I know that humans made the race classification system purely out of racist intent, which would make it a social construct, right?
But that made me think of how in some instances, different races (or ethnicities I’m not sure) smell different from other races. Wouldn’t this point make race a bit of a biological/genetic concept too?
I apologize in advance if I sound ignorant, but I really want to be educated on this topic.
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There is a biological/genetic component, there are objective differences between different lineages. Hell, there are differences between you and your mam.
When people group others by ‘race’, what they’re doing is picking an arbitrary trait, at an arbitrary point, and saying ‘aight, that’s far enough’. There’s no need to pick those traits or points to differentiate people, we just do it ^((because racism, but that’s a different conversation)).
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