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Our discussion in class on Friday was very interesting. Not only did it clear up the "biological" side of race interpretation but it made it clear that the definitions for race, ethnicity, nationality, and many other ways of classification were unclear. What was the most interesting thing was when discussing the article published in the New York Times. Why it was published without any evidence and the fact that a logger was cited seemed to leave me uninterested in the rest of the article.

Another interesting point was made by Wil when he mentioned that a lot of people who claim to know "who they are" often times are wrong in identifying where their roots lie. My parents are from the Caribbean and I would consider myself African American, though my culture, ethnicity, and nationality may all be different. Am I really African American? If so aren't we all since we all came from there at one point in time?