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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Follow up question. Is that notion mostly a US idea? It seems weird to me to think in terms of continents. African encompasses some 54 countries, 4 dependencies, has Arabs, White people, and many specific groups of Black people. Yet we seem to want to round it off. It leads to some serious confusion. I had a person insisting with great conviction that all Africans spoke “African.”
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