Categorizing People

One thing that I often wonder, is if, as a society, we will ever be able to move past categorizing people based on their physical appearances. Is this really an appropriate way to group people? Should we be able to assign meaning to a group of people based on their appearance and what we think the cultural behavior for that particular group may be?

Personally, I feel that our society is stuck on judging people based on their appearance. I think it is a very ambitious goal to assume that we will one day be able to move past this. I don't necessarily think that it is appropriate to assign cultural meanings to someone based on their physical appearance, but I feel that it is something that we all do. This goes hand in hand with stereotyping people. Despite the fact that we may be highly inaccurate, it is something that we do on a regular basis. I think that because people in this world are so inter-racially mixed that it is hard to assign cultural meaning to one's physical appearance. I wish that there was a way to show everyone in society that this is not an appropriate way to group people, but at the same time it is kind of human nature.