Race, real or not?

     For the past couple of days we have been watching a documentary on wether or not race is real. I think that this is a very interesting theory. Since grade school I have been learning that race is a part of society and that it is very much a real thing. When we learn about american history, we are taught that slaves were inferior because they were black. Their race was inferior to whites. History class is one of many examples of how our society pushes race upon kids that are growing up. Because I have been learning that race is a very real thing for the majority of my life, it is still a very new idea to me that race us not real, and honestly I still can not decided if I believe that race is not real. The documentary on race in america talks about how from a biological point of view race can not exist, yet from a social and cultural level race is extremely real. I have come to a conclusion that this is an idea that I can agree with. It makes sense to me that race can not be real from a biological point of view because are bodies are all the same and other than physical characteristics there is no difference between people of different skin colors. However I also think that for now race is a big part of our every day social and cultural lives. I say for now because the documentry also brings up the idea that race is slowly going away. As the world becomes more diverse Racism is slowly disappearing, however because our brains are ingrained with this idea of race from a young age it is hard to get ride of the idea that race does not exist. Some people even refuse to believe that race does not exist because it is part of there social beliefs.