I don't see why some people are ethnocentric. It has ALWAYS annoyed me how people boast about their ethnicity. And usually it's "subtle", or so people think they're portraying it that way. Does it really matter where you or your parents came from? There are countless others from wherever the place may be. Moreover, it's not like anyone can help where they were born. For God's sake there is only one race, and that's the HUMAN RACE. By the way, I got that from a poster that was hung up in my 11th grade math teacher's wall. Till this day it strikes a cord with me. I just read a post some guy wrote about how there isn't such a thing called the human race, and people who say that are just in denial about racism. AND THAT'S WHERE HE'S WRONG. Well basically, his whole post is full of crap. There is a SIGNIFICANT difference between the two, and like a replier said, it is scientifically proven that there isn't any correlation (although anyone with common sense and some deciency would know regardless of scentific evidence). Race is just a social construct created to separate ourselves and make us feel different from each other. Research upon research has shown that all our ancestors derived from Africa, and that our DNA is more like an African's than that of our own "race". Furthermore, we are all humans, no? Hence, we are of the HUMAN r a c e. Anyways, I've ranted about this in my head over and over again, and now it's finally time to put it down permenantly (at 3:15ish AM). I ABSOLUTELY hate it when people say stuff like, "Oh, those Americans wear shoes inside the house making the floor dirty." (One of the worst teachers I've had said that, and I won't mention where she's from because that is totally unnecessary). That pissed me off. She also said many other outrageous things. Ridiculously, it's not the only thing I've heard about "Americans". And you have NO IDEA how often people say stuff like that. Obviously in almost every case where people say "Americans" they refer to generally, white people. When I hear that I blow up inside. Even those who are born in the United States say that kind of stuff (obviously non-Caucasians). It's truly a mockery. Sometimes I just feel like screaming, "I'M AMERICAN". Recently, maybe just a couple of weeks ago, a friend said how white people aren't smart and that asians are because we study, study, study. This was befuddling and kind of upsetting. I told her, "No...there ARE smart, white people", but I doubt she listened. I'd be wrong to say we're not different. But just as we are much alike, we are completely different as individuals.