One will see an assortment of people. There is a medley of all shapes, sizes, colors, and prominent and lacking features. Each attribute defining the image recognition of that particular individual, yet it is mans instinct to place these people into categories called race. Race is defined as a local geographic or global human population distinguished as a more or less distinct group by genetically transmitted physical characteristics. In actuality, race is considered to be the color of ones skin and the geographic birthplace of their heritage. Recently the factors determining race have been narrowed down to a few choice characteristics based on social definitions. Science, not culture, should be the determining factor for defining race.
Race has been viewed as a cultural identification since the Age of Exploration. Beforehand, the European cultures did not interact with those of Africa or Asia. When Europeans started sailing and interacting with other cultures, they wanted an easy way to explain the difference in skin color. The Europeans did not want to be grouped with the Asians or Africans because they believed their cultural lifestyle was superior. So the Europeans created categorized several groups that we now call race. They created three main races from which all others races are digressions from: Caucaisian, Negroid, and Mongoloid. This explanation may have been sufficient for the Age of Exploration, but its unethical biased opinion is under attack by modern scientists.
Culture still influences race to this day. "Someone classified as "black" in the U.S., for instance, might be considered "white" in Brazil and "colored" (a category distinguished from both "black" and "white") in South Africa." This common problem of shade is a result of cultural differences. "The animosity between lighter- and darker-skinned Blacks, especially women, was a part of Black culture-and still is to this day.
