How is race a social construct?

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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, unless you’re also going to tell me that a dogs breed is a social construct. Honestly you have to be some other worldly type of stupid to even begin calling it that

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