: Why can’t DNA tests and Genetics determine race & ethnicity when it can tell you where your ancestors are from, and if not what does?

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: Why can’t DNA tests and Genetics determine race & ethnicity when it can tell you where your ancestors are from, and if not what does?

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Because race and ethnicity are social constructs and not biologically determined.

That doesn’t mean they aren’t real and have no effect in our society, they very much do. But race and ethnicity are not biologically defined.