I know this question sounds incredibly ignorant but i have been trying to understand for some time. My main reason for asking is because if we have dna testing that can show someone’s ancestry is this much % Italian and this much % Korean, how is that a social construct if it’s in our dna?
Please understand I’m not saying race isn’t a social construct, I am just trying to understand how it is a social construct.
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There’s a tendency to think of black people as one race when people from different parts of Sub-Saharan Africa are more genetically diverse from each other than Europeans are from Asians. Aborigines are thought of as black because of their dark skin, but they are not closely related to “Africans”. Meanwhile, Europeans have Neanderthal DNA. In reality what we think of as race is incredibly messy. The notions that people tend to hold in their heads are social constructs and not reality.
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