Throughout the entire world, we classify human beings under a category known as "Race". The race of a person varies depending on what country and continent they live in. Even though we classify people within this spectrum, but the truth is that race is not of skin color, but rather, a category of social construction. While society defines this as important, race has nothing in comparison to being human. Every individual human being around the world are of the biological species "Homo Sapiens", which is a Latin term that translates to "thinking person". Homo Sapiens originated in Africa at an estimate of two-hundred and fifty-thousand years ago.
The construction of society's categories in race are based upon differences in individuals that are physical, and are categorized by physical differences which were formed over thousands of years in residence within different regions in the world. The term known as "Race" was first used by Europeans in the late 1500's. However, in 1800's scientists who were European invented three different larger categories which they used to classify human beings. While many classifications were established over long points of time, those who claim that the categorizing known as race can be deceptive and cause discrimination from human being to human being. Many people wonder why the racial categories still exist, even though they are false. The answer is that a small amount of sociologists debate that the division of human beings into categories of race is mainly a tactic to give dominance of one individual over another.
To conclude this essay, less and less people will notice one another in the strict categories of race.
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