I’m currently educating myself about racism and anti-racism, and I keep reading that “race is a social construct”. I see how much subjective social views condition our ideas of different races. And yet, people from different places have certain traits that are quite obvious, and shared in common. If I’m not mistaken, that can apply to more than just visible things – things like susceptibility or resistance to certain diseases, if I’m not mistaken. Obviously no one deserves to be mistreated for any of these traits. But what I’m reading and what I seem to experience don’t add up. Anyone able to clarify things for me?
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Race as a concept is nothing more than a generalization of genetic traits which were loosely dictated by geography. Genetics are of course real, and our understanding of genetics is scientific,but the fact of the matter is that if nobody came up with the concept of racial groupings then they would not exist/
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