Answer to Question #133578 in History for van sung

Question

What is gained and what is lost by keeping or letting go of “white identity” or “black identity?” in the 21st century

Answer 1

Letting go of racial identities will help reduce the tendency of some people to treat other races as either inferior or superior to theirs. However, for one whose sense of self is heavily dependent on racial identity, abandoning this identity will lead to a distorted self-concept.