This is possibly trigger warning, but I mean these questions honestly and literally, without any sort of racist implication.
Why do we say that the differences among humankind (such as White, Black, Asian, Hispanic) are attributed to what we call ‘race’, and not, for instance, breed or subspecies? (Like it would be with animals.) We have different traits, such as skin color, build, and disposition to certain allergies and diseases. But yet we wouldn’t say we are a different species, we would say that we are a different race.
But why is the term race never used for anything else outside of humankind? There could be some differences among types of rams, for instance, but we would not say that the rams are of two different races. No, we would say that they are a different subspecies or something like that, even being sexually compatible just like us. And if that wasn’t the perfect example for you, then suppose that two different groups of animals are perfectly and analogously different to each other in the same way two groups of humans are different to each other racially. We would still say that the humans have a difference in race, but the animals have a difference by some other category. Why is that?
Thanks in advance, and again, I’m not saying different races are a different species, I really am just curious as to this whole naming convention. What makes differences among humans racial, but those same differences to other animals would not be racial?
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Well it depends on country. Race is used toward dogs in Polish language, same as humankind.
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