What Race Are We?

Today, race is more of an explanation for cultural differences between different populations of people. Despite all of us being genetically similar, why are we all classified into races?  Is race even a legitimate way of classifying people? After all, we were the ones who set the boundaries.

What makes everyone different are environmental factors such as geography and culture.  After living in a place for quite some time, people begin to have specific changes to adapt to that area. In fact, race was used to categorize people based on different locations.  Based off of where someone was from, he/she would be placed in that race.

Now comes the problem with genetics deciding race.  This isn't possible, since everyone is genetically the same.  Just because black people can get sickle cell and whites can't doesn't mean they can be put into different categories.  People can have different skin color, eye color, hair texture, nose length, and others but these simple differences aren't enough to put everyone into separate sections.

The fact is, everyone is becoming more and more similar.  With immigration, more people have never been to their ancestor's countries or have known their culture and heritage. Despite my parents growing up in China, I don't know a whole lot Chinese culture.  But this difference doesn't separate us; we are still the same family and value the same things.  So what race does this make me?  I believe the answer to that is the "Human" race.