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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People from different ethnical backgrounds have common traits with a genetic causes, there’s no arguing about that (color of skin, form of the face etc.).
The point is that the difference by consensus aren’t really big enough, and not clearly distinguished enough to divide humans into different races.
People from different ethnical backgrounds have common traits with a genetic causes, there’s no arguing about that (color of skin, form of the face etc.).
The point is that the difference by consensus aren’t really big enough, and not clearly distinguished enough to divide humans into different races.
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.
Ethnicity isn’t a social construct, race is. Racism is when you lump different ethnicities together based on skin colour and make generalisations about the people you’ve put into that ‘racial’ group (usually negative ones).
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)).
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)).
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.
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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