What it means to be human, to me, means that we can be so versatile in the way we act, think and believe. Many people can think the same, have the same values and beliefs, and can be discriminated or pushed away from society because of race, wealth and stereotypes surrounding them that are false. At the same time we are all different because of what we like and dislike and how we don't think the same as well. There are many good people and a lot of evil people. It seems, to me, that over the past 100 years, humans have been more evil than ever. Over the past century, more people have been killed than any other, mainly over greed, power and because one certain society needs a scapegoat to point out so that it is alright to kill. A certain example of that would be the Holocaust during the late 1930's and early to mid 1940's, when Germany forced jewish citizens throughout Europe into concentration camps, where they killed 18 million total people, 6 million were jewish. We see it in the news everyday. Instead of constantly talking about the people who give their hard-earned money to charity, they show the person who decided to kill a group of people because of their race, the clothes they were wearing, etc. What it means to be a member of the human race is that we are all different, yet at the same time we all have something in common. Some of us succeed academically, and others succeed at physical jobs. In order for us, on this planet, to be a human race, in my mind, means that we must give up our nationalities and countries we believe we are from and just become humans. We are not Americans, we are not Italian, French, German, Hispanic, African, Russian, Asian, etc. We must be just humans, and not judge a person walking down the street because of their race, clothing and even the way they talk. It is their emotions and how they are as a person is how we must judge who a person is, not the exterior that we judge from now.