Race is socially created

I found it really interesting that in a foreign country, people actually applied to legally change their race. While this doesn't initiallly make sense in America, race is a social construction. We discussed the possibility of someone's race changing on an airplane because different cultures interpret races differently. If skin color is an indication of race than it's certainly hard for people to determine what race I'm part of, especially if you throw my last name in the mix. Some say Hispanic, some say Black, some say Middle Eastern; hardly anyone gets my true origins right and says Russian. While race has never directly affected me, I've witnessed and been a part of stereotyping based on race during track season. We all expect the Black kids to run the fastest and be the best athletes, but why? Is it their race, their heritage, their nationality? None of it really, becase race is a social construction and doesn't determine what kind of person or athlete you are.