ethnicity...

so, i was in my health class that day

and we were given this question:

"why are the aspects of ethnicity and gender considered as a biological component of health?"

as u may or may not know

ethnicity AND gender are man made labels

biological terms are things like chromosomes and "sex"

ethnicity is where one group of people are labelled as the same group because they are offsprings of that specific group which has a more or less distinct living habit, food consumption, location of habitation...

gender, is when different "sex" is culturally/ socially labelled to different qualities. such as men are the workers and women are the house keepers. which also means one person is able to have the sex of one and the gender of another. (a homosexual man might be sexually classified as a male, yet it may be fulfilling the qual

ities of the female gender)

anyways...

since ethnicity and gender are not based off of biological aspects, why are they considered to be a biological agent when it comes to the assessment of health?

my classmates were unable to offer an answer to this

and the teacher did go through the answer i think but i do not recall it

yet i do have my own proposal to why this might be so... (only for the ethnicity part though)

*nerdy joyce comes in*

if,

we take the inuits for say

they are classified under the ethnicity of "inuits"

yet,

if we looked at the inuits maybe... 700 years ago

they live off hunting seal for example

and say the seal meat is the biggest portion in their meals (for example, this is just a logical guess, i did not do any researh on the inuits ahah)

this 700 yr ago group, due to their meal

has a relatively higher build up of cholestoral levels in their blood

and when they produce offsprings

they are born with a higher tolerance for cholestoral build up

and it goes on and on and on...

when the inuit groups we have now are somehow evolved biologically due to their practices in their ethnicity group

so therefore

ethnicity IS a biological factor.

does that make sense to u?

i dunno why im writting all this but its so interesting to me

and if you know why gender is considered as biological

PLEASE let me know

haha!

also,

i know my lovely boyfriend is reading my blog

and i know the last blog hurted ure feelings

though im glad i had this channel to express my feelings...

please stop worrying!

im deeply in love with u and i am not planning a life after you.

so please stop thinking too much and just love me back :]

love u lots u silly.

why are my previous pictures not showing up anymore?!

oh well...

kewyee :]