Race

This week we talked about how race does not exist. It is biological. We often categorize the people around us by their skin color. But you can't look at someone skin and assume their race. It is much more complex than that and you can be off by a lot. What I thought was really interesting was when we talked about how different people get more or less Vitamin D depending on where they live. The closer you are to the equator the more melanin you have making it easier for you to absorb Vitamin D and have darker skin. The people further away from the equator have it a little different. Because they don't get as much sunlight as people by the equator do, these people already have Vitamin D in their skin.