Posting by Hyojeong Hwangbo(황보효정)_W10

1. Race and Ethnicity

Summary:

Race classifies people according to their physical characteristics.

Ethnicity refers to social characteristics that share cultural characteristics.

The criteria for classifying ethnic are nationality, tribe, religious faith, shared language, shared culture, and shared traditions.

Race is defined biologically.

Skin color, hair color, etc is a standard for classifying races.

From the beginning, the United States has classified races into various categories.

Classifying races was also used to label the slaves.

Brazilian races are divided into five categories according to their skin color: white, black, pardoor (brown), yellow, and Indigenous.

There is much controversy about the definition of race.

Prejudice means making a preliminary judgment about something.

Bias and prejudice have stereotypes that can lead to negative results.

Racism is an act of discrimination based on race, with negative stereotypes.

Racial discrimination appears in a variety of forms.

Racial discrimination is stronger for minority groups.

As a result, sometimes minority groups move to dominant groups.

Opinion:

It was good to know how race and ethnicity are distinguished through this data.

And I was able to build up a lot of knowledge about how to distinguish races in each country.

I also felt the severity of racial discrimination through this material.

I hope that racial discrimination in the world disappears.

Question:

What is the status of racial discrimination in Korea?

And I wonder that how can we eliminate racism.

Reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_South_Korea

2. gender

Summary:

Sociologists classify gender and sex differently.

Gender is distinguished on the basis of masculine and feminine behavior.

Sex is classified according to genes and biological factors.

Cis sex / gender people is a person with a gender that conforms to existing social notions.

Trans sex / gender people are people who do not follow the existing notion of gender.

Men and women have physical and mental differences and life expectancy is different.

Men and women also differ in terms of employment and wages.

In the past, the level of education was much higher for males than females.

In recent years, however, the education level of women has become very high.

But still no real equality was achieved.

Sexism means discrimination against voting rights, media, and income according to gender.

Depending on the gender, socialization proceeds differently, which can instill stereotypes about gender in the process of growth.

Opinion:

Through this data, I learned how to distinguish between gender and sex.

And I realized that sexism happens in more fields than I thought.

I hope that the issue of sex discrimination in society as a whole will be resolved so that an equality era in which both men and women are not discriminated by sex will come.

Question:

Sex discrimination occurs throughout society.

What are examples of gender discrimination that do not appear in this data?

Reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_inequality_in_South_Korea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_inequality