According to Blauner the similarities in white and black perceptions are.. Whites focus historically on negative black behaviors; 86% disagreed with the Rodney King trial verdict, see race as an expression of racial conduct; don’t see it as a as some larger pattern of racism (institutionalized or not); see racism in the past (not the present!); that racism doesn’t exist anymore, see progress in the scale of integration; the size of the black middle …showed first 75 words of 718 total…

…showed last 75 words of 718 total…closer or father away from the equator of the Earth. It does not come in neat little packages with clear geographic limits. Neither does blood type. At the biological level, then, human variation exists, but human races do not. The idea of race can be cultural, and is , used to make prejudgments about people and to determine a person’s place in society, often without regard to that person’s individuality or their personal characteristics.