There is No Such Thing as Race

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capricornone

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Black, white, olive, brown, fair, ginger, brunette, grey, tall, short, thin, fat, handsome, pretty, ugly, old, young - all just descriptions.

I think that it's only when you automatically associate negativeness with any of those attributes that there is an issue.
 
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CaramelFudgetD

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Eventually I think over time, the people will have the same kind of skin color. As statistics show, that we are going to be taller (above 6 feet eventually), lonely (lack of social skills from computers), medium toned skin colored people (a balanced shade from black and white people).
 
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VegasBoundApr08

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Race and nation are human constructs which in the scheme of things are meaningless.

What if humans can someday change their skin color like they currently can with hair color? That could have a profound affect on notions of race. Aesthetically speaking I think it would be kinda cool.
 
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sekcy

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With the technology going up so fast, I think virtuality, is going to be the next big hit. That will definately have a large effect, on the appearances and etc, that we could change.

That's something definately to think about.

Our real identities is our souls I believe. We occupy bodies as a physical appearance in this world. It's likely that everybody was once a different person in the past.

Race for one thing won't have mattered, only that we have characterized it as a way to distinguish people from different nations.

It's almost like a type of selected breed from a dog.

I like breed instead of race. Then breedism sounds less worse than racism.
 
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AlvaDaGansta

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It is precisely because these things are human-constructions that they are given meaning by humans. I think you will probably find that most people define themselves in the first or second instance within and against categories of race and nationality (sometimes secondary to sex or gender).
 
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flamingo

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WOW. The Asian group looks more similar to the African group, the White group looks totally different from either the African or Asian groups.

What would Samoan's be classified under, if you just
take away the whole label "Pacific Islanders"......
 
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e_friendship

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Indeed. If the expression of tribal identity (race, nation, religion, class, etc.) is limited to peaceful activities like sports then tribalism wouldn't be a problem. Unfortunately tribal feelings reach their peak when in conflict with another tribe.
 
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amberw

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So where do the family / genetic predispositions end and the ethnic ones begin? My family has a predisposition toward heart disease; African Americans have a predisposition toward sickle cell anemia--why does race have to be brought into it? People with these ancestors have X, others don't as much... or people from this area tend to have X, these don't. You see, you can talk about this without mentioning race.
 
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Privatee

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Afro Caribbeans have this as well if a kid has one sickle cell gene it gives a level of immunity to malaria, 2 you have the disease. and the gene that causes it has been traced back to one European Family from southern France who were involved in the slave trade. So it is not a function of race but can be considered a higher risk for a racial group.
 
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GREENSTAR

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"African American" is an ethnicity in American terminology. How would you refer to such a predisposition without mentioning it?


In "People with these ancestors have X, others don't as much... or people from this area tend to have X, these don't." you only avoid mentioning race by not using any specifics.
 
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