"11 Subtle Signs You Need New Friends, Because You Deserve The Best People In Your Life" - https://www.bustle.com/p/11-subtle-signs-you-need-new-friends-because-you-deserve-the-best-people-in-your-life-58927 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTvzmm8h_OU

When I was little I lived in Puerto Rico, and no one ever told me I was NOT Puerto Rican...until one day...... "Race: Human". The Un-Science of Race Categories" TEDTalk video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtG9Z0Hquuc ________________________________________________________ What is the difference between Race and Ethnicity? I don't exactly resonate with the description of "ethnicity" in this video, but it is decent enough to start in understanding race and ethnicity. "Race, Ethnicity, Nationality and Jellybeans" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqV3CK6QfcU ________________________________________________________ From PBS: Race - The Power of Illusion "Race is a modern idea - it hasn't always been with us. In ancient times, language, religion, status, and class distinctions were more important than physical appearance. In America, a set of specific historical circumstances led to the world's first race-based slave system. The concept of race did not originate with science. On the contrary, science emerged in the late 18th century and helped validate existing racial ideas...Ideas and definitions of race have changed over time, depending on social and political climate. .. ( http://www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_03-godeeper.htm ) "Race as a Social Construct" "There is nothing absolute or real about social constructions in the same way as there is something absolute and real about rocks, rivers, mountains...For example, the existence of a mountain is not contingent on collective acceptance, imposition, or agreement. A mountain will exist regardless of people thinking, agreeing or accepting that it does exist. Unlike a mountain, the existence of race requires that people collectively agree and accept that it does exist. Franz Boas,...supports this view of race best in his work Race, Language, and Culture where he observes that there is nothing biologically real about race. There is nothing that we have identified as race that exists apart from our collective agreement, acceptance, and imposition of its existence...Race, although it does not exist in the world in any ontologically objective way, it still is real in society (as opposed to nature). Race is a social construction that has real consequences and effects." ( https://anthropology.net/2008/10/01/race-as-a-social-construct/) "The Social Construction of Race" https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/05/the-social-construction-of-race/275974/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq0LCx9c5t8