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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It’s not. You only need a whole 5 min to learn how to distinguish people’s races from (e.g.) their bones. DNA only adds up to it.
Now, if you talk about what every single person perceives as white, black, brown, yellow, etc. that’s a different story and, frankly, a discussion not worth having since there’s 7 billion of us, each with a different perception of what it means to be white, black, brown, etc.
It wonders me how you have to apologize 1000 times in 5 lines just to ask a simple question lol. What an age we live in
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