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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I read the comments, sounds like all the answers are confused. The take away is that race is a broad generalization based on geographic evolution. It’s not simply a construct. Skin colour, hair type, eye color, susceptibility to disease, these all form the generalization of race. But I think people are leaning on post modern interpretations when they say race doesn’t exist. It does exist, it exists in the same way breeds of dogs exist.
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