If this is a true/false question, I'd say true
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.
The answer to your question is objectivity.
