I took a class once regarding Irish-American, African-American, and Mexican-American history. For my final paper I wrote it about how race is a social construc

I took a class once regarding Irish-American, African-American, and Mexican-American history. For my final paper I wrote it about how race is a social construct and how ethnic groups become "white" in the eyes of society through socio-economic gains. My Mexican-American teacher, realizing that I had used his lectures the reading, and my own research on this, did not criticize my data, or my case. He simply attacked my conclusion, calling it the "Book of Mormon Thesis." I am not a Mormon. But where others might have been upset, I took it as a great compliment. If you have to resort to denigrating the conclusion rather than attacking the case, that's a pretty good indication it has value!