Holding on to comfort zones sometimes leads to fear, and hence the construction of comfort zone walls, that have racial and social implications in the following two ways:
Race and racism are, and have always been, fundamentally a matter of social construction, not biological or scientific definition.
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Society has used racism as a social construct and is able to transform it into a biological or even a scientific construct, then, there is the understanding that we become complacent with the biological perspective, even though it is not factually accurate.
Furthermore, the dynamics of race and the assumptions that accompany it, also create relational complications, as Jordan Winthrop explains that:
Black human beings were not only startling but extremely puzzling. The complexion of Negroes posed problems about its nature, especially its permanence and utility, its cause and origin, and its significance. Although these were rather separate questions, there was a pronounced tendency among Englishmen and other Europeans to formulate the problem in terms of causation alone, for if that nut could be cracked the other answers would be readily forthcoming; if the cause of ‘human blackness’ could be explained, then its nature and significance would follow.
In contrary to comfort zones, it was shown how the confusion of ‘human blackness’ was so puzzling that a wall of comfort was created, in that Englishmen and other Europeans posed problems towards the Negroes nature, cause and origin. So as stated before, I propose that we should rethink race as a social construct, instead of as a mere biological one. I believe that the notions of race are socially constructed, whether from past to present, and are in our educational system to even the current music that the younger generations love. however, it has been engrained within us to believe otherwise. For example, the report of Teresa J. Guess (University of Missouri-St. Louis: “The Social Construction of Whiteness: Racism by Intent, Racism by Consequence”) that references Berger and Luckmann states that:
Part of understanding the social construction of any universe is linked to understanding the social organization “that permits the definers to do their defining.”