Gray Matter, The Stuff That Really Matters, By Ben Carson

There is no such a thing like race. From years ago, race is just man made due to the physical look, but biologically we all are the same. In fact, All human being shares 99.9 percent of the same DNA. Also, our body systems function similarly. Race is just a skin color and nothing else. Many years ago, people had negative views of other race folks. There were many racial discrimination and hatred between one race to another, but the majority of those ideas changed. A person should not be judged by physical look, but should be judged by his/her internal appearances. Unfortunately, in this twenty first century, people are still divided by their physical appearance. Additionally, race is not the only force that separated us from one another,
In the book America Now, Ben Carson, a former neurosurgeon has written an essay “Gray Matter, the Stuff That Really Matters”, according to Carson, “in an episode of “The Twilight Zone” many years ago, a very beautiful and smart young woman was regarded as unsuitable for society. It was revealed at the end of the episode that everyone else was quite ugly, which, for that society, was the norm” (159). Similarly, when I was in high school some of my class-mates thought I was different from them just because I was born in a different country and my mother tongue was different from them. Some of my classmates said to me to go back to my own country. As a time went, I started learning that all people from the same racial group are not the same because some students thought I was different from them and some didn’t. For me, It does not matter about the way anyone look, but respecting each other and what matter is his or her
For example, most of the people believe that Asian students are smart in math which is not true. Some of the Asian students could be smart in math and some could not. Being Asian or any other ethnic group does not make us smart, but our hard work does. We often assume that everyone has to see the world as we do. We want everyone to think same, but the fact is that we all are different and that is what makes us unique. As Carson says, “I am very grateful that God gave us racial variety. Who would want to go to the National Zoo if every animal was a Thompson’s gazelle? Who would visit if every fish was a goldfish? Who would want to get up in the morning if everybody looked exactly like them?” (159). We should never come to the conclusion about anyone just by peeking his/her physical appearance. We need to know her/him personally to know his or her characters. Being different in color is just a part of being human. Personally, I am from a different culture and when I came to the United States of America, everything was new to me. I had to learn about new culture which was interesting. Reality, in every culture there are something in common. The most important, we all are human being and we all have feelings. We all are living our life in the same way. For example, we all have to work in order to survive and we all need to