 1996.

Fish, Jeffrey. "Mixed Blood." Conformity and Conflict.10 (2000): 250-260.

In a study by Dr. Fish, Brazilians have a different social construction of race or classification of race. Instead of race they call it types. They classify by physical appearances. They have two classifications for "white". One named loura, meaning "whiter than white", and the other being branca, meaning just "white". On the other hand America's description of a branca is the same as a Hispanics despite the fact that they speak Portuguese. The Brazilian culture believes that there are enough characteristics to be considered "white" and Americans see the branca as a Hispanic due to the fact that they have Hispanic characteristics or their parents were Hispanics. Another classification is a morena. Brazilians think that in America morena is classified as a "brunette." They are surprised to find out that a "brunette" is consider "white" and a morena is not. In America, morena can be either Hispanic or "black." The last two categories are mulata and preta. A mulata looks like a morena and preta looks like a mulata. These two classifications in America's society would be considered "black" (Fish 257). This is an example of how other cultures execute their classification. A Brazilian with a family of five can actually be classified into five different race groups. In the United States, a family with one parent "nonwhite" would make the whole family "nonwhite" with the exception of the other parent. How can this be when we all have the same ancestors?

s of the family. As a "black" baby he/she would tend to see a much more variety of "blacks" faces than the faces of "whites" and visa versa for a "white" baby (Fish 256). At this point the babies do not know anything about race, but this is wher

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