Race/Identity

 One class where the concept of race and identity was framed was when I took an Anthropology course for my connections requirement. This class was very interesting to me and the professor was pretty cool. One topic we discussed was how race was a social construct. We also discussed the biology of it too and watched a study. In the study the teacher asked his students who they thought theyd be more closely related to just by looking around the room, most of the students picked  another person that physicallly resembled them. The teacher more or less disproved them by comparing their DNA's together showing that many kids were actually more closely related to other students who did not resemble them at all. From there the story of Elizabethe Warren came up about her identifying as Native American, her blood proved that to be true but the council that the indigenous leaders sit on also pointed out that since customs and traditions and language are not practiced they did not fully recognize her.  This got me thinking as someone who is mixed.  I am hispanic and white, but have no connections to customs, traditions, and language so based on what the council determined I would not be able to claim being hispanic but also i am not physically white, so i cant really claim white either. So it got me thinking about where I fall in my own racial identity. I came to the conclusion that I (and each of us) can determine our identities for our selves and if we want to go and claim our heritages then we can do that, if we want to learn and experience these sort of things then we can. We hold all of the tools that allow us to do this. I gets me thinking about where I belong in this world and what my current experience is now and what i want my future experience to be, I dont have all these answers yet but we figure these things out as we go i think.