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I'm not misunderstanding a thing.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=race
Race can mean so many different things the word has no real meaning. The filters people try to apply to the way they view people in order to group them into "races" so that they can more easily stereotype and/or exclude them are usually based in ignorance. As naughty pointed out, humans do have a need to categorize things. This doesn't make the categories they come up with valid. I find this irritating, but arguing against such a compelling force in human nature doesn't make you popular.
Race is, like one of my favorite rarely-used definitions of your handle, " A fanciful mental illusion or fabrication." At least in the way that most people try to use it.
Originally posted by ChimeraTX@Feb 13 2005, 04:33 PM
I think you are misunderstanding the whole concept called "race." I think the whole idea is that a person has enough ancestors of one particular group (people can be grouped however you like) that they show traits associated with that group. I don't think you can apply cultural or ethnic paradigms to "race", but it seems that will always be the case. A person doesn't need to have 100% ancestry from a certain "race" to be associated (generalized) into that "race." "Race" is a set of cranial measurements, gene frequencies, blood frequencies, and differentiations in bone and muscular tissue. Although simplysaying "race" doesn't exist because we are all "racially mixed" may be easier than explaining the concept of "race" to the common man, it is the same as telling an ignorant person the Earth is flat, or that the Earth is the center of the universe.
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I'm not misunderstanding a thing.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=race
Race can mean so many different things the word has no real meaning. The filters people try to apply to the way they view people in order to group them into "races" so that they can more easily stereotype and/or exclude them are usually based in ignorance. As naughty pointed out, humans do have a need to categorize things. This doesn't make the categories they come up with valid. I find this irritating, but arguing against such a compelling force in human nature doesn't make you popular.
Race is, like one of my favorite rarely-used definitions of your handle, " A fanciful mental illusion or fabrication." At least in the way that most people try to use it.