The Race VS. Nationality Issue

According to Edurdo Bonilla-Silva article we read, he argues that “races exist as a social phenomenon wherever a racial structure is in place – that is, wherever there are social, political and ideological practices that produce differential status between racialized social groups”. To me, this means that we, all the people, create the idea of race that people compares one to another. It is a “social phenomenon” because the society began with this issue. People act differently by following their own “racialized social group”

The race problem still exists in the American's society. Even thought this problem started approximately fifty years ago. I think America is a strange country where the people are originated from different part of the world. It is interesting to me how I distinguished myself between race and nationality. For me, people looks at me and would think that I am a 100% Asian and that they will never think that I am an American, because of my facial appearance. Lawfully, I am considered to be an American because I was naturalized to become an American as my nationality. In America, citizens are either natural born in the America’s land or naturalized to become an American. In my perspective, I don’t think there is a pure “American” person (other than the Native Americans). The reasons I said that is because nationality represents ourselves officially based on the law, but are we really belong to that nationality? This question is still an important and complicate concept for us to discover and to understand what a true “American” is.