Race is not a social construct, but a biological fact.
Humanity is a species sharing common physical features, however any species is devided into different races who again have specific traits and physical features.
There is no one white or one single black race, rather are their sub-races of these kinds.
Caucasians can be devided into Nordic Aryan, Slavic, Dinaric, Eastbaltic, Westphaltian, just to name the biggest groups.
Negroids can be devided into sub-racse as well, for example an individual from Somalia looks much different from a Congolese individual. (I am not familiar with the names of these races)
Furthermore, just like canine races, do human races tend show various specific behavioral traits.
There is also a major flaw when it comes to the depiction below: When you compare human skeletons, archeoloigsts for instance can easily be assigned to a certain race.
A mongoloid skull will show different characteristics when compared to a Nordic Aryan skull to name just one example. To conclude, we are by far not equal biologically speaking.
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I disagree and this is because why.
In science, there is only one race. Homo Sapien race. In science, race of a human is also a species. We are all one species. We are all 99.9% genetically the same. The.1% is the difference that made our physical differences in order to adapt to environment.
There is no specific gene or DNA that can only be found in a particular ethnic group like black that cannot be found in white or Asian person. We can all reproduce to each other because of our compatibility. We are all the same humans.
The differences we see are just superficial changes, that doesn't mean there is difference races/species.. The difference in skull you have mentioned is a change in order to make a physical shape as part of adaption. Example, In order to make a nose stubbier and smaller, the bone structure will have to change. Just like the finches Darwin saw during his trip. He saw a bird that has longer beak and from one island shorter beak. He was surprised they are both the same bird. A finch!
The reason why a race is said to be a social construct because through out the many years, people have classified races from variation they see or what culture they are from. For example, in the United States. There is a casual acknowledgement that 'hispanic' 'latino' is a race. They are classifying it based on the common culture etc.
What there is, is actually ethnicity. Slavic, Nordic aryan, Anglo saxon, Malay, sub Saharan and so on are not a race. These are ethnicity bonded by similar cultures and physical features influenced by their environment... Science took a look beyond skin deep. Our genes and we are all the same race. 99.9% genetically the same... To prove a point, I could take 'one race' from slavic and put that person in Somalia. His future offsprings would then would eventually conform. Become more and more look the same as the native ethnic people there having been growing up the same culture and environment. In the future his/her lineage would be less and less slavic.
I agree with you that it would be flawed to think all archaeologists could be assigned to one specific race. That is a major insight. I have to think there are archaeologists of all races.
"There is also a major flaw when it comes to the depiction below: When you compare human skeletons, archeoloigsts for instance can easily be assigned to a certain race."
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That was a syntax fail. It was meant to be, "When you compare human skeletons, they can be easily assigned to a certain race by archeologists"
I agree with everyone being different, biologically speaking. I also feel that certain races are better at some things then others, generally speaking but looking at the big pic, I guarantee there's someone out there just as good from every race. Same thing with stereotypes, I agree with a lot of sstereotypes but im not judging every person because of stereotypes or statistics. I feel everyone is an individual. And no 2 are the same. Stereotypes and statistics might be majority of one race but I can bet that at least one of every race falls into that same category. I wish the world was over race already, and people would stop using it for their reasoning, benefits, excuses, judgment, tool. I wish everyone would stop using race to play victim or using it as a power. I wish everyone could just look at ones soul/character and we can just all be our soul/ individual character and not include our skin color as a part of that.
I agree with you, but I still don't care. Also with all the invasions, mixtures and intermarriages that occurred in history and still occurring the limits of race ( and especially subraces) are being distorted so you can't talk about "pureness" of race or whatever that is (I know you didn't mention this, I just wanted to add it).
Well the opinion of the science community for the past 20 years has been that race does not exist. Hell, the American Anthropological Association even released a statement on this subject. So my opinion of race is the opinion of whatever the experts say it is.
There is absolutely no way in hell that you can pigeonhole 7 billion people into simply 3 categories of race (Caucasian, Negroid, Mongoloid) based on nothing but physical appearances not to mention the entire concept of race completely ignores the fact that all humans have some genetic admixture to them. While there are minute differences genetically among the races, don't forget that majority of the genetic differences lie within a given race, not between them.
As for the skull argument, I actually went over this with my anthropology professor, and he told me that when anthropologist assigned a race to a skeleton, they usually are making an educated guess by looking at certain markers and points on the skulls (such as the jawbone) and the reason why they use "racial classification" in observing skeletons is because those are the only labels that we have at the moment that outsiders could understand. When they are not trying to say it in layman's terms, they usually go for geographical origin terms instead since it's more accurate.
Our bone structures are similar, but not exactly the same. Same for flesh, our blood has it's own unique smell and flavor. Our seeds are not the same, we do not produce the same children. Our smell and taste are always different (not cannibalism). Our sweat and tears taste different.
Our taste dislikes or likes and preferences are similar but never the same. Now categories asigned to those through appearances and preferences shouldn't even matter as it is a man made lable by man. If we took back our world from those who limited our choices to be who we choose to be, that would be great. But it doesn't work that way...
If you are born from these, then you are these. If you choose that, then you are that. If you hate or like this then you are this or that. If you want to do that you'll need to do this.
Who among you hate what you are? Or who among you love what you are? Either way, it isn't your choice... You are labled even in death...
You are correct race is biological but I don't think behavioual traits and race have any correlation. It's purely a product of where and how you were raised.
your speaking about ethnicity. It really doesn't matter if you dont believe its not a social construct but its a fact that it is. We are an ethnicity not race.
Human breeds are not the same just as dogs breeds are not the same. It's not about equally, it's more about bloodlines, also you don't have to be the same to be closer to a particular group.
I don't think it should matter, but the left can't help but bring it up. also they almost always support someone of color over a white person. It's ridiculous, and irrelevant.
Agreed. Different races are adapted to the different environments in which they live (or their ancestors lived). Does this many any one better than the other? No. It just means we are all different.
I think it's silly, how are people considered adults when they act like children given this subject matter? Not you, the people who dislike because of color
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but race is a social construct. There simply isn't enough biological variation between us to accurately assigned us to fixed groups.
@Starrk no it isn't. race is created by differences in melanin in the skin and there are different bone structures among races. that's not debatable and literally proven by science and your eyes. if you choose not to believe it, that's on you. if you wanna believe in the tooth fairy as well, more power to ya as well. the only thing he got wrong is the fact that race influences behavior, which is bullshit.
Science proves nothing that you claim so stop making stuff up.
Race and Skin color are not mutually exclusive and bone structure correlate to geographical origin not race. An African with dark skin can easily possess the bone structure of a Caucasian.
So like I said before...
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but race is a social construct. There simply isn't enough biological variation between us to accurately assigned us to fixed groups.
@Starrk this is the same bullshit people use to say that gender is a social construct. if you have a dick, you're a dude. a pussy means you're a chick. if you got both, you're a hermaphrodite and neither is unfortunate. i was gonna argue this and had some points, but i'm not gonna satisfy your bullshit. have a great day, fam
Sex refers to a natural or biological feature. Gender refers to cultural or learned significance of sex.
If you have a penis then your SEX is automatically male. Gender is the component that determines how you as a male SHOULD ACT. If you are a dude then your GENDER dictates that you SHOULD play with action figure (not dolls), play sports (not bake muffins), wear shorts/jeans (not dresses or skirts).
There's a reason why there is a difference between transGENDER and transSEXual.
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