What does it mean that race is “socially constructed”?
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The standard answer (which /u/Xstitchpixels gave) is that the genetic/phenotypic differences between people are small. Therefore race is just a social construction, not a real natural category.
However, I don’t think that’s the correct answer. I think that *even if* there were huge genetic differences between people, race would still be socially constructed. Any category invented by humans is a social construction, even if it’s based on huge genetic differences.
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