What does it mean that race is “socially constructed”?
In: Culture
Like, while people from different parts of the world look different, the idea of breaking people into categories and judging them differently based on their looks is totally arbitrary.
Are Irish people white? They weren’t considered such in turn of the century America.
The idea of race and how we interpret it is made up, just something society has created. A social construct. There’s nothing backing it up beyond just “people who live closer to the equator tend to have darker skin.”
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