Research on Human Migration Patterns

     During class today, I did research on how people move around the world. Some of what I found was actually very surprising. For instance, based upon data from just 2 years ago, the United States has one of the smallest populations of refugees. This really surprised me because of all of the wars going on in the world, I had always thought that people would at first flee to a neighboring country to escape but then make an attempt to get to the US. I can see now that this was a naive assumption, because not everyone can afford to come to the US, and not everyone wants to run that risk.
     I also took a little quiz on "Human Sorting" which again surprised me, but also in a way was not surprising. Now I know I just completely contradicted myself, but allow me to explain. This quiz asks you to classify people based solely on their looks, and to guess their ethnic background. I got mostly incorrect answers which initially I was shocked to see that answers which I thought through carefully were incorrect. But at the same time I wasn't very shocked to know that I was wrong. I'm sure that my answers were very common misconceptions, which goes to show that we can't judge a book by its cover. behind every person's face and skin color is a whole family history.