What does it mean that race is “socially constructed”?
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The physical characteristics of “race” are just slight evolutionary differences our ancestors acquired based on their environment (dark skin near the equator, light toward the poles, smaller eye openings in the tropics etc etc).
These differences mean very little in terms of who we are as people. It is only society, collectively, that decided that each race is a separate entity, needing to be thought of separately.
It is an idea made up by society that the races are any more than trivial genetic differences.
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