Kassandra Abouzeid Professor Boesch November 24, 2013 Human/Nature

Race Excel Assignment Part A: The pie chart is the only reasonable graph in my opinion due to the accuracy that it gives with percentages and the side-by-side comparison of these percentages. The entire population and all the various races are displayed in this chart. A pie chart is a circular chart that is divided into sectors based on a numerical format of data, the majority of the time it represents percentages in a certain pool or population.

Racial Diversity by Percent

0% 5% 1% 13% 6%

75%

White American Indian and Alaska Native Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander

Black or African American Asian Some Other Race

In the pie chart above representing all the different races in the world and their percent, it is obvious that the majority of the population is classified as white or Caucasian reaching 75% of the population. Keep in mind that Caucasian is a race that contains various cultures and populations within itself, such as European, North Africa (Middle Eastern), and Western, Central and South Asia. The classification has no regards to skin tone. Bar graphs are a graphical display of data using bars to show the comparison of more than one (in this case) race and to what amount (in integers) they reach. In the graph below, we are displaying the amount of people of certain or different races using whole numbers.

Amount of People in Different Races

250,000,000

200,000,000

150,000,000

100,000,000

50,000,000

0 White Black or African American Indian American and Alaska Native Asian Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander Some Other Race

In my own opinion, with a data set with this broad and large of numbers a bar graph really gives a visual representation of what it is like in the real world every day and how the nation is extremely diverse. But it also shows that there are not very many of the other races there is obvious and extreme difference in numbers when comparing how many people of the

white race there is in this country compared to how many people of other races there are. Line graphs are very common in math to help with interpreting and solving linear functions, they are very good at showing a difference in numbers or a growth or decay over a certain amount of time. I chose to use a line graph because it would be most beneficial when comparing numbers over a certain amount of years (1900-1990). To help us determine whether there was significant growth over time in the data we plot the number of people there are every ten years. A MO UNT O F DI VE RSI T Y I N E NT HNI CI T Y FRO M 1900-1990
White 250000000 Black American Indian, Eskimo and Aleut Asian and Pacific Islander Other Race

200000000

NUMBER OF PEOPLE: POPULATION

150000000

100000000

50000000

0
1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990

PERIOD OF TIME (YEARS)

There is significant steady growth in the black racial populations. The white race shows a significant increase over time also. The populations of the other races seemed to stay around the same area for about 70 years. When 1970 hits there seems to be more of a significant growth in the other three areas where numbers start to grow.

Part B: The question as to why we draw lines has been discussed to very controversial extremities. Biologically, it is debated that we do it because we have to. But why do we do it culturally? I think that we classify differences by what is seen. We are visual, territorial and judgmental creatures and we use the visual differences around us as an excuse to divide ourselves. In todays society, diversity and acceptance is promoted. Difference is embraced yet we are all well aware of its existence. In older time, it was promoted that difference shouldnt exist and people unlike us were savages or animals. That idea caused death which lead to more violence over the years. The idea of fear of the unknown and fear of difference is embedded into the core of our beings. This is why we still draw the lines that we do.