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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The amount of the human genome which varies between ethnicities is actually quite tiny, there’s no speciation happening, we’re all one race. It’s a social construct which allows cliques, gangs and tribes etc to choose who’s in and who’s out.
The fact that we’re a monoculture, to use a farming term, is evidenced by how quickly the pandemic spread.
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