Answer:
The two statements which best identify the central ideas seem to be:
1. Race is taught rather than born into someone.
3. Comparison is a helpful tool for framing one's identity.
Explanation:
Dalton Conley (1969) is a sociologist who grew up being a white boy in a community of African American and Hispanic people.
In the excerpt we are analyzing here, Conley explains how<u> race is something that we learn from society</u>. For instance, when he was a child, he wanted to have a sister so badly that he kidnapped a black girl in the playground. <u>As a child, he didn't even know or care about the fact that he and that little girl belonged to different races</u>. It was only later that he learned that he was white and that it meant he was privileged.
<u>He also explains that comparison is what helps us frame things as well as ourselves:</u>
<u>"There is an old saying that you never really know your own language until you study another. It's the same with race and class."</u>
<u>It is through comparison that we find similarities as well as differences. </u>Conley, for instance, compares his experience as a white person to that of Europeans and finds that they are quite different.
C. They provide a way to organize individuals into political groups.
Political parties are formed of groups of people who have similar political ideals and then work together.
A is incorrect because the first political parties did not develop until after the writing o the Constitution.
B is incorrect because although they do do this on occasion, this is not their main goal and is contrary to democracy wherein each individual is allowed to have a say.
D is incorrect because George Washington himself specifically decried political parties in his Farewell Address.
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This seems to be cut off, but I have corrected the parts that are present.
Today Isaac and Evelyn RETURN from their trip to their grandparents, and their parents are looking forward to seeing them.
